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Jan 2022
11:32pm, 13 Jan 2022
53,731 posts
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Derby Tup
I thought for a second I heard an oystercatcher today but I am fairly certain it was a pesky starling
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Jan 2022
11:43pm, 13 Jan 2022
3,086 posts
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flyingfinn
One lone Oystercatcher has turned up at the res this week. Not quite the earliest record but close. Must be looking to get first dibs on the nest sites.
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Jan 2022
10:24am, 14 Jan 2022
5,764 posts
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TheScribbler
Not a bird, but a beautiful adult fox crossing the road in front of me this morning.
The garden has been full of starlings this week too.
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Jan 2022
10:26am, 14 Jan 2022
53,737 posts
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Derby Tup
Singing wren and (briefly) blackbird this morning
The sun is out. Will I get a mistle thrush on my lunchtime walk?
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Jan 2022
11:16am, 14 Jan 2022
84,406 posts
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Hanneke
It has been very cold at night here but warm and sunny during the day. Lots of bird song and an increasing amount of robin's in all gardens I look after. They are definitely pairing up...
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Jan 2022
4:55pm, 14 Jan 2022
3,089 posts
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flyingfinn
Three Swan Friday. I was out signing a race above Hathersage when I got a text saying there were 8 Whoopers and 13 Bewick on the res (plus usual Mutes). Managed to get back in the light and the Bewicks were visible as soon as I parked up, the Whoopers took a 2 min stroll to find 😀 Whoopers are irregular visitors but not unusual visitors, these were my first of the winter but I have seen 35+ in the past. Bewicks though haven't been recorded here since Nov 2013 and I think these may be the first I've seen ever but certainly since the birding I did up until my early teens.
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Jan 2022
6:36pm, 14 Jan 2022
17,975 posts
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KinkyS
Loads of lively and noisy garden/hedgerow birds of all the usual varieties on the lower valley slopes today. And then a bonus male stonechat in his brightest and best pulling pants perched on a wall a bit higher up. Looking resplendent. He definitely knows 
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Jan 2022
6:52pm, 14 Jan 2022
53,743 posts
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Derby Tup
Bewick envy here. If I’ve seen some it would have been on a YOC trip getting on for 50 years ago Whoooopers seen last winter on local reservoir
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Jan 2022
9:33pm, 14 Jan 2022
3,090 posts
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flyingfinn
DT that is almost the same situation I was in until today. If I've seen them before it was at least 45 years ago.
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Jan 2022
9:21pm, 15 Jan 2022
4,038 posts
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J2R
Saw lots of whoopers in Northern Ireland around Christmas, but Bewicks are a rarer thing altogether. I saw them on the Ouse Washes a few years ago, but not since.
Today's highlight was lots of fulmar on the cliffs at Hunstanton, north west Norfolk. Curiously it's a bit of the local coast I'm not that familiar with, so I hadn't seen them there before. They were obviously in pairs, obviously in nest sites, or potential nest sites. I was surprised to see this so early in the year. Is this a fulmar thing? Also lots of oystercatchers and curlews on the shore and in nearby grassland.
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