Fetch Birdwatchers
167 watchers
Jun 2019
4:56pm, 7 Jun 2019
31,952 posts
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Derby Tup
Black guillemot 
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Jun 2019
4:57pm, 7 Jun 2019
2,082 posts
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J2R
Yes, can't get excited about gulls myself, either. But have found myself watching their consummate flying skills with great admiration. The way they can hang there in the air and then suddenly swoop and dive and turn around - all very impressive (and considerably better than I can do).
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Jun 2019
12:10am, 8 Jun 2019
16,610 posts
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Chrisity
Running this morning along a 3m wide dirt road with a tall hedge on the right and 3 feet high Rape on the left. There were about a dozen swallows cruising above the rape for the early morning flies, using the road for their turns and flying past on both sides of me at chest height. I felt that i was in Raiders of the Lost Ark when they open the chest.
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Jun 2019
1:50pm, 8 Jun 2019
1,279 posts
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flyingfinn
Noisy creche time on my feeders today. Several visits from Mrs GSW and very demanding junior, first heard them not long after dawn and junior's voice hasn't got any quieter as the day has progressed. Also getting regular visits from Blue, Coal and Great Tit families but the broods don't seem very big this year. Just ones and twos with the odd three. Also we seem to have no Swallows or House Martin nests in the immediate vicinity this year and I'm not sure that has happened before in the 20 years I've been here 
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Jun 2019
9:13am, 9 Jun 2019
22,799 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Speaking of Auks we just had a week away on the North East coast and pipped over to the Farne Islands. Fulmars were my favourite I'd say.
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Jun 2019
9:24pm, 9 Jun 2019
1,369 posts
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Heinzster
Song thrush tonight. It has been serenading me for weeks but this was my first clear view
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Jun 2019
9:37pm, 9 Jun 2019
39,691 posts
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alpenrose
I was looking at some black pheasants this evening and a deer strolled into view. It stood and watched me for a few minutes then strolled off back the way it came.
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Jun 2019
9:53pm, 9 Jun 2019
5,139 posts
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Northern Exile
Loads of what you'd expect up in the Dales today: Curlew, lapwings, golden plover, oystercatcher, meadow pippets, skylarks
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Jun 2019
9:56pm, 9 Jun 2019
32,044 posts
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Derby Tup
Sounds good NE : two unusual flybys in the last few days for me - two oystercatchers (they’re not common here). Then this morning a jay fairly high up directly over the house
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Jun 2019
10:00pm, 9 Jun 2019
1,371 posts
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Heinzster
*might* have seen a Jay at parkrun yesterday. Probably wishful thinking though
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