The Bird Thread

Distant Cirl Bunting having a bath

Dartford Warbler near the Needles on the Isle of Wight. Also Goldfinches and some others I didn't identify

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Prawle point I presume?

Linnets and Meadow pipits are the unidentified ones.

Aha, thanks. Also pretty sure I saw a Peregrine although no photo. Great morning for a wander. I thought the pipit was maybe a song thrush but I stand corrected

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Second one is a meadow pipit.

Close, Berry Head

Not many photos but also had guillemots, razorbills, fulmar, rock pipit, shag, gannet, linnet, firecrest among others (plus non-birdy dolphins, seals, porpoises, eels)

This Shag on the nest was not house proud and absolutely stinking

Fulmar

Buzzard trying to blend in, in the woods

Close, Berry Head

That’s a success story. I haven’t been there for years but they were confined to a very small area when the conservation work started, when I last went. I see they are now spread all along that bit of coast! Berry head is a fair way away.

Apparently they have at least three breeding pairs but more over winter there. They have found that the first brood normally fails so this year they took the first brood off the nest and hand fed them at Paignton zoo before releasing them on the Lizard peninsula to increase the range. Farmer at Berry Head now plants a field of oats or barley and leaves it for them to over winter on, draws in a lot of yellow hammer and finches as well. Paid for by a local developer as part of the planning permission. Also built a barn just for the greater horseshoe bats.

Also in Epic Win

https://twitter.com/batsy09/status/1533567930335645701

That is mental!

Corner of eye movement whilst wfh made me think we had a nest in the back garden, turns out we do.

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My son found this nest in the crook of a tree trunk the other day, cool to see them so close up (briefly). Blackbird?

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Looks Blackbird to me.

They hatched here today. Parents constantly under pressure from Magpies, trying to keep our distance to reduce stress but it is right by the path & shed plus we're keen to scare off magpies on their behalf but they don't understand we're on their side. This pic is a 10x zoom point & run effort.

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Put some worms out this morning and a family of starlings gobbled them up. There's 3 young'uns.

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Birdsong (including a cuckoo) from my office window this morning

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Chuck update, Blackbird & Grebe action.

Edot: the Grebe chick was brilliant to watch as it chased around singing as parent kept diving and then popping up elsewhere.

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Love the formating and res.

There were seven red kites mucking about over our house this morning.

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Bit of skylark singing action

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Ah, I forget they look just a bit shit on tiny mobile screen, but probably magnitudes worse a monitor. 10x zoom on phone isn't going to win me wildlife photographer of the year for sure.

Spent a chunk of the evening watching goldfinches singing in the trees, listening to the swifts bomb around overhead. Crappy photo as the light had gone, but whatever.

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Took my daughter to the Farne Islands this weekend - when we went last year the puffins had already left, and she was sad because she loves puffins. she wasn't disappointed this time.

Will post some more in a bit