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May 2023
5:54pm, 7 May 2023
3,885 posts
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jacdaw
I wouldn't expect much activity before dusk. That's much further south than me, so I guess there could be chicks already, assuming lots of voles. It does look suspiciously clean, though.
If there are big chicks, you might hear them hissing if you get too close to the box (while bearing in mind they are sched. 1, so don't disturb them).
If it was on my tree it would be full of Jackdaws by now.
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May 2023
7:08pm, 7 May 2023
103,292 posts
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Hanneke
Nightingale at last.
Cuckoo remains illusive.
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May 2023
8:40pm, 7 May 2023
7,368 posts
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um
No jackdaws here, they seem to have been crowded out by rooks. Non stop squabbling all round. (whereas at home they seem to live and mix together quite happily)
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May 2023
9:35pm, 7 May 2023
2,693 posts
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paulcook
1 brief barn owl on tonight's run; and among plenty of song and late activity, one very long blackbird serenade.
Plus a rodent (I think a mouse, though it wasn't far from an animal feed factory so could have been anything) of some description scurried across the road in front of me.
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May 2023
12:59pm, 8 May 2023
4,633 posts
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J2R
Heard a garden warbler on today's run. I always find it difficult to distinguish them from blackcaps, but at one point where I stopped there were a couple of blackcaps singing but also something which sounded subtly different, and I thought it was a garden warbler. I took Merlin out and it confirmed.
Quite a few reed buntings further along, flitting hither and thither.
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May 2023
5:23pm, 8 May 2023
14,474 posts
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HowFar?
I was over at Keenaghan Lough this morning. There was a pair of sandpiper on the shore and a cormorant diving in the middle of the small lough. It surfaced at one point with a large trout. It struggled several times to get the trout turned round, before the fish, weighing over a pound by the look of it, finally disappeared head first into the bird’s gullet. The cormorant swam off, slightly lower in the water than it had been before, perhaps.
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May 2023
8:30pm, 8 May 2023
2,624 posts
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RunningRonnie
Swallows giving a great show tonight. Looks like they are planning to use the same nest spot as last year, which is right outside our sunroom window under the balcony. Amazing for sitting watching them.
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May 2023
10:38pm, 8 May 2023
28,866 posts
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Rosehip
Two swift over Hayfield yesterday and a dipper on the Sett 
Very noisy owls last night too, one very close screecher terrified a 4(ish?) yr old being taken to the toilet block just after dark.
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May 2023
5:10am, 9 May 2023
4,889 posts
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Minnie Mad
My sis, who has taken to hanging around a local reservoir with binoculars and her childhood bird books, told me she remained firmly Team Grebe. And yesterday I joined the team with certainty. although my camera doesn't do it justice. And there's more than one.
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May 2023
6:56am, 9 May 2023
59,426 posts
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Derby Tup
Ace
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