Fetch Birdwatchers
165 watchers
Apr 2024
8:47am, 21 Apr 2024
10,258 posts
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Northern Exile
Lots of curlews hereabouts, I was treated to the sight of one perched on the garden wall yesterday, I also saw a stoat in our garden for the first time but I guess that's not really relevant here  I have been entertaining myself with the Merlin app and it's helping me identify individual birds amid the cacophony of birdsong we get here. I was amused that it failed to identify the cockerel just down the lane, his owner calls him "Brainless" because he decides it's dawn at completely sporadic points during the day and yesterday afternoon thought it was time to wake everyone up. |
Apr 2024
10:21am, 21 Apr 2024
23,716 posts
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Red Squirrel
NE - other animal spottings good too. I posted about a stoat at my allotment on here. There’s a cockerel in my locality who crows at intervals throughout the day. I find it soothing. He had a sore throat for ages, but is back to full, clear “song” now |
Apr 2024
11:44am, 21 Apr 2024
5,755 posts
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icemaiden
Waxwing still in Milton Keynes. Blimming cold though
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Apr 2024
12:41pm, 21 Apr 2024
243 posts
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tinebeest
Heard the first cuckoo of the year on Wednesday, saw barn swallows on Friday. If only the temperatures would follow suit and be less frigid, we’d all agree Spring is finally here. An oystercatcher was causing a ruckus the other day, patrolling the meadows, and today I saw a stork flying near the castle, I think they have a nest there because I’ve seen one trundling around in a field near there (see pic). There is definitely another couple nesting at the end of my street, and another nest in the next village! Lots of babies expected 😅 |
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Apr 2024
2:49pm, 21 Apr 2024
23,721 posts
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Red Squirrel
Great pic tinebeest. How exciting to see one in your garden. Beautiful bird.
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Apr 2024
2:51pm, 21 Apr 2024
65,525 posts
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Derby Tup
Swallow. At last
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Apr 2024
4:52pm, 21 Apr 2024
244 posts
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tinebeest
Not my garden, Red Squirrel, but it must be quite something to gaze out your kitchen window and see that! We’re very excited about the kingfisher we can see occasionally from *our* kitchen window, I must admit 😆 |
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Apr 2024
5:03pm, 21 Apr 2024
65,530 posts
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Derby Tup
Finally downloaded the Merlin app and it nailed a very loud teacher teachering great tit in a second
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Apr 2024
5:29pm, 21 Apr 2024
4,404 posts
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jacdaw
Sand martin over the house today. First hirundine of the year for me.
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Apr 2024
5:53pm, 21 Apr 2024
2,763 posts
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RooA
Heard the snipe again today! In exactly the same place as last time... and I'd stopped for a wee again. Also saw a kestrel and TWO day-flying owls... probably short-eared owls? Also met a newt. |
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