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Mar 2024
3:20pm, 16 Mar 2024
31,479 posts
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Rosehip
chiff in two places today, two hovering kestrels and quite a few greylags on the farmer's little reservoir
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Mar 2024
6:03pm, 16 Mar 2024
4,337 posts
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jacdaw
One chiffchaff singing between Portinscale and Braithwaite in the lakes today. My first for the year.
And some Ravens on the tops. Obviously.
A Barn Owl and a SEO quite close together near Hartside, on the way home. Not really Barny country, that.
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Mar 2024
8:38pm, 16 Mar 2024
23,549 posts
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Red Squirrel
A very large buzzard. Torrieston never disappoints with dipper/s - saw one today despite the diversion where the bridge was being fixed. Wigeon on grass and pond and v-forms of geese overhead. One oystercatcher. Siskins. Pheasants.
On Wednesday I went up to the forest and there were loads of frogs spawning. Great to see ditches full of spawn and frogs calling out.
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Mar 2024
7:18am, 17 Mar 2024
3,007 posts
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RunningRonnie
Went to a fascinating talk by Hamza Yassin last night in a small venue. He showed loads of photos, talked about how he got started, gave advice... went on for 2 full hours. Very captivating.
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Mar 2024
5:57pm, 17 Mar 2024
41,201 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Heard first chiff chaff along the canal towpath at Chesterfield today 
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Mar 2024
6:14pm, 17 Mar 2024
23,550 posts
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Red Squirrel
I’m staying in a cabin in Moray and just walked home from my uncle’s 1/4 of a mile away as birds are getting ready to roost. Lots of noises and song - like the dawn chorus. I live in central Bristol, so this is a treat and I don’t know where to point my binoculars or what I’m missing to focus on another bird. Saw reed buntings on the way + a GSP drumming on the metal “roof” on top of a telegraph pole - v effective and loud. Other drummers around too. Coal tit again and redwings making fantastic calls and songs. Pheasants everywhere. A bird of prey I didn’t manage to identify as it whizzed past too quickly - falcon-shaped wings in flight. There’s also a duck in a large pond which is inaccessible. May be an escaped as I can’t work out what it is.
Description - russet head, deep grey on back with a white stripe running along top of back. The distinctive bit - yellow block/s on the tail end - a very strong yellow like Nesquick banana milkshake. Something in the pond is also making a laughing call - halfway between a little grebe and a kookaburra; might not be this duck tho’.
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Mar 2024
6:27pm, 17 Mar 2024
5,104 posts
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J2R
Back home now to oodles of chiffchaffs and singing yellowhammer today. Also pretty sure I saw a housemartin. Still in Austria yesterday morning, saw chiffchaff without hearing song (although could have been willow warbler, didn't see legs).
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Mar 2024
6:38pm, 17 Mar 2024
18,262 posts
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KinkyS
Sun's out, chiffs out in the valley today 😀😀😀
Now I just need 'my' house martins to come home...
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Mar 2024
7:35pm, 17 Mar 2024
3,705 posts
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flyingfinn
I’m staying in a cabin in Moray and just walked home from my uncle’s 1/4 of a mile away as birds are getting ready to roost. Lots of noises and song - like the dawn chorus. I live in central Bristol, so this is a treat and I don’t know where to point my binoculars or what I’m missing to focus on another bird. Saw reed buntings on the way + a GSP drumming on the metal “roof” on top of a telegraph pole - v effective and loud. Other drummers around too. Coal tit again and redwings making fantastic calls and songs. Pheasants everywhere. A bird of prey I didn’t manage to identify as it whizzed past too quickly - falcon-shaped wings in flight. There’s also a duck in a large pond which is inaccessible. May be an escaped as I can’t work out what it is. Description - russet head, deep grey on back with a white stripe running along top of back. The distinctive bit - yellow block/s on the tail end - a very strong yellow like Nesquick banana milkshake. Something in the pond is also making a laughing call - halfway between a little grebe and a kookaburra; might not be this duck tho’.
Your duck sounds like possibly a Teal RS. Was it relatively small for a duck?
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Mar 2024
7:38pm, 17 Mar 2024
65,038 posts
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Derby Tup
Teal a great example of knowing relatively size of common birds to use as a “standard”. I think teal probably nearer size of a coot than a mallard
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