Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
Jan 2020
1:15pm, 27 Jan 2020
3,705 posts
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steve45
"my" regular Long Tailed Tits arrived five minutes after my GBW hour! Best bird was a Bullfinch. A meagre ten species with a total of only 17 birds. City life! But..just a half a mile run from my front door, a pair of Stonechat this morning. As for Dunnock--in my garden I've had three on rare occasion. I refer to singular Dunnocks as "a Dunnock"..it makes me smile when people refer to "the" Cuckoo etc. I suppose if something is a scarcity then one would say (for example) that "The Bluethroat" is still in such and such place.... |
Jan 2020
2:00pm, 27 Jan 2020
2,525 posts
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12barDavid
A female pheasant has just wandered across our front garden. I’ve seen them when I have run over the Kingston Gorse & the Goring Gap, but never in our front garden. I think I will have to have my camera on permanent standby. |
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Jan 2020
3:17pm, 27 Jan 2020
14,942 posts
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Rosehip
we often get pheasants in the front garden - nightmare with a springer in the house! he always knows when they're there
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Jan 2020
1:55pm, 28 Jan 2020
1,611 posts
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Surelynot
Another sighting of a treecreeper in my front garden. I get one occasionally. Always a welcome visitor.
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Jan 2020
9:14pm, 28 Jan 2020
1,971 posts
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Pothunter
Cheating slightly but a visit to Cape Town got me a few nice (even if not particularly special) birds. Hadeda, Sacred Ibis, Cape Eagle Owl (relying on a friend for ID as all I really saw was a dark shadow), Cape Spurfowl (which I used to know as a Francolin), Orange breasted sunbird, Cape Robin, Redwinged starling (which shat on my sister’s arm!), helmeted guineafowl, black oystercatcher, African penguin (heard only)
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Jan 2020
8:53am, 29 Jan 2020
5,365 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
The garden birds are starting to warm their voices up for spring. Definitely a chaffinch singing this morning and something else I can’t identify ‘cos I’m rubbish at it 
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Jan 2020
9:04am, 29 Jan 2020
3,710 posts
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steve45
Won't be that many to choose from Fragile..I had Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin this morning. No Dunnock or Wren...these are the only songsters with a decent song. Great Tit and Coal Tit aren't that melodic. Hope to see that huge Redwing roost on Winterwatch this week.
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Jan 2020
9:05am, 29 Jan 2020
3,711 posts
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steve45
..and Chaffinch as you said! Occasional Greenfinch, but again not a melodic song.
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Jan 2020
9:09am, 29 Jan 2020
37,710 posts
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Derby.Tup
Wren a possibility?
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Jan 2020
9:18am, 29 Jan 2020
5,366 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Might have been a dunnock or wren, I’ve also heard a robin and a bluetit since I posted.
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