Casual Birder Podcast
@CasualBirderPod
Sharing the joy of watching wild birds. Official podcast account. Host: Suzy (She/Her). IG: CasualBirderPodcast. #LadyPodSquad #BritPodScene
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What an awesome number of podcasts represented at Global Birdfair this year!
I am honoured to be among them!
Come along and listen!
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. Sparrowhawk vs Robin - I think the Robin escaped
2. Long-tailed Tits foraging for insects
3. Robin taking mealworms from a spoon
4. Magpie trying to get mealworms
5. Wren singing in the garden
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. First of year Yellowhammer
2. Five Wheatear in a farm field - Five!!
3. Learning the difference between the songs of Sedge Warbler and Reed Warbler
4. and hearing both in Essex
5. Two Whimbrel on the salt marsh
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. Shags displaying near Poole Harbour
2. Cetti’s warbler singing loudly
3. Peregrine flying near cliffs
4. Hearing a Barn Owl hiss & then seeing it
5. Spending my birthday out birding & finding 66 species
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1.Beautiful Siskins in the sunshine
2.Learning the call of Brambling then seeing them
And in Dorset:
1. Seeing the 1st Swallows of the year
2. And the 1st House Martin
3. And the 1st Osprey!
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. Lifer Little Gull
2. Wonderful views of a Spotted Redshank
3. Long-tailed Tits building a nest
4. First of year Sand Martins
5. Learning Mediterranean Gull calls - 1st time identifying them
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine -
In France:
1. Red-crested Pochards on a misty lake
2. Black Kite
3. First of year Chiffchaff calling
Back at home:
4. Robin collecting nesting material
5. Rooks collecting food (assumed for nestlings)
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine, all in France
1.Brief view of a Bearded Vulture
2.Marsh Harrier chasing a Carrion Crow
3.Finally spotting a Crested Tit
4.Pair of Crag Martins in their nest
5.Beautiful Rock Buntings chirping contact calls
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
In the New Forest:
1. Goshawks in display flight
2. Single Brambling amongst Chaffinches
3. Crossbill singing from atop a pine
4. Woodlark singing loudly
In the French Alps (so far):
5. White Wagtail - my first!
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. Siskin feeding in the sunlight
2. Bittern booming in the distance
3. Hand-feeding a Rook
4. Watching Long-tailed Tits building a nest
5. Stonechats on bullrushes
It’s the 1st March and a stormy, rainy day here in Hampshire, UK
The first bird I heard was a Woodpigeon calling outside my window
The first bird I saw was a Great Tit
What was your 1st bird of the month?
#1stBirdOfTheMonth
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. Close views of a Little Grebe pair
2. Water Rail calling nearby
3. Red Kites flying around a tree with others perched in it
4. A loudly calling Song Thrush
And…
5. 1st Feral Pigeon ever in my garden!
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. Red-breasted Goose - a lifer (hopefully wild & not an escapee)
2. Male Greater Scaup with Tufted Ducks
3. Turnstones - turning seaweed!
4. Pair of Ravens on the beach
5. Northern Pintail - a handsome duck
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1.Turnstones on a harbour wall
2.Three Spoonbills flying over
3.Firecrest in a conifer
4.First of year Blackcap female
5.Glorious birdsong heard on a woodland walk
Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine:
1. Herring Gull ‘dancing’ for worms
2. First of year Lesser Redpoll
3. And Brambling
4. Goldcrest male displaying to its mate
5. Starling mimicking Curlew and Jackdaw calls
What was your #1stBirdOfTheMonth ?
It’s February 1st!
A calm, clear morning here in Hampshire, UK with lots of birdsong before it got light.
The 1st song I identified was from a Blackbird.
The 1st bird I saw was a Rook, flying in a flock with Jackdaws in the early dawn sky!
THANK YOU for voting in the BirdGuides awards. Thanks to you #TheFeatherSpeech WON Campaign of the Year + came 2nd for the Conservation Hero of the Year after the ACE Wild Justice + swifts got a double look in thanks to Chet Cunago winning Local Hero 😍
🪶 I won't give up🪶
