Bird of the day!

[Sherlock]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

What warbler?

Sorry, it was a Dartford Warbler.

Bird of my day yesterday over the coast path at Westward Ho! North Devon was a Green Woodpecker. Interesting for me to see as it was several hundred metres from any trees and then flew over the cliffs and back again.

[thebeard]

saw my first yellowhammers yesterday, albeit briefly, the sparrowhawk which started making a racket soon scared them off

[johnwray205]

I was surprised by 11 collared doves in my back garden this morning,but i was even more surprised by this Meadow Pipit landing on my kitchen roof.
Definately my bird of the day.

[bornwild]

etherow country park
lots of yellow wagtails
sparrows
tits of every kind by the hundreds
a jay
and 3 nuthatches
lots of wildfoul
including at least 10 manderin ducks lovely to see
weather was good and enjoyed our trip there

bornwild and captaincarot

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by bornwild

etherow country park
lots of yellow wagtails
sparrows
tits of every kind by the hundreds
a jay
and 3 nuthatches
lots of wildfoul
including at least 10 manderin ducks lovely to see
weather was good and enjoyed our trip there

bornwild and captaincarot

Are you sure they were Yellow Wagtails + not Grey Wagtails which also show a lot of yellow? Most Yellow Wagtails will have already gone through on their migration as they are summer visitors only unlike our other wagtails.

[John]

No contest for my BOTD for yesterday as it would be one of those dream birds for any birder. it was a first for Britain and I think only the fourth for the whole of Europe.

It was an Eastern Crowned Warbler that had landed on Thursday at South Shields, County Durham. Thankfully all birders and photographers kept to a respectful distance and that, combined with the non stop movement of the bird conspired, to having no chance of photographing the little beauty.

However, what a back up cast for the day. two Yellow-browed Warblers, a drake Blue-winged Teal and my second Red-flanked Bluetail in a week. The latter I managed a record shot of in the most horrendous conditions. Torrential rain, ground level cloud cover and the bird deep under the tree canopy. Still as it appears to be a first for the Gallery I thought I had better post it onto here.


John

[captaincarot]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

Are you sure they were Yellow Wagtails + not Grey Wagtails which also show a lot of yellow? Most Yellow Wagtails will have already gone through on their migration as they are summer visitors only unlike our other wagtails.

it was a wagtail and it had lots of yellow on it so it got called a yellow, they were a bit too far away for positive identification and chasing each other up and down the river, which suggests that they were indeed greys.

for me it was seeing the 2 nuthatches searching a tree together it's unusual to see one never mind 2 10 foot apart

[TeresaW]

Originally Posted by John

No contest for my BOTD for yesterday as it would be one of those dream birds for any birder. it was a first for Britain and I think only the fourth for the whole of Europe.

It was an Eastern Crowned Warbler that had landed on Thursday at South Shields, County Durham. Thankfully all birders and photographers kept to a respectful distance and that, combined with the non stop movement of the bird conspired, to having no chance of photographing the little beauty.

However, what a back up cast for the day. two Yellow-browed Warblers, a drake Blue-winged Teal and my second Red-flanked Bluetail in a week. The latter I managed a record shot of in the most horrendous conditions. Torrential rain, ground level cloud cover and the bird deep under the tree canopy. Still as it appears to be a first for the Gallery I thought I had better post it onto here.


John

I would have passed that off as a Robin at first glance, well spotted. I saw the reports on the news about the ECW, what a lucky find that was, a few life ticks there I bet.

[Jason Claxton]

Its the humble Long-tailed Tit for me,about 20,all flocking up for the winter ,went through my garden today

[Deer Stalker]

Raven in the New Forest today.