Tell me your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week.
Mine - in Suffolk
1.Listening to Nightingales
2.Seeing a pair of Turtle Doves
3.Watching 2 Bitterns interact in flight
4.Stone-curlew at RSPB Minsmere
5.Seeing our first Swifts of the year!
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. 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. 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 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!
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Pied flycatcher 20+
2) Redstart
3) Wood warbler
4) Raven
5) Whinchat
Casual Birder Podcast OMG where do I start for this week #Top5Birds wish it was top 10 or 15 😳
1) Merlin hunting & catching Skylark
2) Peregrine stealing Skylark
3) Tawny owl roosting
4) Bearded (Tit) Reedling in reeds
5) Mediterranean gull
Support cast Barn owl, Knot, Scoters, Hen Harrier, Geese
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy belated birthday wishes here are my #Top5Birds this week
1) Blackcaps seemingly in every bush
2) Pochard males in their finery
3) Sparrowhawk disrupting
4) Reed warblers hiding
5) Robin nesting in our Ivy
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Bullfinch (5 in one tree)
2) Woodlark
3) Barn owl
4) Marsh tit
5) Red breasted merganser
All from 1st day of a Norfolk trip
Casual Birder Podcast My #Top5Birds this week are all from a short break in Norfolk this week.
1, White-tailed Eagle, Holkham
2, Water Rail, Titchwell
3, Crane, WWT Welney
4, Tawny Owl, Sculthorpe nature reserve
5, Shore Lark, Holkham
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week included
1) Redwings berry guzzling
2) Common Snipe probing
3) Teal sweeping
4) Cetti’s loud & proud
5) Long tailed tits bumbling
Casual Birder Podcast Nice list Suzy a couple of my pals went to #Welney & #WickenFen this week as well both great reserves my #Top5Birds
1) Green woodpecker
2) Grey wagtail
3) Long tailed tits
4) Red kite (3)
5) Teal
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds included
1) Lapwing
2) Green sandpiper
3) Green woodpecker
4) Chiffchaff
5) Teal
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Northern water thrush (ditto)
2) Lapwing flock flying over my workplace
3) Peregrine speeding through
4) Grey Wagtail walking on ice
5) Long tailed tits on work feeders
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Lesser scaup…. Lifer
2) Goosander … 3 close up males
3) Avocet
4) Grey plovers
5) Bar tailed godwits (hiding in among Black tailed godwits
Casual Birder Podcast Hey Suzy sorry I’ve not been contributing recently to the #Top5Birds but here are mine for this week
1) Nuthatch on feeder at work
2) Mandarin pair (NFY)
3) Lapwing “peewitting” display
4) Blackcap
5) Green woodpecker “Yaffling”
Casual Birder Podcast #Top5Birds
1. First Swallow of year
2. first House Martins of year (around 20)
3. the distant laughter of a Green Woodpecker
4. Blackbirds singing in the evening
5. Willow Warblers singing
Casual Birder Podcast #Top5Birds
1) Kingfisher on #WaterOfLeith
2) Sparrowhawk above my street
3) First autumnal mixed flock of tits and finches
4) Robin's first autumn song
5) Two Woodpigeons in and out of a conifer
Casual Birder Podcast #Top5Birds so far (all at @RSPBArne )
Marsh Harrier
Firecrest
Purple Sandpiper
Water rail
Avocet (lots)
and of course every time I mooch down to the harbour the White Tailed Eagle is somewhere else :)