Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
May 2023
8:04pm, 1 May 2023
14,468 posts
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HowFar?
My first cuckoo of the year today - near the River Drowes.
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May 2023
8:28pm, 1 May 2023
3,869 posts
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jacdaw
SEO this evening on the moor. I'm sure they breed in the same spot every year. No cuckoos, swifts or merlin here. No black-winged kite either. |
May 2023
9:10am, 2 May 2023
59,385 posts
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Derby Tup
Finally got a cuckoo this morning. Usual moorland birds too : curlew, oyk, skylark, mipit, common sand, reed bunting
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May 2023
9:47am, 2 May 2023
4,557 posts
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Reiver
A single Swallow spotted on Sunday. Stopped my bike ride yesterday lunchtime to watch the Lapwings across the fields.
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May 2023
10:50am, 2 May 2023
403 posts
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AJLB
I enjoyed the Merlin app telling me I had both Carrion and Hooded crow today - do they even sound different? Maybe a Scottish or Irish accent?
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May 2023
4:14pm, 2 May 2023
4,625 posts
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J2R
Lovely weekend in and on the edge of the Peak District. Friday evening around Etherow Country Park with its gorgeous mandarin duck population. Saturday morning, after watching a nuthatch on a feeder, sat in a cafe overlooking a river where dippers sallied back and forth, grey wagtails frolicked and a kingfisher flew by. Then an upland walk in the afternoon with lapwings, curlews, wheatear, my first swallows of the year and willow warblers singing all around. Dark Peak walk Sunday, more curlews, linnets, oodles of willow warblers. Yesterday my first whitethroat of the year, more nuthatches. Back home and the sedge warblers have now really opened up on my regular run. |
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May 2023
5:37pm, 2 May 2023
59,388 posts
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Derby Tup
Sounds great J2R
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May 2023
6:59pm, 2 May 2023
7,713 posts
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Pothunter
Having heard a (greater spotted) woodpecker regularly in the park recently I finally got to see it today  Quite high up but a good view showing off its profile and red butt.
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May 2023
7:15pm, 2 May 2023
14,469 posts
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HowFar?
I heard my first grasshopper warbler of the year on the way home this evening.
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May 2023
7:50pm, 2 May 2023
18,170 posts
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KinkyS
I am still failing on cuckoo, and neither of my gropper haunts have proved fruitful yet either A colleague who lives 1.5 miles up the road reported swifts yesterday - surely it can't take a swift that long to fly a mile and a half?! |
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