Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
Oct 2021
9:19am, 14 Oct 2021
52,142 posts
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Derby Tup
Nice. More waxwing needed. Ornamental trees in supermarket car parks are hot spots around here too (err, in good years)
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Oct 2021
9:43am, 14 Oct 2021
3,554 posts
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Tim of Fife
Guillimots, Razorbills and Goosanders the order of the day. I hear that Long-Tailed Ducks back too, but haven't seen one yet.
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Oct 2021
8:59pm, 14 Oct 2021
20,062 posts
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flanker
One of the more impressive house ticks!
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Oct 2021
3:38pm, 15 Oct 2021
22,053 posts
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Red Squirrel
Jays in abundance in Greenbank cemetery this morning. They love the holm oaks. More prolific than the other birds at 10:30. Amazing. Easily outnumbered the magpies, crows and wood pigeons, flitting hither and rither.
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Oct 2021
9:34pm, 16 Oct 2021
4,861 posts
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steve45
Kinky, I planted a Rowan tree in my garden thirty years ago; it's 10 metres tall, had loads of berries every year since it was an adolescent but never attracts a Waxwing! Blackbirds love it and eat the berries long before any hungry Waxwing would make its sea crossing! Good luck with yours!
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Oct 2021
9:52pm, 16 Oct 2021
3,874 posts
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J2R
steve45, we have the same thing with a pyracantha bush in the garden. I keep thinking its red berries will attract redwings into the garden, but the blackbirds end up consuming them all before any redwings turn up.
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Oct 2021
10:56am, 17 Oct 2021
4,865 posts
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steve45
I read that Redwings are widespread from north to south but despite perfect low cloud this morning and looking throughout my run, I saw none!
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Oct 2021
11:00am, 17 Oct 2021
52,177 posts
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Derby Tup
A local blogger is seeing redwing every day at the moment. I think I caught sight of a small group yesterday near Guiseley
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Oct 2021
6:17pm, 17 Oct 2021
3,373 posts
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Minnie Mad
Saw a pair of yellow wagtails in flight over a stream yesterday in Northumberland. Beautiful birds with a very distinct way of flying!
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Oct 2021
6:42pm, 17 Oct 2021
3,876 posts
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J2R
Definitely yellow, not grey, wagtails, Minnie Mad? Greys are closely associated with streams, more so than yellows (and are puzzlingly named because they have a LOT of yellow on them).
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