The Bird Thread

A Owl

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Noisy tawny owl just now deep in a copse of trees

I applaud this on many levels. Album cover style, correct form of indefinite article, a actual owl.

Appreciated thanks. I hadn't really looked at the picture in that sense, but I'm now getting Bonobo / The Cinematic Orchestra / Boards of Canada gatefold inner sleeve from your suggestion.

Please start an ambient electronic band called A Owl and complete the circle.

Travelled to RSBP Radipole today. Saw some marsh harriers, sand martins, greenfinch and this chap greeted us at the cafe window. Loads of dragonflies about too. Off to Lodmoor tomorrow.

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Spotted at Lodmoor: Sparrowhawk, Marsh Harrier, Great Egret, Little Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Lapwing, Sedge Warbler, Godwit, Oyster Catcher and swallows

Anyone ID this one from my walk the other day. 'Long duck' is about the best I can do. Runner, maybe?

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The perfect heron fishing apparatus.

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Hmm.

Juvenile Coot / Moorhen?

Tiny visitor

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I found what I think is a Goldfinch feather at the allotment

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Reed warbler taking a banded demoiselle back to its nest this evening. I wonder if it has a cuckoo demanding big meals.

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Stop it, you're traumatising @Ordinata

My cousin gave me that Damselfly many moons ago as a pristine metallic corpse and I photographed it to be enshrined in LFGSS forever.

Obviously already dead inside. B4 it was cool.

Aren't birds cool
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1825528467078734228?t=1V8dn42vKAxoZI8CZrEveQ&s=19

That's amazing. Quite humbling really.

It's a bit shit when you can't get a job locally.

I like this bit particularly, as it reminds me of the finding a few years ago that pigeons follow roads and were observed going round roundabouts a couple of times before they found the right exit. :)

Apparently she turned right at the source of the Nile and followed it, but after that deviation she returned to the same longitudinal line she started.

Some bird pics from my recent Scilly islands trip.

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After following a female sparrowhawk along the cycle path on the east shore of Loch Lomond I was using our shiny new binoculars to scan the slopes of Ben Lomond and was treated to a lovely clear view of a white-tailed eagle. Apparently a pair has been seen in the area since March but it came as a surprise to me.

Lovely spot.

In Suffolk for a week. We are surrounded by house martins, they line up on the roof and then swoop down over our heads. Wonderful. Apologies for the terrible phone pic. - they are so quick, hard to catch them on camera.

Also saw a green woodpecker earlier.

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Just stepped outside to take a break in the back garden. Stopped to observe a little sparrow in the fat ball cage feeder thing I have in a lilac tree in the corner of my garden. As it took flight, a sparrow hawk bombed past - maybe a foot above my head - and smashed into the lilac tree. Disappeared in a flash, no idea whether the sparrow made it or not.

Was camping on Brownsea Island over the Bank Holiday weeked. Spent some time in the Dorset Wildife Trust hides, albeit with a a noisy 5 year old and a 3 year old, so couldn't spend long before they started making noise! Lots of spoonbills, oyster catchers, cormorants and others.

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Love the Cormorant?