Mice! Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 Seeing plenty of house sparrows at the moment, they like the Privett hedge either side of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 Yes, good to see them coming back , we have about a dozen living in our yard. I've put some nest boxes on the eaves. Don't know if they will take to them. Almost all the old roofs in sheds etc are now gone, they can't build nest up there anymore. Used to be classed as a pest back in my childhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted March 12, 2022 Report Share Posted March 12, 2022 Four Sand Martins reported over Frampton pools/ Slimbridge WWT, yesterday (11/3/22), heading north. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted March 12, 2022 Report Share Posted March 12, 2022 Sand Martin at Titchwell, Norfolk yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureBoy Posted March 30, 2022 Report Share Posted March 30, 2022 First lot of blackbirds fledged 4 yesterday. Robins were close as well, but got predated by feline. Lotti's nest in brambles but lost to climbing badger. Dogs off lead got moorhens eggs and trashed duck nests. Mistle thrush feeding young and little owls being very entertaining. NB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted March 31, 2022 Report Share Posted March 31, 2022 An Osprey heading North at Purton, (nr Berkeley), 30/3/22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted April 3, 2022 Report Share Posted April 3, 2022 Have just seen a pair of bullfinches in my wood, so they have obviously settled in. I also saw a pair of linnets this morning at the golf club. I have not seen linnets for many many moons. There used to be hundreds if not thousands nesting in a swath of gorse bushes on the roadside above our farm, now gone beneath the M42.....Progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureBoy Posted April 4, 2022 Report Share Posted April 4, 2022 Saw a pair if lesser spotted woodpeckers getting jiggy today. Not seen any in ages. Literally had hundreds of brambling my way in recent weeks and through Winter. Never known such numbers. Had loads of folk noticing them and sending me pics asking what they are. Still few fieldfare and odd redwing about. One local farm/shoot Rung over a 1000 birds last month. Highlight was 2nd ever firecrest. Saw hummingbird hawkmoth yesterday. Didn't see any last year. Fairly sure they over winter in the ivy on my house and sheds. Grey partridges doing well, see/hear them most days and thankfully seeing less buzzards. NB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 5, 2022 Report Share Posted April 5, 2022 Two Ring Ouzels on Cleeve Hill, (4/4/22) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted April 11, 2022 Report Share Posted April 11, 2022 First sighting of a Swallow for this year , 10 / 14 days earlier than last year , they say one Swallow don't make a Summer but it is still nice to see the first one and should be the hottest it have been so far this year for this coming weekend . Bring it on I say . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 12 hours ago, marsh man said: First sighting of a Swallow for this year , 10 / 14 days earlier than last year , they say one Swallow don't make a Summer but it is still nice to see the first one and should be the hottest it have been so far this year for this coming weekend . Bring it on I say . House Martins have arrived here in Gloucestershire as well,.........hope the forecast is right for the weekend, pouring down here at the moment, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 2 minutes ago, twenty said: House Martins have arrived here in Gloucestershire as well,.........hope the forecast is right for the weekend, pouring down here at the moment, First morning I walked down to the estuary without a coat on , the first cattle are already on the dried out grazing marshes and the horses should be within the next few days , most of the breeding wildfowl are in pairs now and the Swans are getting the nests ready . No sign of rain and it is still looking good for the long weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 Just a spatter of welcome rain overnight and could do with some more...nice and steady... Sat in one of my cabins in our wood and was pleased to see the bullfinches back, along with blue and great tits and nuthatches. Chaffinches still in flocks and a welcome sight of a greenfinch so hoping they are making a comeback. I moved a nest box last year and was pleased to see a pair of bluetits packing it with moss. So much in a beak I don't know how they could see to fly. Amazing little bird almost ignored as 'common'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 14, 2022 Report Share Posted April 14, 2022 A Stone Curlew at WWT Slimbridge, and a Hooded Crow at Saul,(13/4/22). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 15, 2022 Report Share Posted April 15, 2022 A North bound flying CUCKOO at Purton, ( S Glos ), 14/4/22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 17, 2022 Report Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) A Pair of DOTTEREL on Cleeve Hill yesterday (16/4/22), First record since 2014. Edited April 17, 2022 by twenty date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 18, 2022 Report Share Posted April 18, 2022 Three singing NIGHTINGALES in Highnam woods, Glos (17/4/22). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shufti Posted April 24, 2022 Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) My 1st Cuckoo this year seen from car near Higham, Suffolk today. Edited April 24, 2022 by Shufti comma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted April 25, 2022 Report Share Posted April 25, 2022 (edited) Just typed a whole report and it suddenly got wiped off. I did not touch the keyboard. This has happened a number of times... Edited April 25, 2022 by Walker570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 Well. I will try again. My wife retrieved this nest from the middle of one of the rides in our wood. Obviously torn out from a nearby bush but hardly damaged. I can't for the life of me remember ..does a song thrush plaster the inside of the nest or a blackbird ???? some 70 years since I had a fair egg collection and hedges would be heaving with nests of all kinds. This one is lined with what look like wood chippings and stuck together with mud. Beautiful bit of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 From memory of childhood bird’s nesting days: song thrush is mud lined, not blackbird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Walker570 said: Well. I will try again. My wife retrieved this nest from the middle of one of the rides in our wood. Obviously torn out from a nearby bush but hardly damaged. I can't for the life of me remember ..does a song thrush plaster the inside of the nest or a blackbird ???? some 70 years since I had a fair egg collection and hedges would be heaving with nests of all kinds. This one is lined with what look like wood chippings and stuck together with mud. Beautiful bit of work. That's a Song thrush nest, the blackbird does form the cup in mud, but then lines it with rootlets and grasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 Cheers twenty, I thought that was it. Great pity because it looks like a this years nest and the first I have seen where the mud lining looked like stockboard with the wood chips all smoothed out. Doesn't show really well on the photo Amazing what these birds will do. Not so many about these days and would have liked to see a family in the wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 20 minutes ago, Walker570 said: Cheers twenty, I thought that was it. Great pity because it looks like a this years nest and the first I have seen where the mud lining looked like stockboard with the wood chips all smoothed out. Doesn't show really well on the photo Amazing what these birds will do. Not so many about these days and would have liked to see a family in the wood. Taken off the Red list for birds in conservation danger about three years ago, now Amber listed ( not of immediate concern)..........UK breeding population, circa 1,200,000 breeding territories..........a wonderful Songster, go to RSPB Song Thrush, on line, and give it listen. All the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shufti Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 Song thrush were fairly common when I was a kid, now even hearing one these parts is rare. What you think of slug pellets effect on these birds? Surely must be poisoning them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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