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[Archie_tect]

Don't Robin fledglings look really grumpy!!

 

[matthat]

Don't Robin fledglings look really grumpy!!

Yes!!

 

[Glow worm]

So now we have 3 cats indoors climbing the walls because we wont let them out,so the rest of the chicks stand a chance of getting out!!

Good on you for keeping the cats indoors. I wish more cat owners were so responsible.
A ginger b******d cat took 5 young swallows from a nest near here a couple of years back. It was heartbreaking.

 

[gbb]

A lifetime first for me...Nightjar...probably.
Driving to work at 6am, countryside road, I got a 3 second look at a bird flying across the road maybe 20 yards in front of me, mid to dark brown, thrush sized perhaps, but the head, or lack of it was most striking, like it had no neck, stumpy at the front if that makes sense.
3 seconds, not much time, but in that little time you instantly know its something odd, something you've never seen before.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Saw a Rabbit today

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I went down to Eynsford café today and found that the wall-mounted ashtray was once again a tit's nest

But I got the impression that birds have got the visitors well trained. This chaffinch almost climbed onto my shoe in pursuit of food.

 

[Archie_tect]

A male bullfinch was stripping the cherry blossom from a branch a foot away from our open bedroom window this morning, quite happily munching away in the sunshine... just as I reached for my phone to take a photo he flew off.

 

[coffeejo]

Lots of fledglings with their parents at the bird feeders today. And the female blackbird who haunts the patio each year is back, busily pecking away under the stones etc for the insects that all the other (lazier) birds ignore in favour of the feeders.

 

[albal]

Some fab pics there, love the Guilemots at St Abb.? and the goldfinch, just beautiful.Nothing unusual round here.

 

[laurence]

went to see the local Peregrine eyasses today. all three are getting ready to fledge and one (eldest male) is having a go bu jumping off their nest box onto the parapet of their ledge. slightly scary as they're 14 floors up. also saw the Falcon deliver food and she did a couple of fly overs too. great to see. oddly, news tonight is that the Tiercel (male) attacked the juveniles. hopefully they're ok. most odd.

 

[Charlote]

Brilliant photos

 

[Charlote]

We saw a green Woodpecker this morning. Once we even saw a Lesser spotted woodpecker with a Green woodpecker

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

We saw a green Woodpecker this morning. Once we even saw a Lesser spotted woodpecker with a Green woodpecker

Greens and Greaters are fairly common in SE London, probably because there is a fair amount of woodland and suburban gardens. But I've never seen a Lesser spotted woodpecker.

 

[hopless500]

Turtle dove in our garden today and the past few days. Not one of a pair this year
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You are so lucky. We have had one every year for 8 years or so, but not the last two years. Also had one at work and that disappeared two years ago too and all our house martins. Had loads of nests 8 years ago and they have got less and less and now we have none

 

[Rezillo]

Our regular visitors at the moment are gangs of tree spadgers, greenfinches (up to 8 at a time), goldfinches (up to 8 at a time), a pair of yellowhammers, pair of pied wagtails, pair of dunnocks, pair of robins, a turtle dove, assorted collared doves, pigeons, a crow, a jackdaw, pair (one at a time) of great spotted woodpeckers, a jay, a green woodpecker (eats ants on the lawn), up to nine wild mallards, blackbirds, chaffinches, blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits and various magpies. In the past couple of days, two families of newly fledged starlings have occasionaly mobbed the feeders.

A shot through the window today - some of the duck gang (a noisy bunch at 5am) and five goldfinches:

Woody yesterday.