Bird of the day! - Page 67

Kayleigh · #**1651** (**permalink**) 26-03-2008, 02:48 PM

My bird of the day was the buzzard, I watched from my dinning room window..He was too high to photograph though..

smartie · #**1652** (**permalink**) 28-03-2008, 11:12 AM

The most beautiful sparrowhawk that crashed into the hedge 10 feet from my conservatory window and glared at me with his big yellow eyes for not quite long enough for me to grab the camera

before swooping off again. The closest view I've ever had of one, even if only briefly.

Lots of tiny heads popping out of the hedge now as the tits and finches check that he's really gone.

Pete Collins · #**1653** (**permalink**) 28-03-2008, 05:06 PM

Rather belatedly, this Great Spotted Woodpecker is my Bird of the Day for yesterday (though it was back again a couple of times today). It's a fairly frequent visitor, but this is the best photo I've managed so far - I like the photo, as it's a more natural setting than seeing the woodpecker on a feeder.

mrs fish · #**1654** (**permalink**) 28-03-2008, 07:25 PM

That is a nice shot , I like the red of the bird and the berries

MazH · #**1655** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 08:34 AM

I finally had a goldfinch (just one) back on my nyjer feeder...when I first put it up it had attracted some immediately, but this is the first I'd seen this year, and yes, I had ensured it was cleaned out and topped up! I have no idea why they ignored it for so long!
Also saw a jay a couple of days ago, which we don't normally get here.

Gill Catton · #**1656** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 12:00 PM

my bird of the (yester)day was the ten or twelve brambling I saw in Faringdon! I have only seem them twice before and then only as one or two birds but I was stopped in my tracks by a very strange song sounding like a cross between a greenfinch and a water rail now sadly I had decided to take my camera and not my bins on this walk (both are too heavy for a long walk) so I had to wait what seemed like ages before I got a good enough view to id the brambling brilliant - had a smile on my face for the rest of the day. Othe highlights of the walk was a nuthatch making a calll unlike one I've ever heard before - it sounded more like a parakeet so that's another lesson for me and I found a heronry by the unmistakeable chack-chack-chaking of the chicks. A good day

Wild-Woman · #**1657** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 05:12 PM

Ditto Gill- but I have had just one sighting of my brambling, but the great thing is it was in my garden. I'm chuffed to bits!!! A first in my garden too.

Gill Catton · #**1658** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

Ditto Gill- but I have had just one sighting of my brambling, but the great thing is it was in my garden. I'm chuffed to bits!!! A first in my garden too.

wow I have never had one in my garden - or my parents garden - which even had a ring ouzel in it once!

Wild-Woman · #**1659** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

wow I have never had one in my garden - or my parents garden - which even had a ring ouzel in it once!

I had the patio doors open and heard the 'different' song before I saw it. It made me hunt for the source and there it was in our Robinia! I have added a 'not brilliant' shot of it to the gallery when the mods have passed it (or not) of course.
Yep I'm WELL chuffed!

Pete Collins · #**1660** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 09:13 PM

I mentioned on another thread earlier today that I'd only seen a siskin in the garden once this winter. Two hours later ... yes, you've guessed, a siskin on and around the bird feeders in the back garden!

Ollie · #**1661** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

I had the patio doors open and heard the 'different' song before I saw it. It made me hunt for the source and there it was in our Robinia! I have added a 'not brilliant' shot of it to the gallery when the mods have passed it (or not) of course.
Yep I'm WELL chuffed!

And chuffed you should be Jules what a great garden first for you
Roger

pressld2 · #**1662** (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 09:34 PM

Cetti's warbler. Always hear them but never see them. Until today!

Managed a record shot too, this is quite a heavy crop...

Dave P.

Pete Collins · #**1663** (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 01:25 PM

My Bird of the Day (so far!) is this Treecreeper, which I saw this morning while I was walking round the National Trusts's Ashridge Estate (on the Herts/Bucks border).

On the same walk I also saw (but couldn't photograph) Chiffchaff, Jay, Long-tailed Tit and Great Spotted Woodpecker, amongst others.

Kayleigh · #**1664** (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Collins

My Bird of the Day (so far!) is this Treecreeper, which I saw this morning while I was walking round the National Trusts's Ashridge Estate (on the Herts/Bucks border).

On the same walk I also saw (but couldn't photograph) Chiffchaff, Jay, Long-tailed Tit and Great Spotted Woodpecker, amongst others.

I have always wanted to see a Treecreeper. I keep looking but no luck so far. Nice shot.

Pete Collins · #**1665** (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 01:53 PM

Thanks Kayleigh. I was very lucky - I saw the bird fly across the path a few yards in front of me and land on a tree very nearby. It started quite low down on the trunk, gradually going up a few feet, and it was very accommodating in posing for its photo!

I hope you manage to see a treecreeper soon - they are always a delight to watch.

outdoorguy · #**1666** (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 09:40 PM

four red crested pochard at bough beech today.. i'm lovin this extra daylight... james

Jez · #**1667** (**permalink**) 02-04-2008, 03:19 PM

have 2 Greater Spotted Woodpeckers on the bird feeders

(only ever seen 1 before)! I just know if i grab my camera now it will all be in vein

Poirot · #**1668** (**permalink**) 02-04-2008, 03:57 PM

My bird of the day is this Jay, beutiful bluey colour on the wings.

Poirot

P.S. Sorry about the rubbish image but he was on the tree just ahead of me but i disturbed him taking my camera out so i had to take from a longer distance.

mrs fish · #**1669** (**permalink**) 02-04-2008, 05:15 PM

Your lucky to get a photo at all of a Jay as they are a shy bird

Dan Salter · #**1670** (**permalink**) 02-04-2008, 06:34 PM

Looked out of my bedroom window this morning and first two birds i spotted were a pair of Black Caps !!...very nice....a first this year.

Kayleigh · #**1671** (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Kayleigh

I have always wanted to see a Treecreeper. I keep looking but no luck so far. Nice shot.

Iv seen one..

I saw one TODAY YESS

Pete Collins · #**1672** (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Iv seen one..

I saw one TODAY YESS

Brilliant, Kayleigh, well done!

I was lucky enough to see another treecreeper today in Cowleaze Wood, near Christmas Common (Bucks., I think, but it might just be in Oxon. - the Chilterns, anyway!). It was too far off and the light too poor for a photo though.

Dan Salter · #**1673** (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 11:41 PM

2 garden firsts in 2 days for me!!! (pair of Blackcaps yesterday) and this morning....i caught this in the trees next to the house headed for my feeders....so for once i grabbed my camera!!...all shot through the window and cropped hence quality but im chuffed to bits and happy to join the girls in the recent first garden Brambling society!

Dan

RAINBOWRUSSELL · #**1674** (**permalink**) 04-04-2008, 07:26 AM

Had a pair of red legged partridges under my bird table this week - had never seen one in my life before had to grabbed my book!!!
I also have a lot of long tailed tits around which I don't remember seeing since I was a kid - is this the bird we used to call a tit mouse??Or is that one of the other tits?Even at @50 my memory is fading!!x