First bird of my day: a line of starlings, equally spaced on a rooftop, under a perfect blue sky. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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#FirstBirdofMyDay great tit, blue tit, chaffinch and greenfinch on our seed feeder next to our caravan on Anglesey.
aug 31, 2025, 8:54 am • 6 0 • view
A Willow Warbler in the Magic Tree.
aug 31, 2025, 6:43 am • 11 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Wood Pigeons flying at speed, ducking & diving through a cloudless sky, as they head off over the field
aug 31, 2025, 8:03 am • 7 0 • view
Collared Dove and garden Robin. Fine if breezy here.
aug 31, 2025, 6:49 am • 8 0 • view
#FirstBirdOfMyDay: A pair of mourning doves
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Bickering goldfiches sat on the washingline arguing over who gets to go next to the feeder #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 31, 2025, 7:49 am • 8 0 • view
First bird of my day: was the loud “laugh” of a Green Woodpecker flying overhead.
aug 31, 2025, 7:58 am • 8 0 • view
A young wood pigeon pecking its way across the lawn. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 31, 2025, 7:46 am • 7 0 • view
A wren climbing up the ivy, then exploring along the floor of the hawthorn hedgerow. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 31, 2025, 8:03 am • 7 0 • view
A sudden burst of herring gull call,that transports me from urban Leeds to Whitby in an instant. #FirstBirdofMyDay
aug 31, 2025, 7:09 am • 11 0 • view
Rooks squabbling & planning in the early morning light were the #FirstBirdOfMyDay .
aug 31, 2025, 8:25 am • 6 0 • view
First bird of my day: a Greenfinch at the feeder and Dunnocks shooting in and out of the hedge on a breezy day. #Firstbirdofmyday
aug 31, 2025, 9:08 am • 5 0 • view
The sparrows are back and in fine voice down in the dogwood this morning! It’s going to be a lovely day 😺 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 am • 9 0 • view
I think of house sparrows chirruping in the dogwood in parallel with swifts during their summer in Szczecin as being the two basic staples of your 1st bird observations! I like hearing about them. 🤎🖤🩶😄
aug 31, 2025, 7:27 am • 5 0 • view
LOL where I live there aren’t many FBOMD possibilities, given my urban, 4th floor location 😹 Summer: Swifts, pigeons, wood pigeons, hooded crow; Winter: Sparrows, gulls, pigeons, wood pigeons, tits, hooded crow. Anything else is a rarity as I see them flying past rather than on the ground 😺
aug 31, 2025, 10:55 am • 3 0 • view
Other than the weeks in each year when your swift boxes are full-on producing swiftlets 🙌, I hadn't noticed, in particular, any unlikeliness for house sparrows to be your 1st bird. I wouldn't mind if sparrows here were FBOMD 365 days! Though harvest time they're not here. Not far, in grain fields! 😃
aug 31, 2025, 11:27 am • 2 0 • view
I think that’s where ours are in summer as well. I do hear them in the mornings but don’t see them so much as in winter, when they’re regular visitors to the balcony. I don’t feed so much in the summer as I actually want to be able to use my own balcony!
aug 31, 2025, 11:31 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah, I understand about using your balcony without cleaning it up several times each 24 hours. Mmh, they'll be somewhere where their special purpose beak shape is being put to excellent use to feed themselves, but also issuing forth their inimitable sounds of fervent social interactions! 😆
aug 31, 2025, 11:37 am • 1 0 • view
Heard 🌈 lorikeets somewhere outside this morning but a pied currawong was first sighted, perched on a tree next door then flying past me and landing on an elm branch before it flew down to the garden where it stopped for a long drink in one of the water bowls. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
aug 31, 2025, 11:58 am • 3 0 • view