Bird of the day!

[bornwild]

magpie and blackbird and 3 collered doves today in garden ..yesterday 2 buzzards and 1 sparrowhawk
1 treecreeper 2 nuthatch and plenty of long tailed great and blue tits sunday the weather was great and the birds came out
ops forgot 2 unidentifyed birds now i think they were fieldfares but could have easly been red wings but was to late to focus in on befor they flew ofski
bornwild x

[Jason Green]

I was out in the garden today, looking on a shed's asphalt roof for insects sunning in what was there of all 14' of it - and suddenly a bird came into view about 50ft ahead, above the road out the front. I believe it was a Kestral, and hovering fairly hap-hazardley at that - flapping around from left to right, not exactly stable I thought... and then it took off

[captaincarot]

first looks been good for me this mrning.

staggered from bed had the usual first look at the feeders from the back bedroom window to see 3 colared doves cleaning up some of the dropped seeds and leftovers from the back table.

then half an hour later opened the kichen curtains to 3 jackdaws on the front feeders.

i've seen the doves sat i the trees inspecting before but not actually eating anything.

[blacknest]

A late afternoon walk in Alice Holt Forest.

Most of the birds had gone to bed but there were streams of Redwings coming in to roost, a huge roost of Wood Pigeons, Robins making their "quiet" alarm call from hiding places in the undergrowth, some redpolls and a very busy flock of Long-tailed Tits.
By the time I got home the Tawny Owls were calling.

Nice experience on a calm, clear afternoon after all our terrible wind and rain

[LynM]

Bird of the day for yesterday was a Red Kite over a village near Sherborne in the late morning.

[blacknest]

Originally Posted by blacknest

A late afternoon walk in Alice Holt Forest.

Most of the birds...

BTW for those not aware already, we're celebrating down here because Alice Holt Forest has been finally included in the new South Downs National Park which comes into being in 2012! Hooray! Well done to all who wrote letters, signed petitions etc

See :Alice Holt Forest Hampshire - Home Page for more details

[partyboy]

my bird of the day has to be the lesser spotted woodpecker which often viisits the in laws bird feeders.

[Jason Claxton]

My bird of the day is a Redwing that was in the garden

[Bwrack]

Two glossy ibis, at Dungeness

[blacknest]

Originally Posted by Bwrack

Two glossy ibis, at Dungeness

That's great! Aren't they very uncommon in Britain?
I remember a day (over 30 years ago) at a lagoon in Tolon, Southern Greece where we had a real heron-fest
We sw grey, purple, night, squacco, cattle egret, little egret , glossy ibis and ....(still I guess the rarest thing I ever saw) a SACRED IBIS which in those days was exceptionally rare further west than the eastern black sea and is now no longer even listed as a vagrant in most European bird books

That's a good memory