First bird of my day: two long tailed tits chasing each other through a hawthorn that was laden with red berries. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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First bird of my day: a woodpigeon (again!) walking down the garden path, investigating the fallen leaves under the oak tree. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 19, 2025, 9:42 am • 8 0 • view
#Hummingbirds fighting over FOUR feeders. 😁
aug 19, 2025, 11:33 am • 2 0 • view
Inland commuting herring gulls under a grey sky.
aug 19, 2025, 8:04 am • 9 0 • view
Whichever direction I looked #FirstBirdOfMyDay was a Wood Pigeon flying across a universally grey sky. Heading hither & thither off to see what they could find.
aug 19, 2025, 7:05 am • 8 0 • view
A Collared Dove and a Jackdaw. Dull but dry here.
aug 19, 2025, 6:39 am • 9 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Northern cardinal in a cedar tree, fanned tail feathers backlit by the rising sun, making every barb visible
aug 19, 2025, 2:30 pm • 4 0 • view
That must have been a stunning sight! Such beautiful birds that they don't actually need such a coincidental visual effect to make an appealing appearance but this cardinal would have looked super interesting in these circumstances. 😄
aug 27, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, it was! One of the benefits of getting out at sunrise. 😄
aug 27, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Two wood pigeons having a stand off on the garden path. Neither would give way. Peace negotiations were eventually successful and they wandered off together. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 19, 2025, 7:42 am • 8 0 • view
Spied through a chink in the curtains, a robin checking out its territory early morn. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 19, 2025, 3:32 pm • 6 0 • view
A male House Sparrow trying and failing to catch a juicy insect on the wall of my house.
aug 19, 2025, 10:11 am • 4 0 • view
Grey Feather on next door’s chimney while brushing my teeth on the step. Went for a digestive, though he had flown away. Pigeon might have some. 🙂 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 19, 2025, 9:01 am • 8 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay : Two grey shrike-thrushes, recently returned south to nest nearby. Don't know if the same one(s) as came last spring, but they knew to sing for their supper (a little rolled oats on the back verandah table). (Not my) recording of their glorious song: youtu.be/eF4KDLUhGxU?...
aug 19, 2025, 8:28 am • 7 0 • view
You lucky thing. I've seen them occasionally in the local gardens but not in my own.
aug 19, 2025, 9:58 am • 2 0 • view
First bird of my day: a Blackbird eating ripe damsons from the tree in the hedgerow on an overcast, calm morning. #Firstbirdofmyday
aug 19, 2025, 6:45 am • 10 0 • view
Also saw a Tit this morning, but of the Blue variety, dashing between the trees. Is the Kestrel on the prowl? #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 19, 2025, 6:50 am • 9 0 • view
A laughing Kookaburra close by, heard but not seen then spotted 6 pied currawongs energetically foraging in the damp garden beds. One hopped from the camellia to the lillypilly flushing out the kookaburra who flew straight towards the window then up and over the roof. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
aug 19, 2025, 7:11 am • 8 0 • view
Lillypilly looks as lovely as it sounds! BTW do you write lillypillys or lillypillies?
aug 19, 2025, 9:27 am • 1 0 • view
Good question! I've never thought about but according to AI it's lillypillies. I have enough trouble trying to decide whether to use a dash or not 😀
aug 19, 2025, 9:53 am • 3 0 • view
LOL I thought I’d ask a local as when I went online it had it as one word, two words, hyphenated, with no plural form, with s, with -ies 😹😹😹
aug 19, 2025, 9:59 am • 2 0 • view
That makes me feel better!
aug 19, 2025, 10:00 am • 3 0 • view
Lillypillies it is, then 😹
aug 19, 2025, 10:01 am • 2 0 • view