Show us ya birds !

[Stubby]

Seeing a few more birds again now on my feeders . Great tits , blue tits and lots of long tailed tits . A few chaffinches but most of all my gold finches are back in numbers . The usual sparrows , starlings , collard doves etc .

[Peasgood]

Nothing on my feeders recently, I think the sparrowhawk has scared them off. Did see a bluetit the ther day for the first time in weeks.

Out and about today I saw a charm of goldfinch, must have been 50+.

[peds]

That's amazing, I didn’t know they lived that long. 

[Peasgood]

Yeah goldfinch are ok at that, it's the tits that don't age so well

[AJStrees]

On 10/08/2024 at 17:09, Stubby said:

My friends cut and bailed most of their hay but had to stop when the weather broke . They finished it off last week and working the 33 acre field I counted 14 red kites 2 buzzards and a hawk ( I think a peregrine ) The kites were flying about head height most of the time . They were there for about a week and have dispersed now only seeing one or two now . 

Its a great spectacle seeing the birds of prey when the tractors are out. I got some nice shots of the kites flying about at harvest time. Will post a few shots up for ya.  

[AJStrees]

A few fairly recent birdies:

 

 

[Bob_z_l]

Finally.   They're back again.

Our friends from overseas returned as a pair yesterday.

 

Always a happy day when the barn swallows return.  
Pics to follow when they settle down and get a bit slower.

 

[sime42]

It's a good time for birds out there at the moment, they must be loving this weather as well.

 

For those with the Merlin App: go on then, show us your totals! I got 13 earlier today.

 

This was at 10.00, reckon I could've got more earlier on.

 

 

 

 

[sandspider]

Is that 13 birds in 9 minutes?

[sime42]

13 birds in a 10 minute recording. 

 

I think the 9.08 time was just where it was highlighting a particular one. I was listening to a Linnet as I wouldn't have a clue of anything about that bird.