First bird of my day: I was just minding my own business walking a regular route and I heard a Redstart right next to me. After a lot of peering I spied a bit of red before it flew off. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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First bird of my day: a woodpigeon warming itself up on the tin shed roof, its wings spread out as it bathed in the morning sunshine. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 2, 2025, 8:35 am • 11 0 • view
Pacific White Tern.
aug 2, 2025, 7:18 am • 12 0 • view
A silent corvid that flew up and directly away from a deciduous tree in full leaf in bright sunshine. I guess it was a rook because it wasn't accompanied, didn't make jackdaw calls and didn't appear big enough to be a carrion crow!
aug 2, 2025, 7:53 am • 10 0 • view
I was delighted to see a Chaffinch as #FirstBirdOfMyDay There were a pair feasting on sunflower hearts in the garden
aug 2, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
A gull flying over. A fine morning here.
aug 2, 2025, 7:09 am • 12 0 • view
A skein of Canada geese flying over very low. They are now in a a nearby field. It seems very early to be seeing this kind of thing. Maybe preparing for the oncoming storm? #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 2, 2025, 7:59 am • 9 0 • view
The sounds of an unhappy mockingbird made me put down the bird food to search the trees. There! A crow being chased away – a blur of flashing wing patches and much angry verbiage. Can't say for sure which I saw first, so they will have to share #FirstBirdOfMyDay honors.
aug 2, 2025, 12:18 pm • 9 0 • view
Tree sparrows literally dropping in to visit the feeders from some very high hawthorn growth and the parallel telegraph wires alongside the garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 2, 2025, 7:38 am • 13 0 • view
Great spot Hannah. Still about 20 plus Pallid Swifts wizzing about over the garden although the nests are now empty.
aug 2, 2025, 7:33 am • 11 0 • view
A particularly shouty wren chip chipping away at me as I hung out my washing. Then sitting at the top of the spindle tree making a noise like a machine gun. So loud for such a tiny bird. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 2, 2025, 12:00 pm • 9 0 • view
First bird of my day: a flock of Long Tailed Tits flying from tree to tree on a beautiful blue sky morning. #Firstbirdofmyday
aug 2, 2025, 7:27 am • 11 0 • view
A female blackbird who is missing her tail feathers. She has been with us for a couple of years now. Unless we have hosted a genetic mutation that makes it easier for them to escape from cats... #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 2, 2025, 9:38 am • 8 0 • view
It was still a Swift, but this time in Berlin 😺 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 2, 2025, 4:20 pm • 6 0 • view
Well! They follow you wherever you go! 😁
aug 2, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 0 • view
LOL it would appear so! This evening when I got back home I went out onto the balcony at about 8 & thought, ‘Oh, they’ve all gone,’ but at about 9 there were a good 30 or so above the park, including a pair of ‘ours’ that are still here even though their young fledged 2 weeks ago! Amazing.
aug 2, 2025, 9:37 pm • 2 0 • view
😊 For a little while longer, then.
aug 2, 2025, 9:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Normally they go about this time but I’ve discovered that there are young uns in 3 or 4 boxes due to birds losing partners & starting late so I think they’ll be around for a few more weeks yet. The weather looks as though it’s going to be sunny as well so we should have good insect numbers 👍
aug 2, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Have to look that one up. I just got home from a day out and first birds to greet me were rainbow lorikeets above, chattering in the elms and a solitary eastern spinebill hovering in the salvia by the front door. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
aug 2, 2025, 7:15 am • 12 0 • view
Both spectacular! How lovely 😺
aug 2, 2025, 4:22 pm • 3 0 • view