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Jul 2022
5:59pm, 3 Jul 2022
5,453 posts
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steve45
There's been a solitary Whooper doing the rounds this last few weeks!
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Jul 2022
7:33pm, 3 Jul 2022
56,022 posts
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Derby Tup
Kinky has one as a pet in Calderdale
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Jul 2022
7:48pm, 3 Jul 2022
223 posts
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forever
Wonderful evening at the quarry in Trimmingham, North Norfolk where there are seven bee eaters nesting. I saw and heard two of them, along with a kestrel and three swifts. A very informative RSPB guy is part of a group doing 24 hr watch.
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Jul 2022
8:25pm, 3 Jul 2022
6,237 posts
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um
Another SWCP walk, with the big lens for blogging later. Besides the seals, lots of mipits & ropits (?), plenty of kestrels, and a family of linnets (mum, dad and probable youngster).
Rumours of peregrines, from other walkers, but none seen or heard.
Cormorant feeding baby cormorant. With an audience of gulls trying (and failing) to grab the food. Seems cormorants beat gulls in bird top trumps.
And lots of fairly mature baby gulls makinbg a lot of noise.
Fulmars heard but not seen - well, not without abseiling over the side.
Plus loads of stonechats. And a few more warblers/whitethroat types yet to be identified, and a lot of general 'small brown birds', unable to capture on film (or file) or to id.
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Jul 2022
8:30pm, 3 Jul 2022
56,024 posts
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Derby Tup
Watching swifts from my brother’s back garden. A real treat especially with noisy oyks passing by from time to time too
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Jul 2022
8:55pm, 3 Jul 2022
4,259 posts
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J2R
forever, seriously tempted to make the trip up to Trimingham myself, not too far for me. Bee-eaters are fabulous birds.
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Jul 2022
10:21pm, 3 Jul 2022
224 posts
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forever
J2R I shall be making more visits as only 15 minutes from me. The RSPB guy said if you can get there early morning you are more likely to catch them in all their glory as the sun catches their feathers. He said from their activity the eggs could possibly be hatching in 1-2 weeks. If any of that helps.
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Jul 2022
11:59am, 4 Jul 2022
2,565 posts
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Surelynot
Saw a red kite fly over my street yesterday evening.
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Jul 2022
12:59pm, 4 Jul 2022
2,200 posts
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Roberto
Certain I saw a polecat sprint across the road near Carlisle on sat morning. Was too big to be a weasel or stoat but was definitely a mustelid and colouring meant it wasn't a mink.
Visited my parents. Their bird feeder is much better than mine which only gets goldfinch. They had nuthatch, redpoll, blue, great, coal tits, sparrows, chaffinch, goldfinch, pheasant, and woodpecker.
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Jul 2022
2:20pm, 4 Jul 2022
90,799 posts
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Hanneke
I am working in my "food forest", wild area at the back of my garden and it is absolutely heaving with birds, bumble bees, butterflies.
The usual suspects but also saw some new ones so tonight I will be looking things up.
My controlled wilderness is certainly coming into its own this year! ☺️
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Bird song watch
Jul 2024