First bird of my day: the sound of swifts, like a chime of bells, ringing in my sleeping ears, pulling me awake. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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First bird of my day: an adult woodpigeon being followed round by a juvenile who was begging to be fed. The adult was having none of it and flew off, leaving the juvenile to explore the garden alone. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 18, 2025, 8:28 am • 7 0 • view
This morning it was Blyth's Hornbill. Wingbeats as loud as a Swan's.
jul 19, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
Steel-blue Flycatcher. Not just my first of the day, my first ever!
jul 18, 2025, 6:56 am • 13 0 • view
Wonderful!
jul 18, 2025, 8:28 am • 1 0 • view
Nil birds when peeping out of the porch. Stepped out ... FBOMD lone herring gull flyover, 3 pairs of jackdaws, 1 pair wood pigeons each closely perched ❤️ roofs our side of the street. Next, flocks of starlings in flight with 3 goldfinches bouncing across their flight path ... and breathe! 😆
jul 18, 2025, 7:08 am • 10 0 • view
The extra effort of stepping outside was worth it. 😄
jul 18, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yes! As soon as I got to have a clear view of the neighbouring houses on our side down the road, it was a challenge to compute the numbers of birds in view and survey their current behaviours. How much the jackdaw and wood pigeon pairs appreciate their mate's presence in silence early on!! 🐦🐦🔇😄
jul 19, 2025, 5:54 am • 1 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay herring gulls calling over the rooftops in Plymouth telling me Im by the sea so get up.
jul 18, 2025, 6:55 am • 13 0 • view
Great Tits on the feeders. Warm and humid here.
jul 18, 2025, 6:59 am • 12 0 • view
Swifts and housemartins, then a c.12-part flight formation of swifts, which came and went in a second or two. Amazing!
jul 18, 2025, 7:56 am • 9 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: American robins again, doing robin things. #WhatsYours
jul 18, 2025, 3:02 pm • 8 0 • view
A female blackbird on the low hedge looking over the horse field. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 18, 2025, 7:29 am • 10 0 • view
Swallows filling the sky with their graceful manoeuvres as they seek sustenance. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 18, 2025, 8:23 am • 9 0 • view
A crow, crawing loudly way, way too early; and again just now. Otherwise zilch. #FirstBirdofMyDay
jul 18, 2025, 7:11 am • 11 0 • view
Blue tits chattering to each other in the very overgrown bushes in my garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 18, 2025, 12:37 pm • 8 0 • view
First bird of my day: better late than never was a young Robin hopping around the picnic bench on a muggy morning. #Firstbirdofmyday
jul 18, 2025, 5:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Snap! The weather’s not been the sunniest recently so many of them have been off somewhere else but they’re back again in force today 😺 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 18, 2025, 6:52 am • 10 0 • view
Kookaburras loudly heralding the break of day here. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
jul 18, 2025, 8:19 am • 8 0 • view