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Apr 2021
7:22pm, 20 Apr 2021
3,385 posts
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phal
Earliest cuckoos we’ve had were in the Langdale Valley.
Our local reserve had four Cuckoos calling the other year - we had one sitting right outside a hide too in a tree and another fly right past us. Very lucky! Right place, right time!
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Apr 2021
7:49pm, 20 Apr 2021
3,203 posts
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jacdaw
Saw the first common sandpiper of the year today, by the river, and the pair of oystercatchers are back on their favourite breeding spot. I think they were scared off last year by the increase in walkers last spring.
And finally this evening a field full of golden plover in summer plumage.
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Apr 2021
7:58pm, 20 Apr 2021
1,757 posts
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Heinzster
Gannets tonight diving in Belfast Lough😊
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Apr 2021
11:14pm, 20 Apr 2021
2,280 posts
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Surelynot
I could watch diving gannets for hours. Can't wait to get back over to Arran to see them again.
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Apr 2021
11:22pm, 20 Apr 2021
20,771 posts
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Rosehip
Until last year I would have said the last third of April for a cuckoo or two here and more or less been able to tell you where to sit for an hour to see one.
last year not a single call. Haven't heard one (yet) this year either.
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Apr 2021
8:25am, 21 Apr 2021
72,464 posts
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Hanneke
Still no Cuckoo here...
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Apr 2021
8:28am, 21 Apr 2021
49,793 posts
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Derby Tup
Cold morning here and no sun. Several loud chiffs, a few willow warbler but no blackcap. Blackcap seem thin on the ground after a good year last year
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Apr 2021
8:33am, 21 Apr 2021
4,538 posts
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steve45
Thanks to a cloud covering a few migrants have been grounded..first two Common Whitethroats of the year singing locally.
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Apr 2021
6:12pm, 21 Apr 2021
20,735 posts
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Carpathius
I want to be a birdwatcher, but am rubbish at identifying them 
Today in the big park I saw a bird shaped like a pheasant, the size of a biggish blackbird, with a yellow throat with brown speckles, pale grey underneath and browny-grey on top. Can't for the life of me remember what colour its beak was (so not anything that stands out).
It was on the ground by itself, hopping about in a wide grass area.
Could it have been a fieldfare?
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Apr 2021
6:27pm, 21 Apr 2021
2,674 posts
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flyingfinn
It could have been, we still have a few here. Though it sounds more like a Song or Mistle Thrush? Mistle are the larger of the two and Blackbird size. Song are a little smaller.
Day out in Sherwood Forest for me. It was ticking along nicely, lots of Chiffs, Blackcap, WWs, a displaying Tree Pipit, Goldcrest, Redstart when there was call along the lines of a Green Woodpecker but not quite right. After some searching we found and got great views of the culprit, a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 😀 a new life tick for me and an increasingly rare one for anyone. Ironically in an area abundant with both GSW and Greens it was the only woodpecker we actually saw all day.
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