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Apr 2023
8:28pm, 29 Apr 2023
31,319 posts
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macca 53
A pair (?) of pied wagtails on the cricket outfield today - unfazed by the match going on around them
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Apr 2023
9:01am, 30 Apr 2023
13,099 posts
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D2
Both of "my" swallows are flying in and out of the barn regularly this morning so I'm assuming eggs have hatched, its really early isn't it? They will have time for another brood all being well! 
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Apr 2023
9:27am, 30 Apr 2023
401 posts
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AJLB
My first swifts of the year this morning - just getting in before May!
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Apr 2023
1:30pm, 30 Apr 2023
4,846 posts
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Minnie Mad
Much excitement, my sister was walking the dog about 5 miles from where I live. Merlin told her that the birds she spotted in the water were Great Crested Grebes. Given that I made a joke of Merlin picking one up in my dawn chorus a couple of weeks ago, but it also picked it up again a couple of days ago I was keen to check it out.
We approached the water as quietly as possible with a dog and two teenagers, and saw what looked like a heron on a tree. It then dived into the water in a most un-heronlike way and came up a long way out, but close enough to see the tuft on the back of its neck. But not the red as it was too far away.
So we think we had a sighting of a Grebe and Merlin was right.
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Apr 2023
1:41pm, 30 Apr 2023
4,847 posts
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Minnie Mad
Plus I saw a pair of missel thrushes at junior parkrun feeding on the football pitch, and we saw a normal thrush, some chiff chaffs, a gold finch, a curlew, a tree creeper, numerous willow warblers (lots of willows around the water’s edge) and we could hear but not see the skylarks. We saw a bird that we thought was a lapwing but its wings were the wrong shape to my eyes. My sister’s Merlin seems to be more sensitive than mine as she probably has a better phone, but it said twice that it was an Oystercatcher. I thought they were costal birds but we could be wrong?
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Apr 2023
1:58pm, 30 Apr 2023
22,902 posts
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Red Squirrel
Two shellduck in flight
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Apr 2023
2:11pm, 30 Apr 2023
59,351 posts
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Derby Tup
A few of us from the club went for a walk this morning at Bolton Abbey. Pied fly, redstart, mandarin, blackcap, willow warbler, common sand, chiffchaff, sand martin, and a young dipper being fed by a parent were among the highlights, plus according to Merlin a great crested grebe in the woods. The app was great in fairness in picking out what we could hear but the grebe thing is interesting
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Apr 2023
4:50pm, 30 Apr 2023
20,916 posts
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flanker
That's not a bad morning DT. Do like a pied fly.
Minnie, you will get Oyks inland at this time of year.
Lots of swallows, crows, jackdaws, on today's run along with a few common finches, wrens, blackbirds and robins. Huge numbers of skylark up on the moors and the sounds of several curlew but, strangely, not a single mippit. I thought I'd got my first swift of the year too, but then it disappeared and many swallows appeared, so now doubting myself
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Apr 2023
5:38pm, 30 Apr 2023
59,357 posts
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Derby Tup
Several oyks heard this morning at Bolton Abbey
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Apr 2023
5:53pm, 30 Apr 2023
4,849 posts
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Minnie Mad
My other sis is an air hostess similarly obsessed with Merlin. She has downloaded the Caribbean birds and reported a bananaquit and a grey kingbird this morning. She's in St Lucia.
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