Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
May 2021
9:17pm, 16 May 2021
73,668 posts
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Hanneke
Ahhh, I did think roadkill, pigeons bumping into planes and planes taking off and landing displacing prey.
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May 2021
2:55pm, 17 May 2021
2,299 posts
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Surelynot
I had a lovely weekend walking near Loch Trool and environs. Heard my first cuckoo of the year. Spotted some swifts and a female yellowhammer. Red kites and buzzards. A hare ran in front of us and bounded a dry stane dyke as if it wasn't there. |
May 2021
3:56pm, 17 May 2021
3,230 posts
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jacdaw
Red kites were traditionally city birds (at least according to Shakespeare), and I have to travel to urban Blaydon, near Gateshead from rural Northumberland to reliably see them. Although that might be associated with enthusiastic gamekeepers preventing their spread in this direction from their reintroduction sites in the Derwent Valley, also near Gateshead (and Blaydon).
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May 2021
4:05pm, 17 May 2021
50,174 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve been to Karachi in Pakistan several times and (black) kites are everywhere. I’ve seen them in several other south asian cities too. I was having lunch in the Pearl Continental in Karachi with customers and there was a kite perched on the window sill of the restaurant watching us eat
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May 2021
4:54pm, 17 May 2021
5,481 posts
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TheScribbler
Juvenile starling in the garden yesterday evening. Mrs Blackbird now enjoying a daily bath. And today a goldfinch hopped around the lawn for ages eating all the dandelion seeds 
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May 2021
2:31am, 18 May 2021
2,097 posts
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154 Rob
Male stonechat on coastal gorse and grassland. Co. Durham coast near Easington(location for Billy Elliot). Very smart colours. I like the small birds that all look like "sparrows" at a distance or when they move fast. Often when you get a closer look you see it's something more colourful and unusual. This map doesn't think they are here, but glad to report they are. images.app.goo.gl |
May 2021
12:17pm, 18 May 2021
3,567 posts
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phal
Most fabulous view of a male Hen Harrier this morning.
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May 2021
12:18pm, 18 May 2021
3,568 posts
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phal
Cuckoo as part of a dawn chorus was interesting 🤣🤣🤣
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May 2021
12:24pm, 18 May 2021
50,182 posts
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Derby Tup
Male hen harrier is a special sighting. Did you know what it was on first viewing? I saw one and knew straightaway but another I thought was a large gull, or even maybe a heron. Nice one phal!
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May 2021
12:54pm, 18 May 2021
73,719 posts
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Hanneke
Ohhhh! Nice Phal
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