Show us ya birds !

[Bob_z_l]

1 hour ago, Billhook said:

Our Swallows seem to have done particularly well this year in spite of a very late start.  The was a gathering of maybe fifty or more around the yard and many were lining up on the electric wire as they would normally do in September.  Have not seen a House Martin.

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Ditto. Had 3 pair sitting this year up from the usual 2 pair. After  late start they are on to their second clutch of eggs by the look.

Fingers crossed the weather doesn't put the mockers on it.

[Ratman]

Dad had a red squirrel on his bird feeders yesterday! Tried to get a picture but it bolted! Hopefully it will be back again. A lad at work that lives over the other side of the railway to him and on a different estate less than 1/4 mile from him as the crow flys also had a red in his garden! Hope we see more in the future!

[Doug Tait]

No pics but was working near a river today and saw a buzzard drop vertically into the water and emerge with a fish! It got up a few metres and shook the water off like a dog before heading to the trees nearby. Didn't know they hunted in the water, was quite a sight.

[5thelement]

10 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

No pics but was working near a river today and saw a buzzard drop vertically into the water and emerge with a fish! It got up a few metres and shook the water off like a dog before heading to the trees nearby. Didn't know they hunted in the water, was quite a sight.

That must be an Osprey surely?

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, 5thelement said:

That must be an Osprey surely?

White tailed sea eagle perhaps ?

[Doug Tait]

Are they not bigger than buzzards?

It seemed like a buzzard, see them every day here but not the eagle or osprey. As it left the river it made directly for a small wood where there is a buzzard nest so just assumed that's where it was going. Never associated them with fishing though so I may be wrong!

[5thelement]

20 minutes ago, Stubby said:

White tailed sea eagle perhaps ?

I don’t think you would mistake a White tailed Eagle for a Buzzard, they are huge in comparison.
I used to see them a lot when I travelled home on the boat from Skye to North Uist. I have never seen a WTE in England, I have seen Osprey in Scotland and in Cumbria, and Buzzards don’t hunt fish.

[Stephen Blair]

If you think you've seen an Eagle, it's usually a Buzard!  You'll know when you see a White Tail!  

[Doug Tait]

14 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

I don’t think you would mistake a White tailed Eagle for a Buzzard, they are huge in comparison.
I used to see them a lot when I travelled home on the boat from Skye to North Uist. I have never seen a WTE in England, I have seen Osprey in Scotland and in Cumbria, and Buzzards don’t hunt fish.

Thanks 5thelement, it definitely caught a fish so I guess I saw an osprey today!

[5thelement]

1 minute ago, Doug Tait said:

Thanks 5thelement, it definitely caught a fish so I guess I saw an osprey today!

That is a very lucky sighting indeed. I’ve seen a few on the water fishing but never seen one actually catch. Fantastic.