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Apr 2022
10:25am, 14 Apr 2022
39,045 posts
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Purps
Went to turbary Woods owl and wild bird sanctuary yesterday. Saw and held these beauties.
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Apr 2022
10:32am, 14 Apr 2022
907 posts
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riggys99
Just back from a nice few days at Cleethorpes (mainly the humberstone end). Couple of nice runs along the beach and salt marshes. Lots of singing and displaying skylarks from the marshes. One run along the tide line I had ten or so sanderling dashing in and out of the incoming tide like clockwork toys. Quite a few oystercatchers and red shank. A couple of curlew and a few little egrets in slat marshes.
The boating lake had a black swan
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Apr 2022
10:50am, 14 Apr 2022
33,627 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Goldfinches eating my Cherry Blossom.
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Apr 2022
10:58am, 14 Apr 2022
42,072 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Beautiful birds of prey!
jacdaw, what is a foreign partridge? I'll have to go look. I'm in semi rural east central Scotland.  G
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Apr 2022
11:03am, 14 Apr 2022
42,073 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Ah, red-legged is imported from France in 1700s. Hmm, they are pretty brown-ish, small. Is red legs the obvious identifier? If so, I'd say they are not red legged! G
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Apr 2022
11:04am, 14 Apr 2022
55,118 posts
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Derby Tup
RLP is common and really quite a bright looking bird. Grey Partridge sadly now rare and a much duller species. A grey tummy is the thing to look out for
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Apr 2022
11:23am, 14 Apr 2022
3,624 posts
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jacdaw
Red legs are bred and released for shoots, like pheasant, so turn up everywhere. They also have an advantage over grey; they are both ground nesters so predation has a major impact on populations, the grey lays eggs and female incubates, the RL female creates 2 nests, lays eggs, both parents incubate (double clutching (not to be confused with double de-clutching (joke for the older members of the community)).
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Apr 2022
8:55pm, 14 Apr 2022
1,002 posts
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paulcook
Think I saw a wheatear on tonight’s run as well as the usual moorland array, including many beautiful calls or lapwing.
My girlfriend also has a persistent crow who keeps trying to steal an old telephone wire. Not sure if he thinks it’s food or nest material, I’m swaying towards the latter.
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Apr 2022
9:02pm, 14 Apr 2022
55,134 posts
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Derby Tup
White arse
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Apr 2022
9:07pm, 14 Apr 2022
1,003 posts
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paulcook
I was more struck by the chest plumage.
Though, now you say white arse, I managed two prolonged encounters with a roe deer with a very striking white arse!
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