What is the first flying bird that you set eyes on?

[Deb London]

To take part, go to the nearest window and record the first bird that you see flying in the sky (not just flying tree to tree, but flying in the open). Then add your record to the poll.

If you can ID the species, want to say what type of habitat it was flying over or want to add any other details, please record these too.

Just a bit of fun.

[Lance Morgan]

nearly always a woodie or dove. Now if you said last seen flying mine would be a duck or goose.

[Gill Catton]

house martin outside my bedroom window this morning

[pammosley]

Hi Deb, I love your carefully worded title
Mine was a pigeon, town suburbs by a park. Loads of pigeons!

[Ben Orme]

Wood Pigeon

[Deb London]

Yes indeed Pam.

You're looking for the birds seen in the skies. Moreover, the very first one that you see when you decide to look.

I think what prompted me to start this thread was the fact that whenever I do a spot of birdwatching and look upwards, it's invariably a Wood Pigeon that I see first.

I wondered what other people would see.

[rossy]

after all the birds scattering into the bushes , a sparrowhawk is circling up above. rossy.

[Hedera]

Seagulls flying home to the local tip! Same time every evening.

[Miss Caretaker]

I really expected it to be a wood pigeon but just to prove me wrong a flock of starlings flew over the house

[Jonners]

Great idea for a thread . Mine was a Lesser Black Backed Gull... when I decided to look.