The Bird Thread

You're lucky, Ruislip's River Pinn only hosts the Grey Wagtail,
(which does have some yellow on it's breast & body).

Yes, they only drop in for an hour or two then head on north. Lovely birds, especially the adults in the spring.

I think I have probably only ever seen one yellow wagtail, in a field here last summer

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I've lived in this house for 16 years and only this year have there been a noticeable number of House Sparrows and Starlings in my garden.
I've just scarified my front lawn and have a Starling sticking his beak into the lawn, as I type this. Good to see.

Nice. You take some crackin shots, photographer?

Cheers Jontea, no I just dabble, really got more into it when I moved out of SE23 nearly three years ago and found myself surrounded by photogenic stuff. The funny think is that my shots seem ok viewer on a phone but they really fall down when viewed bigger - noisy, out of focus, shaky...

Panic Snapped (Settings still setup for the super moon!!) this buzzard. Love a buzzard. I can't help but just stop and watch when i see them. Same for all birds of prey really.

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This morning’s birds included, for the first time this year, sedge and reed warblers as well as yellowhammers, reed buntings, larks, lots of wrens and something with a loud song, maybe a blackcap but it was in dense hedgerow against a bright sky.

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Anyone here able to identify the main bird here? There’s some tit whistling over the top.

We've moved to a new housing estate.
We're very near nature but nature hasn't moved in yet.
It's like there's an invisible barrier to stop all but the most bolshy of birds entering, namely magpies and the odd crow.
The other day a wren came into the garden and I nearly cried.
I put a couple of feeders up yesterday I can't stop watching them.
I've had no visitors.
High overhead there are kites, buzzards, gulls, ducks, geese.
A heron lumbers past once a day like a Chinook.
The swallows have just arrived and scream above us, all at the margins of the 'bubble', never coming too close.
I keep watching my feeders.
Waiting.

Get yourself a decent pair of bins. It’s next level bird watching!

And a good pocket book too.

Blackcap is the bird I reckon you’re listening to.

Thanks @adroit, someone else has suggested this. I could just make out a shape flitting around in the hedgerow. In other news, swallows and house martins have arrived.

I also saw a red kite over my garden a couple of days ago. It was really low to start with and then picked up height. I thought it was a buzzard initially but then realised that it has a forked tail so had to be a kite. A lifer for me.

A mate who lives down the road from me (and is a proper birder who knows his stuff) saw a white tailed eagle from his garden 2 days before that! Sadly I didn't see that one.

Good day in the garden today, buzzard getting harassed by jackdaws, red kite (unusual for these ends) and peregrine, soaring on thermals in a clear blue sky. We have sparrows and starlings nesting in the house too.

I was heading out for one of my loops out through the Chilterns this afternoon, so inspired by @Ludd and @jdp I switched off Gamin, slowed down a bit and bird spotted. Fantastic spring afternoon, empty villages and country roads - such strange times. Anyway, the list: Red Kites (loads, perhaps 20 or 30 in a freshly ploughed field just outside Woodcote, it is the Chilterns after all), Buzzard, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Pheasant, Crow, Rook, Jackdaw, Magpie, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Whitethroat, Balckcap, Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Linnet, and Corn Bunting (a local highlight and somewhat of a rarity).

Top birding/biking! A corn bunting is a nice one.

BirdAlert have recorded a black kite in my county in the last few days so obviously I keep looking up as it's bound to come over my garden as an Easter treat... :)

Enjoying the BirdNet app which records the birdsong and then gives you the most likely cuplrit, some of the most common birds have been surprising me with how nice their song is

Whitethroats arrived here this morning.
When I first came here they arrived every year on April 22.
Then a few years ago they started to get a bit earlier. This is the second earliest date I’ve ever found them. None at dawn, then one at 07:30 and by the time I walked home there were 5. They’ve possibly flown all the way from Namibia to spend the summer in a patch of scrub on the edge of an English town. Remarkable little birds.

Ah, nice! I only met whitethroats last year for the first Time. Here is a bit I captured: https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/whitethroat

Ignore the cover picture of the yellowhammer - that’s just what I used for that day’s “playlist”

I HAD A BLUE TIT ON THE FEEDERS!!!
Insignificant to some, massive to me.
Well chuffed!

Buzzard on a post down the road, buzzard flying off the post. Saw TONS of kits on my MTB ramble this morning.

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Blue tits are great. Lovely colourful birds.

What foods are you putting out? Peanuts always bring in the tits. I picked up some niger seed as I couldn't get the usual mix, and we're now over-run most mornings with goldfinches.

Honestly. What the fuck is it with jays?
You see them. They see you. They wait. You get your phone out. They fuck off.

This photo and the wren amongst blossom. Both lovely and memorable. Also your brimstones on the other thread.