First bird of my day: a fledging blackbird scampering into the bushes on another dry, warm morning. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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First bird of my day: jackdaws drawing a straight black line in the dawn sky as they leave their roost for the day. This is also Last Day of My Birds as I'm moving house after 26 years, so will no longer see the bullfinches and all the other wonderful birds that visit my garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 27, 2025, 8:01 am • 11 0 • view
Hope the move goes well
aug 27, 2025, 8:14 am • 2 0 • view
A big move, hope it goes smoothly for you. You’ll enjoy spotting all your new feathered friends once you’ve settled.
aug 27, 2025, 8:05 am • 4 0 • view
Hope your move goes to plan. A hectic time for you, to say the least. It will be interesting to read about the birds now waiting to be your new "first birds". 💚
aug 27, 2025, 8:09 am • 4 0 • view
Best wishes for your move CaroBar
aug 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you!
aug 27, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I hope you find a bit of wild life wherever you’re moving to. Good luck with it all.
aug 27, 2025, 8:05 am • 5 0 • view
Back with you all on UK soil. Carrion Crows, Manchester Airport
aug 27, 2025, 9:13 am • 7 0 • view
Welcome back. What a fantastic adventure you’ve had!
aug 27, 2025, 9:55 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you, yes, it was the trip!
aug 27, 2025, 9:57 am • 2 0 • view
I really enjoyed your photos and then looking up the birds I’d not heard of.
aug 27, 2025, 10:01 am • 4 0 • view
Same!
aug 27, 2025, 3:06 pm • 3 0 • view
4 herring gulls FBsOMD straggling on their inland commute, adjusting their course for headwinds. An unlucky flying mallard, en route to the angling lake in the country park, was only a whisker too late to make my 1st bird (not unprecedented but rare)!
aug 27, 2025, 7:07 am • 12 0 • view
Cockerels pre dawn, then a carrion crow countering the last three chimes from the church.
aug 27, 2025, 6:33 am • 13 0 • view
Snap on the Blackbird
aug 27, 2025, 5:59 am • 8 0 • view
Great Tits and Blackbirds in the garden. A fine morning here.
aug 27, 2025, 5:59 am • 12 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Mourning dove this morning
aug 27, 2025, 3:03 pm • 9 0 • view
Mourning doves are back. I've missed them!
aug 27, 2025, 3:47 pm • 2 0 • view
I cheated a little. Some unidentified blip was first, but was seen so briefly that I couldn't even tell you its shape. The dove was actually second. They are slowly returning to the cedars, where their winterlong family reunion is held.
aug 27, 2025, 4:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep, sometimes it is inevitable. Especially problematic on those occasions when I rush to look out of the window and the blur appears suddenly whilst my eye-brain finer coordination is still 'booting up'! 🤣 I REALLY don't know what first bird I have seen!! 🙄
aug 30, 2025, 8:00 am • 3 0 • view
A wood pigeon preening on the fence. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 27, 2025, 7:54 am • 10 0 • view
Snap!
aug 27, 2025, 8:27 am • 3 0 • view
😊
aug 27, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
Bluetits and great tits enjoying the feeders; soon joined by three long tailed tits. A plump wood pigeon optimistically hoped to join the party but the privet branch comically couldn't bear its weight! #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 27, 2025, 8:03 am • 8 0 • view
A sparrow scurrying along a flowerbed in the back garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 27, 2025, 8:22 am • 8 0 • view
First bird of my day: a pair of Greenfinches at the feeder on a blustery but as yet dry morning. #Firstbirdofmyday
aug 27, 2025, 7:34 am • 10 0 • view
Another Wood Pigeon scurrying aerially somewhere 😺 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 27, 2025, 8:02 am • 7 0 • view
A wren was trying out experimental trills, as though he wanted to sing but wasn’t quite sure that he should.
aug 27, 2025, 6:08 am • 12 0 • view
They’re not usually backwards in coming forwards, our wrens! Maybe a younger one?
aug 27, 2025, 8:01 am • 5 0 • view
Perhaps. We had a very territorial male in the garden in the spring, who was extremely vocal and had a number of singing posts. I wondered if he was just coming out of his moult and wanting to reassert himself. He did quite a lot of alarm calling, too.
aug 27, 2025, 8:03 am • 4 0 • view
My wrens are doing that too. They seem to be telling me off every time I step out into the garden. Bickering over winter territories I bet.
aug 27, 2025, 9:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Walking up Boat Brae yesterday, it must have been the acoustics of the trees on one side, a Robin was just so loud laying down the markers to the world! 😍
aug 28, 2025, 6:51 am • 5 0 • view
Trees create fabulous acoustics. I can never walk through a shaw without remembering Dylan Thomas's 'aisles of the organ-playing wood'.
aug 28, 2025, 7:19 am • 3 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
The most perfect morning chorus, the robbin in the back courtyard, singing away yet again 😊 #firstbirdofmyday
aug 27, 2025, 6:01 am • 10 0 • view
A back to winter kind of a day and no birds in sight for most of the morning until I saw a red wattle bird hanging upside down on a branch of the beautiful camellia next door. Solo dining today. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
aug 27, 2025, 6:02 am • 13 0 • view