Bird of the day!

ellen h · #**2081** (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 10:19 AM

Sighted my first fieldfare this morning too

ellen

agrumpycow · #**2082** (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 04:01 PM

Had a surprise visitor to the garden this morning. This fella is the first green woodpecker I've seen in my garden. Even better he hung around long enough for a good look and a number of photos, albeit taken through a double glazed window at a 30ft distance.

seamusagleann · #**2083** (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 04:11 PM

very jealous ,claire ......never seen a green woodpecker !!!!, good picture!!

ellen h · #**2084** (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by agrumpycow

Had a surprise visitor to the garden this morning. This fella is the first green woodpecker I've seen in my garden. Even better he hung around long enough for a good look and a number of photos, albeit taken through a double glazed window at a 30ft distance.

Nice photo Claire

ellen

Pete Collins · #**2085** (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by agrumpycow

Had a surprise visitor to the garden this morning. This fella is the first green woodpecker I've seen in my garden. Even better he hung around long enough for a good look and a number of photos, albeit taken through a double glazed window at a 30ft distance.

That must have been a nice surprise for you Claire! Very good photo, considering the distance and the double-glazing.

pressld2 · #**2086** (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 08:18 PM

Lovely Claire. we've had a green woodpecker visit our garden about twice in the 14 years we've lived here so I can guess how pleased you were!

My bird of the day today was a kingfisher at Crossness NR. There are three perches on the wader scrape and he made successful dives from all of them. A bit too far away for photos so all these are heavily cropped and not Gallery standard...

I caught him diving and although in the second two images he's just a blur, you can still see enough to know that it's a powered dive. Birds like peregrines and gannets just fold their wings and fall but he's flapping like mad on the way down...

Dave P.

Wild-Woman · #**2087** (**permalink**) 20-10-2008, 03:00 PM

My BOTD is a Greater Spotted Woodpecker that cheered up this grey afternoon.

Ollie · #**2088** (**permalink**) 21-10-2008, 07:43 PM

The Kingfisher for me today. Waited around three hours for this bird to show. There were a couple of perches where it regularly sits, one of the perches further away than the other and just my luck it sat on the farthest perch away. My 400mm lens was at it's maximum working limit but at least I got a photo.
Roger

2dogs2000 · #**2089** (**permalink**) 21-10-2008, 08:03 PM

On Friday some rather excited children came looking for me as there was a strange bird on the playing field! It was green with a red head. I knew straight away that it would be a green woodpecker and I was right. It was lovely to share this experience with about 20 children and a few adults who had never seen one before. (No, I don't take my camera to work!!!!!)

At home we are now being visited by a great tit, which is a first in our garden and we have been here for 15 years.