Fetch Birdwatchers
165 watchers
5 Feb
2:15pm, 5 Feb 2024
4,228 posts
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paulcook
Disturbed an owl at close quarters when I finished my run in the dark on Saturday night, but still (life) waxwingless too.
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6 Feb
3:16pm, 6 Feb 2024
4,618 posts
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Curly45
Slightly cheaty as we were at the Bird Cafe in Hathersage, but Nuthatch and tree creeper at close quarters while eating lunch 😎
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6 Feb
3:19pm, 6 Feb 2024
32,894 posts
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HellsBells
Can’t quite believe what happened today - I was walking into town talking on phone to Youngest and telling him I was jealous because he saw crossbills at the weekend. I then heard a noise we both instantly recognised, looked up and saw about 30 waxwing in the mistletoe in trees on the other side of the road!. They flew off pretty quickly but absolutely made my day 
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6 Feb
3:21pm, 6 Feb 2024
4,620 posts
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Curly45
Great HellsBells 😍😍😎
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6 Feb
3:35pm, 6 Feb 2024
5,034 posts
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J2R
Fantastic, HellsBells! I have mentioned this before, but my first ever sighting of waxwings was when I stepped out of my front door at my former house, heard some interesting bird noise and looked up to see a bunch of them on the TV aerial of the house opposite. They subsequently moved down into a silver birch tree in my front garden.
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6 Feb
3:44pm, 6 Feb 2024
64,250 posts
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Derby Tup
Brill
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9 Feb
8:59pm, 9 Feb 2024
4,265 posts
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paulcook
Some extremely vocal and loud owls on tonight’s run across the moors. I’d say in at least 3 different pieces of woodland though I’m not sure how far the calls carry so the 2nd and 3rd cacophony may have been the same. Never heard such loud and prolonged calling.
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9 Feb
10:06pm, 9 Feb 2024
4,283 posts
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jacdaw
First curlew call of the year today; they must be starting to return to breed. There have been reasonable sized groups of lapwing here for a couple of weeks now, with the same plan in mind. And today I counted a group of more than 30 Chaffinches picking about under my garden feeders, with more in the hedge. Siskin and Goldfinch on the niger feeder, and on the burdock seed heads. Lots of Greenfich and LTTs. A brief visit from a female Sparrowhawk, kept them on their toes. |
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9 Feb
10:49pm, 9 Feb 2024
64,283 posts
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Derby Tup
Magpie carrying nesting material this morning near Exeter
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9 Feb
10:54pm, 9 Feb 2024
4,267 posts
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paulcook
The only conclusion I was making were the owls were mating calls too. There was definitely flirting going on the first set I heard.
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