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Apr 2021
11:53pm, 21 Apr 2021
2,678 posts
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flyingfinn
Lol! 👋 Last time I was at Rufford I saw an Otter in the lake. Stonechat was a bird we thought we might see but we neither saw or heard any today.
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Apr 2021
10:41am, 22 Apr 2021
348 posts
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RooA
Saw the little bird with a black head and white collar again this morning.
I *think* it's a Reed Bunting... but could be a Stonechat. Reed Bunting most likely with the distribution. It didn't strike me as being so pale bellied as the Reed Bunting looks in pictures but I didn't think "it has a reddish belly" either.
Also saw a Lapwing giving a Jackdaw a good seeing to. But I'm not sure it was going to win as the Jackdaw was not for giving up. They divebombed into what I thought was the other Lapwing but turned out to be an innocent Oyster Catcher bystander.
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Apr 2021
11:28am, 22 Apr 2021
49,815 posts
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Derby Tup
There’s no such thing as an innocent oyk 
Reed buntings look a bit like house sparrows in shape and general appearance. Stonechat are shorter and much dumpier. Half a stonechat is its head
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Apr 2021
12:32pm, 22 Apr 2021
351 posts
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RooA
I think it was a Reed Bunting then. A Stonechat would be an odd sighting up here as well I think.
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Apr 2021
12:42pm, 22 Apr 2021
356 posts
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RooA
Oooo. Just seen a pair of buzzards doing a courtship display flight I think. Right above the house.
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Apr 2021
4:26pm, 22 Apr 2021
72,523 posts
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Hanneke
At my client earlier, we had Richard the woodsman to create a clearing in their small wood. Richard: oh, look, a buzzard! It was a Sparrowhawk plucking a pigeon! At 3 metres from us, totally unperturbed. Fabulous!
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Apr 2021
9:42pm, 22 Apr 2021
3,204 posts
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jacdaw
I ran the same route this evening as the other day; today there were two separate fields rammed full with golden plover, plus the usual curlew and lapwing, some very vocal redshank and a couple of oyks.
The wheatear seem to be back in force, and I heard the first snipe of the year drumming (this seems early to me).
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Apr 2021
8:22am, 23 Apr 2021
2,286 posts
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Surelynot
Still no swallows in My corner of SE Scotland.
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Apr 2021
8:25am, 23 Apr 2021
49,834 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve been out for my morning dog walk and thought I’ve still only seen the one swallow. Lovely views of singing blackcap, mistle and song thrush both seen, distant drumming GSW plus a pesky great tit singing an unfamiliar little song reminiscent of pied flycatcher
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Apr 2021
8:44am, 23 Apr 2021
50,297 posts
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alpenrose
Perfect coastal walking day yesterday so I took myself off and managed to identify a few birds: lapwing, redshank, bar tailed godwits, black tailed godwits, oyster catchers, avocets, little terns, amongst others.
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