The Bird Thread

Yes maybe! Thrush-like markings but smaller? Not the one on the right, wrong beak.

Redwing in my garden

& chaffinch

Jay comes in pretty much everyday now. He likes peanuts.

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Saw a Cormorant devouring a pretty hefty fish today in the Olympic Park.

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and a Wren (nearly hidden), an Egret, a Heron and a Teal duck (one of a pair). They were all in the same sewage rich remnants of Channelsea River in the Olympic Park.

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Amazing shots - that looks like a jack pike! And might that wren be something else, a chiffchaff maybe?

Thank you, it was very lucky! Here's a close up. I can't be sure about the Wren, I saw a similar looking one earlier too.

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Ah, definitely wren. And pike. Wow. I’ve seen a cormorant tackle an eel but a pike is in a different league.

Wow, amazing!

Got the feeder camera running today here's a couple of the visitors, it has already got nearly 100 video clips and 2,500 stills, hoping to get a nice time-lapse from it later.

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Pheasant hanging out at the back of my garden and a redwing chowing down on my holly bush

Not much going on down the local lake. Enjoyed the Gulls on ice though.

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In a few days on my local patch I’ve had Water Pipit, Yellow browed warbler and Dartford warbler among lots of other more common birds. For a site well inland and half a mile from a town centre it’s been pretty amazing.

Lovely shots.

Lovely photos everyone, thanks for posting!

Beautiful morning's walk today - Kite, Jackdaw & a gull

Lovely pics all around.

I've changed to a fisheye daytime lens on the bird feeder cam, set-up much closer too (almost too close really).

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Not sure what it is that I have seen the past few mornings in the QEOP, near the hockey centre, but it is definitely some sort of bird of prey.

Anyone else local seen it?

No photos, no description, CSB

Comon. Pics or...

I've been out running at the time. I'll see if I can find something on Google photos

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/-/media/biodiversity-action-plan-monitoring-report-2016.ashx%3Fla%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwjg-72RpY_uAhWS4IUKHff5A_wQFjABegQIBBAK&usg=AOvVaw1bBzopfhWA7_BHLono5-ZZ

Excuse the mega link. Kestrel or sparrowhawk perhaps.

That's cool. Are you logging your visitors?

I did see something strange like that a couple of weeks ago in the trees between Timber Lodge and the Lea but didn't have a camera. Something hawkish at a guess, but I'm very new to this.

I'm not in any official sense, we get Blue, Great, Coal, Sparrow, & Robin mostly. The Long Tailed Tits were in front garden a couple days back which is about as exciting as it gets. Been here nearly 10yrs and Goldfinches are around but very rarely venture into our garden. Attempts to grow teasel to encourage them have failed too :(

Goldfinches will charmingly eat from a feeder, yes, the collective noun really is 'a charm'.

Our garden is charmless. I did have a Nyjer seed feeder for a while but still no takers.

Sods law there'll be a goldfinch in the camera stills when I go through them in a bit.