Bird of the day!

solus · #**3941** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo

Any other day It would have been my first ever bewick swans, or even my first ever marsh/willow tit but today it went to my first ever nullfinch, been trying to see one for 3 years!

I've not seen loads of those!!

Nullfinches. Nuffink Warblers. They're everywhere!

Sorry. Way past my bedtime!

Ukwildlifeo · #**3942** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by solus

I've not seen loads of those!!

Nullfinches. Nuffink Warblers. They're everywhere!

Sorry. Way past my bedtime!

Really - you should have gone to Penning today, You couldnt move for them

lol I should really check what Ive written before pressing 'post'

Ukwildlifeo · #**3943** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by blacknest

My younger son , who is no birdwatcher, came home the other day from a trip to London really excited about how close he got to one of them. He thought it was a model until it moved. He has a pic on his phone. If I can work out how to get it onto my pc i'll upload

Thats great to hear

After seeing how excited kids get with a rabbit that disappears before they get close, I'd love to take a school trip to Regents Park to see how they react to tame herons, and the grey squirrels that climb up your legs!

Pete Collins · #**3944** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 08:44 AM

My Bird of the Day is the Jay I saw in our apple tree this morning. It's the first Jay I've seen in the garden for at least six months.

And I'm glad to say we are now getting Goldfinches every day on our Niger feeder.

Deer Stalker · #**3945** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 12:08 PM

Male Hen Harrier quatering the heath on the New Forest this morning. Other Highlights were Dartford Warblers & a few flocks of Crossbills .

Pete Collins · #**3946** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Collins

My Bird of the Day is the Jay I saw in our apple tree this morning. It's the first Jay I've seen in the garden for at least six months.

And I'm glad to say we are now getting Goldfinches every day on our Niger feeder.

Changed my mind! My Bird of the Day is a Red Kite (

), the first one I've seen here in Kensworth this year.

Jason Claxton · #**3947** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 03:49 PM

Merlin,Loads of Redwing and Fieldfare,plus a wintering Chiffchaff within a few miles of my house.

Ukwildlifeo · #**3948** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 03:55 PM

Since the firecrest(s) gave me the slip again, it goes to the nice mute swan that posed on the lake as the sun set

aeshna5 · #**3949** (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 07:59 PM

Lots to choose between today having visited Slimbridge. Looking out into the fields seeing several hundred each of Golden Plover, Lapwing, Teal + wigeon with smaller numbers of swans, geese, other duck + other wader species- a real winter scene. Add on the hunting Peregrines + Buzzard sending up clouds of birds.

But the real highlight before swan feeding time + in recent days quite a few new families of Bewick's Swans have arrived from the continent on favourable winds. It was magical to see + hear these birds sorting out their pecking order with wings being fluttered + heads + necks nodded with plenty of sound too. Lots of action + then tens of thousands of Starlings wheeling into roost- it's estimated c70,000 birds are roosting here.