Any Twitchers?

[AlanTh]

Collared dove - lovely to look at but second only to pheasants in the 'stupidity road sense' league

I get a few Collared Doves and also Woodpigeons in my garden. It is fun watching the CDs tackling the feeder and eventually succeeding. The WPs on the other hand can see the CDs having a good meal, and have a go themselves - without any success at all. Perhaps due to their extra weight and bulk.

I always think that the CDs are quite elegant birds.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I get a few Collared Doves and also Woodpigeons in my garden. It is fun watching the CDs tackling the feeder and eventually succeeding. The WPs on the other hand can see the CDs having a good meal, and have a go themselves - without any success at all. Perhaps due to their extra weight and bulk.

I always think that the CDs are quite elegant birds.

Coo - I couldn't agree more. Very elegant

 

[Fnaar]

Shall we all coo down the dove from above?

 

[PeteXXX]

Can anyone tell me what bird this is, please?
It lives in a conifer, a few houses down, so it's never in binocular view!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Great Tit.

 

[PeteXXX]

Great Tit.

Thank you.
We have those in the garden, but the don't seem to make much noise when feeding, just when they're perched in the conifer. And I can only hear one of them, I think.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Thank you.
We have those in the garden, but the don't seem to make much noise when feeding, just when they're perched in the conifer. And I can only hear one of them, I think.

Quite loud at 5,30am Who needs an alarm

 

[Glow worm]

Yes def great tit. ‘Teacher Teacher’.
you may hear another 2 note song now, the chiff chaff, much softer. Although some overwinter in the UK now, most will be freshly arrived from Africa or S Europe.

 

[gbb]

Despite a younger life in the couuntryside, a father that loved birdwatching, wildlife in general and long countryside walks, we never saw collared doves (although they seem more suited to urban environments). They're not a native species and only in the 1950s did they start breeding here...and so they're quite common now.
Same was true of Magpies, never ever saw one until maybe the mid 1980s. Now they abound everywhere.

 

[PeteXXX]

Quite loud at 5,30am Who needs an alarm

I rarely hear anything at 05.30.. Fortunately, this singing is at the back of the house!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Despite a younger life in the couuntryside, a father that loved birdwatching, wildlife in general and long countryside walks, we never saw collared doves (although they seem more suited to urban environments). They're not a native species and only in the 1950s did they start breeding here...and so they're quite common now.
Same was true of Magpies, never ever saw one until maybe the mid 1980s. Now they abound everywhere.

Red Kite are everywhere now,love seeing them.
So glad the reintroduction worked so successfully.

I'd never seen a kite until playing golf at Oundle in the early noughties

 

[gbb]

Red Kite are everywhere now,love seeing them.
So glad the reintroduction worked so successfully.

I'd never seen a kite until playing golf at Oundle in the early noughties

I used to come into contact with a fella who was closely involved with their reintroduction at Harringworth woods. The success of the project is astounding. On my rides into Rutland In the Noughties I'd be excited to see one, then as the years progressed I remember stopping counting at 50 in one 50 mile ride in that area. Now they're everywhere you see them all over Peterborough and beyond, over the city, over the urban areas, everywhere.
Same in a way with buzzards, you'd not really see them in this area years ago, regular sight now.

 

[wheresthetorch]

Great Tit.

Also known as the 'squeaky foot-pump bird'.

 

[Magpies]

This spring, a beautiful pair of Greater Spotted Woodpeckers have take up residence in a willow at the bottom of my garden. I hear and see them frequently, highlights to my day!

But for the last couple of weeks, the male has got into the habit of perching on my TV antenna and hammering away at it, causing a loud boom/wailing noise inside the house, amplified via the chimney stack. The first time I heard it, I thought my central heating was about to blow up! To make matters worse .....

Quite loud at 5,30am Who needs an alarm

... he's at it every morning now from about 0530 onwards!

Here he is in the photo attached - beautiful bird, but not my favourite alarm clock.

 

[Poacher]

Can anyone tell me what bird this is, please?
It lives in a conifer, a few houses down, so it's never in binocular view!

Give them another 3 weeks or so, when they're desperate for food to give their newly hatched nestlings, order some live mealworms from LiveFoods and you'll have them eating out of your hands.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/pair-of-great-tits-in-my-hand.131965/