First bird of my day: a wet jackdaw, happy just sitting on the roof after a night of rain. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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House martins, twittering away in the grey sky. Keeping us company for the next 6 weeks or so (I hope) now that most of the swifts have left.
jul 31, 2025, 7:13 am • 11 0 • view
First bird of my day: a woodpigeon, squeezing through a gap in a conifer hedge and launching into the air. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 7:45 am • 8 0 • view
My skies are empty, the swifts have left, abruptly, no stragglers this year and I am standing bereft, just a collared dove & a magpie to lift the morning. #FirstBirdIfMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 8:31 am • 6 0 • view
A similar FBOMD observation to yesterday as a herring gull passed languidly down the road, a direction of flight at 90° to the morning gull popular transit here for much of the year.
jul 31, 2025, 7:11 am • 10 0 • view
The road less traveled for this gull 😄
jul 31, 2025, 2:48 pm • 1 0 • view
That's clever! 😆
jul 31, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay was a Blue Tit. It’s drizzling & the scruffy BT family were very busy at the feeder. At least 6 of them popping in & out from the surrounding greenery.
jul 31, 2025, 7:01 am • 11 0 • view
Great Tits and Robin in the garden. Warm and dry here at present.
jul 31, 2025, 6:55 am • 12 0 • view
In the middle of my soggy lawn, a young wood pigeon stands completely still, looking drenched and disheveled. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 6:59 am • 13 0 • view
My sky-watching efforts paid off this morning: An American crow, flight silhouetted against the rosy pinks of sunrise, was #FirstBirdOfMyDay.
jul 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 6 0 • view
Beautiful. 😍 Well spotted.
jul 31, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
A collared dove enjoying overflow below recently filled feeders near the hawthorn hedge, with bluetits and great tits flitting back n forth. Sadly, no much needed rain here for about a week. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 8:20 am • 8 0 • view
A glorious sunny morning up North. A roosting blackbird finally noticed me drinking tea on the step and shot out of the wild hedge and over the alley way #FirstBirdofMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 7:40 am • 9 0 • view
A blackbird giving a solo dawn chorus
jul 31, 2025, 7:19 am • 9 0 • view
A female Sardinian Warbler flitting around in an orange tree in my little veg garden.
jul 31, 2025, 9:02 am • 6 0 • view
Two pigeons playing chase in the back garden on a very fair morning. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 7:04 am • 10 0 • view
A little group of greenfinches, trilling and twittering through the garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 10:21 am • 6 0 • view
First bird of my day: a Crow calling as it flies across a cloudy and calm valley. #Firstbirdofmyday
jul 31, 2025, 6:58 am • 12 0 • view
A scruffy fledgling robin looking all grown up and important until a parent flies by, prompting an impressively demanding open-beak gape. Poxy teenagers!
jul 31, 2025, 8:34 am • 5 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay here - a Swift! when I open the blinds in the morning I always get a view of the sky, and there are still parents buzzing around bringing food for their young 😺
jul 31, 2025, 7:03 am • 12 0 • view
So, not all of them have left yet! 😃
jul 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 3 0 • view
It turns out that all the bangers and screamers have disappeared so it’s very quiet but in the evening there are still parents that gather together for a fly about - and most of ‘my’ residents are still here raising young, so I’ll have something to watch out for for a while yet!
jul 31, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
A rather unusual 'small brown job': a Cetti's Warbler. I've seen/heard them occasionally elsewhere, but this is the first time I've seen one in the garden! #FirstBirdOfMyDay
jul 31, 2025, 8:59 am • 7 0 • view
Must have been amazing for such a special warbler to come to you rather than you having to go somewhere a bit special to hear and see them!
aug 1, 2025, 7:25 am • 1 0 • view
Definitely! I couldn't quite believe my ears when I heard it, then I stood gazing into the neighbour's tree, watching and waiting in hopeful disbelief (because I doubted I'd see it!), but there it was - the briefest of glimpses, but there all the same.
aug 1, 2025, 8:36 am • 1 0 • view
I wish that I could see all the birds I can hear this morning as I venture outside into a bright but cold day. Eventually after the washing is put out I see a small flock of noisy miners being feisty in the old crab apple tree. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
jul 31, 2025, 7:17 am • 9 0 • view