First bird of my day: a wood pigeon flying into a copper beech tree and landing like an Olympic gymnast. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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First bird of my day: woodpigeons in the garden - on the lawn, in the birdbath and waddling along the path. The juvenile is becoming more confident but stays close to its parent. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 16, 2025, 7:17 am • 10 0 • view
Three courting Pacific White Terns, then a lovely Black Noddy on the lagoon.
aug 16, 2025, 5:39 pm • 6 0 • view
First bird of my day, the juvenile herring gull with a call that is now half youngster's pleading screech and half grown up herring gull. Its voice is breaking! #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 16, 2025, 6:57 am • 11 0 • view
Fascinated to watch a bonny blackbird for 5 minutes at 5.30am by the country park 🐦⬛ I'd love to know how exactly he instantly turned 180° perched/stood on 1" bore fence & launched into flight when unhappy at approaching car headlights!
aug 16, 2025, 7:51 am • 10 0 • view
I was greeted by a soft, pale grey, day and #FirstBirdOfMyDay: an equally soft, pale grey, Collared Dove
aug 16, 2025, 6:56 am • 11 0 • view
Great Tits on the feeders. A cover of light cloud here.
aug 16, 2025, 6:55 am • 10 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Mourning dove waiting, waiting, waiting for me to bring out assume breakfast seed. (Slow getting outside this morning. 🥱)
aug 16, 2025, 3:57 pm • 8 0 • view
*some* breakfast seed Maybe still not awake ...
aug 16, 2025, 4:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Yet on the best case, maybe the mourning dove has some other potential opportunities to get breakfast and didn't have to wait in just the one place; though conscious that when your feeding station has availability it is of quality seed so happened to be there when you went out with the seed refill.
aug 17, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
I'm sure the doves – and all the local birds – have multiple places where they regularly find food and do not depend on someone as unreliable as I am. But they sure do act otherwise sometimes. That dove was sitting at the feeders staring at the house for a long time. 😆🙄
aug 17, 2025, 4:24 am • 2 0 • view
House Sparrows in the hedge and flitting around the garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 16, 2025, 7:29 am • 9 0 • view
Earlier this morning a wood pigeon seen here too, balancing on an arch as if it were a beam overlooking the Vale of York. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 16, 2025, 6:28 pm • 7 0 • view
A gang of Blue tits nipping around the back garden. First time in some time. 🥰 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 16, 2025, 7:20 am • 9 0 • view
First bird of my day: a female Redstart perched in an elder tree and eating the freshly ripened berries on an overcast, cool morning. #Firstbirdofmyday
aug 16, 2025, 7:04 am • 10 0 • view
A whole flock of starlings just descended on our front lawn. We think the dew may have brought worms to the surface. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 16, 2025, 7:09 am • 11 0 • view
Swifts! Beautiful acrobats flying like crazy against a pale blue sky! Can never see enough of them!
aug 16, 2025, 7:16 am • 10 0 • view
Snap! Although there was no landing - just a whizz past over the trees and rooftops. One of those ‘Woodpigeon with a purpose’ flights 😺#FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 16, 2025, 8:00 am • 8 0 • view
I can just imagine it. My first birds were 2 eastern spinebills chasing each other furiously around the tree ferns this morning. One landed and claimed the branch and the other flew away. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
aug 16, 2025, 7:02 am • 11 0 • view