First bird of my day: a Great tit whizzing from a shrub to a tree. Zoom. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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Zoom, yeah …here it’s Vroom as the full bird Flotilla we’re up early to feed, bathe and dance before the sun got truly hot. Baby Blackbird just edging it as first one #Firstbirdofmyday
jun 22, 2025, 10:47 am • 8 0 • view
Blackbird singing outside our caravan. Such an evocative song.
jun 22, 2025, 8:58 am • 9 0 • view
First bird of my day: a startled woodpigeon, desperately trying to fly up and away through the trees as I came through the squeeze stile in the wall. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jun 22, 2025, 10:56 am • 7 0 • view
Mine, too: a family of Great Tits.
jun 22, 2025, 8:17 am • 12 0 • view
Three wood pigeons, flying high, energetic wing beats headed towards the south-west, seen above the gable opposite where I could hear chirrupping but I could not see the sparrows.
jun 22, 2025, 7:52 am • 16 0 • view
The sparrows are back to their old invisibility tricks. 😁
jun 22, 2025, 12:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Male house sparrow appeared soon after, temporarily clinging to the vertical surface of the gable, back to me. This attaching to the pebbledash surface is a 'trick' for sparrows, given their passerine feet. They don't hold there long. Swifts' claws would probably attach comfortably on this surface.
jun 22, 2025, 2:05 pm • 3 0 • view
I know just what you mean. I've seen similar tricks here. It always amazes me how adaptable birds can be when necessary.
jun 22, 2025, 2:38 pm • 3 0 • view
A wren. Blasting out its song for EVERYONE to hear. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jun 22, 2025, 7:36 am • 16 0 • view
I can never get over how much noise they make for such a tiny bird - the loudest in our forest by far!
jun 22, 2025, 7:43 am • 8 0 • view
3:30am the blackbird began to sing outside my window and I hadn't even been to sleep yet due to the heat, so woken by early morning alarm before my night began.
jun 22, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: the Goldfinch young, all drab & grey with just a hint of the glory to come, enjoying the Niger seed
jun 22, 2025, 8:08 am • 15 0 • view
Magnificent melodic medley from a duetting pair of blackbirds. No mediocrity . No monotony . Pure morning magic. Mmmmmmm . 🐦⬛ #firstbirdofmyday
jun 22, 2025, 8:14 am • 15 0 • view
Mellifluous magic 🐦⬛
jun 24, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
Great Tits on the feeders. Warm and humid here
jun 22, 2025, 7:36 am • 16 0 • view
Snap on the Great Tit
jun 22, 2025, 7:35 am • 12 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Northern mockingbird
jun 22, 2025, 12:08 pm • 3 0 • view
A Dunnock hopping across the lawn, pecking at the grass and clover, before scurrying under a bush.
jun 22, 2025, 7:55 am • 16 0 • view
A huge disturbance in the hawthorn hedge caught my eye as I wondered curiously about the culprit; only for of all birds, a woodpigeon to emerge. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jun 22, 2025, 7:55 am • 14 0 • view
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jun 22, 2025, 12:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Swifts accompanying the moth trap again. #FirstBirdofMyDay
jun 22, 2025, 9:42 am • 10 0 • view
Up north in IV36 and someone has covered a large pine cone with peanut butter and the Great tits are loving it, three with a Coal tit getting some. 🥰 Off to buy more peanut butter!! #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jun 22, 2025, 9:26 am • 8 0 • view
I sat here with Merlin running for half an hour this morning. In this wild oak wood it picked up the calls of 19 different species. Including two golden orioles. Despite straining my eyes I saw two: first was a chaffinch then a woodpigeon. I will post a list of all the heard birds. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jun 22, 2025, 8:34 am • 10 0 • view
First bird of my day: a Crow being blown north by a strong tail wind on a cloudy morning with a hint of rain in the air.
jun 22, 2025, 8:08 am • 13 0 • view
I went onto the balcony expecting to see a Blackbird or a Woodpigeon on the lawn but instead got my nose shaved by three freewheeling Swifts! Hurrah! 😻 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jun 22, 2025, 7:43 am • 16 0 • view
'Nose shaved'!!! 🤣
jun 22, 2025, 7:53 am • 6 0 • view
I saw the whites of their eyes as they zoomed past, I did 😹
jun 22, 2025, 7:55 am • 7 0 • view
Brilliant - yet to see one here, sadly😩
jun 22, 2025, 8:14 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t ever remember seeing them in Surrey, not that they aren’t there, just that I was never looking. Fingers crossed for some in the future 🤞
jun 22, 2025, 8:30 am • 1 0 • view
Probably more chance in Surrey than here in Notts, but some local fellow naturalists have reported seeing them. Saw a novel adaptation for Swift boxes in N Ireland @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
jun 22, 2025, 8:39 am • 3 0 • view
A Swift tower! I know there’s one in Warsaw somewhere that was put up a few years ago but I don’t know how successful it’s been. I’ll have a check out of it.
jun 22, 2025, 9:22 am • 3 0 • view
It will be interesting to know how successful any of these are
jun 22, 2025, 9:42 am • 2 0 • view
Hmm had a look online and there isn’t much - the one I know of was erected in 2012 & someone was there recently and it looks as though it hasn’t been maintained properly (what a surprise!!!) & half the fronts have fallen off the boxes so I have no idea if any birds are actually nesting there or not.
jun 22, 2025, 12:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, that’s often the problem, having people/organisations prepared to maintain in the long term. My worry (when you have that commitment) is ensuring (safe) access to the top of the pole to undertake that maintenance. 👍
jun 22, 2025, 5:25 pm • 3 0 • view
The problem here usually is that the money is from the EU for the project itself but afterwards there’s no money for maintenance and it was never in the plan to start off with. There’s a lot of short-termism and box-ticking.
jun 22, 2025, 5:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Not quite first but lovely to see goldfinches drinking. They're so chic
jun 22, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
0345, barely light, a wet nose wakes me, I get up and let Rex & Edie out, a Blackbird 🐦⬛, #firstbirdofmyday on the lawn. I sit on the sofa and both dogs jump up, one on my lap the other by my side and immediately fall asleep. I switch on R3 Unwind lean back and doze….0600 they’re up for our walk 🚶♀️ 🐕🐕
jun 22, 2025, 7:52 am • 15 0 • view
Spill the beans, Peter: is Edie a new companion?
jun 22, 2025, 7:57 am • 4 0 • view
No, Edie is one of my daughter’s dogs she is staying with us whilst she is away. A sweetie♥️
jun 22, 2025, 8:03 am • 5 0 • view
Lovely. 😊
jun 22, 2025, 8:07 am • 2 0 • view
jun 22, 2025, 8:28 am • 6 0 • view
She’s lovely 🥰
jun 22, 2025, 8:41 am • 3 0 • view
Two wood pigeons grazing the lawn in front of my window. Others close by cooing loudly in the surrounding trees. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
jun 22, 2025, 9:13 am • 10 0 • view