Bird of the day!

[Pete Collins]

My Bird of the Day is a Goldcrest, which I just spotted in our front garden - the first time that I've seen one here.

I happened to look out of my bedroom window, and saw that there was a Wren and a Blue Tit flitting around the front garden. I then noticed another bird that immediately struck me as being at least as small as the Wren. I kept my eye on the bush into which it disappeared, and soon spotted it again - definitely a Goldcrest! It stayed in our garden for a while, then went into a next-door neighbour's Holly bush, before flying off to a garden further down the road.

I can't rival John, but it brings the list of birds I've seen in or from the garden to 39.

[Ruth Daniel]

Nice one Pete,always nice to get a Goldcrest in the garden.....is it me or is there a lot about at the mo?

[Reptilian]

Pied Kingfisher.

Technically it doesn't count because, 1, it was 3 days ago and 2, i was cruising down the Nile at the time.

My bird of today and in this country is a Robin that was happily picking through leaf litter in our garage.

[Bwrack]

My bird of the day today was, at Bough Beech in Kent,it was the Great Northern Diver which has been there for a while..it spent some while feeding or searching mainly underwater, then, it was on the surface quite close to us preening etc..a first for me...

[Pete Collins]

Later on this morning I again looked out from my bedroom window, to see if the Goldcrest had returned. It hadn't, but I was delighted to see this Redwing in our neighbour's tree - only the third or fourth time I've seen one from the house/garden (don't think I've ever seen one in our garden).

Sorry for the poor photo quality - it was through double-glazing and from about 30 feet away.

[Jez]

I spotted in Naomi's garden an immature Goshawk, a first for me!

[pressld2]

Nice one Jez - I've never seen one.

Dave P.

[Pete Collins]

Well done Jez, that's a good bird to spot! Like Dave P., I've never seen one.

[Jez]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Nice one Jez - I've never seen one.

Dave P.

Originally Posted by Pete Collins

Well done Jez, that's a good bird to spot! Like Dave P., I've never seen one.

Thanks Dave, Pete! I'm very happy about it. It came in after pigeons, fortunately for them they got away, so it landed on the lower branch of a Lime tree adjacent, just giving me enough time to ID it before it took off through the wood!

[Gaina]

I'm a bit late with this one, but on Monday I finally saw our first Fieldfare of this winter in my garden .