Fetch Birdwatchers
165 watchers
18 Jun
10:48am, 18 Jun 2024
3,157 posts
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RunningRonnie
Nearly hit a buzzard on my way to work. It flew directly towards the windscreen before rising above the car at the last minute.
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18 Jun
10:52am, 18 Jun 2024
42,138 posts
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Ness
Wow! Sounds unnerving! Glad all was ok in the end.
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19 Jun
9:45am, 19 Jun 2024
4,708 posts
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Curly45
Village cat had another bird thisorning right off the feeder 😠Then graced with a lovely nuthatch for a while so swings and roundabouts. |
19 Jun
9:47am, 19 Jun 2024
5,317 posts
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paulcook
A lovely barn owl in flight on my run last night. Loads more swifts again this morning. |
19 Jun
10:05am, 19 Jun 2024
86,544 posts
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Diogenes
Had a lovely close up encounter with a kestrel this morning. It'd swooped down into some bushes just ahead of me then flew out again when it realised I was coming. There are lots of rabbits live in these bushes.
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19 Jun
10:06am, 19 Jun 2024
86,545 posts
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Diogenes
I guess there are other smaller mammals in the bushes too as, unless it was a very young rabbit, I think they'd be too big for a kestrel to take.
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20 Jun
7:50am, 20 Jun 2024
4,482 posts
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jacdaw
Article in The Guardian, by Stephen Moss, "Fewer swallows grace summer skies in Britain amid changing climate", might interest people here: theguardian.com |
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20 Jun
8:25am, 20 Jun 2024
3,163 posts
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RunningRonnie
We've got hardly any swallows this year and no house martins.
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20 Jun
9:19am, 20 Jun 2024
66,421 posts
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Derby Tup
The last couple of years I’ve barely seen any hirundines and basically have forgotten they are supposed to be here
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20 Jun
9:51am, 20 Jun 2024
5,344 posts
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paulcook
I feel like I see decent amounts of at least swallows and swifts. But it’s probably one of those things where each year you don’t notice how fewer than the previous year. There’s a section of the Tees where I often used to see plenty of activity of martins and swallows darting above the river. But it’s somewhere where I’ve run or walked much less - possibly not even been for last couple of years - and might be a good qualitative test of the decline. |
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