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  • Great pics! Cranes are fucking awesome. Saw a massive flock of them wheeling in South France last year. Mistook them for flamingos at first (justifiable mistake, there were a lot of flamingos in the area), took a while to realise that they were all the wrong shape. Proper giants.

  • Cheers - with subjects like these, it’s hard to go very wrong (and I can delete the 90% that are wrong).


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  • Woah.

    Thread levelled up. 😎

  • Brief view of a Little Owl today, also first garden warbler and reed warblers of the year

  • Blimey, looks like a busy day…great shots!

  • The swan picture is lovely. We got to watch the Cooper's Hawk eviscerating a small bird today.


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  • Little wander around the Lea Valley near Fishers Green.

    Didn't get a picture but the hilight was probably a long tailed tit nest.

    Juvenile cormorant had chosen to fish the rapids


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  • New flat is on 6th floor with several mature oak tree canopies right outside the windows. Had a front row seat today of 4 fledgling long tailed tits huddled on a branch about 8 feet away being fed by their overworked parents.
    Unfortunately cameras are not kept here until we finish renovations.

  • Nesting pair in bluetit box, much excitement

    We had blue tits last year but have since cleared a patch of overgrown buddleia/rose which they used as a lookout before flying into the box so I don't think they will be in there this year. Saw some sparrows inspecting it though so maybe we will get lucky.

    Our garden was a bird heaven but completely unusable for anything when we moved in - just overgrown head high brambles everywhere. Feel a bit bad for clearing it but we kep telling ourselves we need to be able to use the garden and will put back things that are good for wildlife. Already got pond skaters and other aquatic beetles in the (new) pond for example.

  • Just spotted my first swift of the season flying over Peckham

  • I got excited yesterday evening as I saw the first two of this year over our garden. We’ve put swift boxes up on the local church so hope they may get used!

  • Brief spoonbill view yesterday but flushed by birders who ignore site rules about access

  • Brief Lesser Spotted Woodpecker this morning, cuckoo heard, redstart, stonechat, lots of warblers, very nice

  • Question about birds on my peanut feeders.

    Usually they are mobbed by various tits (and a woodpecker) but of late they seem deserted. Are the tits finding proper food to feed their young at the moment?

  • Possibly the case, maybe the chicks need squidgier food not hard food like nuts (choking hazard maybe or just can't digest?)

  • Yeah think they don't want to feed there young nuts. We've got birds coming to the feeder for seed and meal worms that never normally come to the feeder

  • Just spent a good half an hour in the park opposite my house watching an owl (tawny, I think) feed one of its young. The other baby owl was nearby, giving it large with the “where’s my dinner?”

    Managed to peg it back home to get the camera, but the light was shit and both batteries ran out pretty quick (turns out I had not charged the spare one like a dumbass) so who knows whether I got anything decent, but fucking hell that was crazy. I was only going to the pub!

  • Ah, thanks. I'll put out more mealworms :)

  • Ok, not the best photos but you get the idea


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  • ^ brilliant

  • Love the owls!

  • Got pi camera on nesting box (at a distance) this morning


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  • Can't get enough Tawnys - great shots.

  • Found an elaborately assembled pigeon nest yesterday next to a doorway at a factory


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