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Jun 2021
7:24pm, 9 Jun 2021
2,099 posts
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154 Rob
Took a different route into Leazes park earlier and had a good view of a colourful male bullfinch perched in bushes.
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Jun 2021
6:22pm, 11 Jun 2021
1,974 posts
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bonners
Lots of herring gull chicks through the holiday park, will no doubt soon be updating the seagull attack thread. One of my mates has posted a picture from his run, has already had quite a bad attack, three went for him, his whole head is blood red
Have to say I have a sneaky admiration for a bird that will go to those lengths to protect its young
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Jun 2021
11:11am, 12 Jun 2021
1,975 posts
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bonners
Great run this morning, took in most of the different local habitats and saw most of the regulars I see. Song thrush, buzzard, blackbirds, goldfinches, Reed buntings, swifts, swallows, housemartins, wren, larks, greenfinches, robin, shelducks, little terns, little Egrets, kestrel, chiffchaff and when I got home the blue tit pair were on the feeders feeding a fledgling. Only the one unfortunately, but from what I've heard, not a great blue tit year, so one successful fledgling is still a success
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Jun 2021
6:30pm, 13 Jun 2021
5,513 posts
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TheScribbler
That’s a great variety bonnets.
We had three new to us sightings today as we spotted reed bunting, reed warbler and sedge warbler.
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Jun 2021
8:36pm, 13 Jun 2021
3,667 posts
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J2R
Ran a grim half marathon race in hot conditions this morning, the misery a little alleviated by the frequent singing of yellowhammers, whitethroats and, at one point, a cuckoo.
bonners, I was watching a blue tit feeding a single chick in the garden today. Yes, small brood, but a success nonetheless.
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Jun 2021
9:02pm, 13 Jun 2021
14,320 posts
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HowFar?
There were a few mayflies hatching on the River Drowes yesterday. There were also some damselflies (banded demoiselle) - the males look like they have a big thumb print on their wing. A heron stalked around for a while and a dipper bobbed around on some rocks up at the top end of the river, where it flows out of the lough.
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Jun 2021
9:19pm, 13 Jun 2021
50,535 posts
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Derby Tup
Nice report HF?
We did a group run this morning and I was just smiling to myself about the willow warbler singing one side of the path and the blackcap on the other when someone said what are those birds? I was was desperate for a chiffchaff to make the set up but it wasn’t to be. Still some curlew and lapwing about plus two singing skylark
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Jun 2021
8:30am, 14 Jun 2021
1,977 posts
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bonners
In Devon visiting the folks, highlights from this morning's run were the swifts.
Also saw a peregrine with a gull chick I presume being chased by gulls, went out of sight before I saw the outcome of the chase
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Jun 2021
10:13pm, 14 Jun 2021
76,437 posts
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swittle
At Crosby, two mature black swans were sharing the boating lake with 30 or more of the white swans and assorted water birds. A pair has visited twice in the last 18 months, from Martin Mere, it is thought. The feathers along their backbone are wavy, with what looks like a 'parting' along the spine. Their bright red beaks added to their grace & beauty. 
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Jun 2021
10:42am, 15 Jun 2021
8,528 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Bullfinch in the garden. It’s already on my list as I had a brief sighting of one a couple of years ago, but I was starting to doubt myself.
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