First bird of my day: ‘my’ Dunnock, alone again in the quiet garden starting a day that hasn’t decided what weather to wear. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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First bird of my day: two wooing woodpigeons on a tin shed roof. Lots of clattering and flapping as she spurned his advances. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 8, 2025, 9:36 am • 6 0 • view
Silvereyes.
aug 8, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 0 • view
At 03:40 a new sound arrested my slumbers. A gull landed on my roof & proceeded to take apart the gentle night air with its razor bladed opinions. Merlin app id a Yellow Legged Gull, if correct he is a long way from home. We are far far in land. #FirstBirdOfMyDay#gull#disturbedsleep#noisyseagull
aug 8, 2025, 8:22 am • 9 0 • view
FBsOMD were two robins tic'ing shortly after dawn on either side of the road on the way to the railway station. I looked into a leafy tree for one of them. But I think I just saw the movement of leaves where bird had moved from.
aug 8, 2025, 8:19 am • 8 0 • view
Today’s #FirstBirdOfMyDay was a young Wood Pigeon, yet to gain its full-dress plumage. Young enough to not take flight from the shed roof the moment it saw me but old enough to know that, once I’d stepped through the door into the garden, it should probably scarper. Warm & sunny here (Herts)
aug 8, 2025, 7:34 am • 10 0 • view
Snap on the Woodpigeon
aug 8, 2025, 7:38 am • 5 0 • view
Currently in France and was woken this morning by a Golden Oriole singing from a nearby tree. Shortly afterwards, it was joined by hundreds of Starlings.
aug 8, 2025, 8:54 am • 8 0 • view
Woodpigeon perched on the roof. A sunny morning here.
aug 8, 2025, 7:14 am • 10 0 • view
Same here!
aug 8, 2025, 9:36 am • 3 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Mourning doves, two
aug 8, 2025, 3:23 pm • 6 0 • view
A gang of sparrows bouncing around in a hedge row before flying off like commuters geabbing a snack on the way to work. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 8, 2025, 7:28 am • 11 0 • view
A blackbird, his yellow beak glinting in the sun, as he dallied below the feeders. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 8, 2025, 7:40 am • 10 0 • view
SWIFTS! Screaming flock of 7 past our bedroom window at 07:30. Then another. Altogether 11 birds counted, sometimes high up with the house martins, then low passes along the street in groups of 3 or 4. Where have they suddenly come from ? Feels like 3 weeks ago #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 8, 2025, 7:33 am • 12 0 • view
That's really interesting about the House martins being generally up at a higher level than these Swifts. I observed the same on Sunday 4th evening. I do not often see swifts feeding for a prolonged period appreciably lower than martins. Usually, I find the higher flying insectivores are the swifts!
aug 8, 2025, 8:28 am • 5 0 • view
While waiting for the kettle to boil, looking out on the back garden, Grey feather, our neighbourly crow, was pecking away the seeds from a feeder that got blown off its perch . Turning it over as required to get to more bits. Stayed for some time, very cautious. 🥰 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 8, 2025, 8:10 am • 9 0 • view
I am so glad Grey Feather's still on the scene & gets your FBOMD shout-out! I might not presume to use a nickname for another crow after 'Roundhead' because I only was able to see the individual for another couple of months. Unknown whether appearance changed, left vicinity or something worse. 😐
aug 8, 2025, 8:24 am • 4 0 • view
I try not to name individual birds (or other wildlife), but sometimes, nicknames just happen. 🤷♀️
aug 8, 2025, 3:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, I know what you mean! Roundhead's head was just so distinctive that the nickname suggested itself. Moreover, s/he was targeted so much by the cavalier jackdaws with their 'Top Gun style non-contact close manoeuvres' it made the individual so noticeable for several weeks I needed to tag a name.
aug 8, 2025, 8:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Top Gun jackdaws! 🤣
aug 8, 2025, 10:36 pm • 3 0 • view
First bird of my day: a Great Tit at the feeder and Jackdaws flying overhead on a calm, cool morning. #Firstbirdofmyday
aug 8, 2025, 7:31 am • 10 0 • view
It was the Herring Gulls raging war in the skies at around 4 AM. A juvenile gull had unfortunately wandered into the territory of an established pair and only just escaped with minor scrapes. Others screamed their raucous cries from various rooftops.
aug 8, 2025, 8:52 am • 8 0 • view
Cooing woodie wood pigeons in the trees of the churchyard. Still 6 swifts over the east of Montrose town centre in the warm sunny evening yesterday. #firstbirdofmyday
aug 8, 2025, 7:15 am • 11 0 • view
Snap on the Woodpigeon
aug 8, 2025, 7:38 am • 4 0 • view
4 simultaneous sightings this morning. 1 large raven pottering on my side of the street, 3 juvenile magpies similarly pottering on t’other side, 5 cockatoos flying low in front of me and 2 crimson rosellas dip diving in and out of the trees on the nature strip. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
aug 8, 2025, 9:45 am • 8 0 • view
That's a lot of your wonderful local avifauna all at once for FBOYD!!! 🐦💚
aug 8, 2025, 12:33 pm • 1 0 • view
🥴 Plenty of sounds but no sightings in the garden when I walked out the door but as soon as I drove onto my street it was all happening. Loads more birds along the walking track as well but too busy talking to pay attention!
aug 8, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh I love that description of the weather.
aug 8, 2025, 9:35 am • 2 0 • view