FrankCrank
Old layabout
.....oops, silly me, that should be choughs. Yes, I am indeed talking about our feathered friends.
Over this way I've not seen any of the ones mentioned, but we do have cormorants.
I think I'm right in saying you can only get a shag in coastal areas, and I believe the same is true for boobies.
Anyways, enough of this frivolity. I like to cycle most mornings and evenings, and have taken up a sort of hobby in trying to identify the local birds.
On a typical jaunt I'd say I can get most of them correct now, but would not consider myself a twitcher really, just something to amuse myself I suppose.
Common sightings are things like storks, lapwings, terns, stilts, egrets, herons, golden weavers, pipits, swiftlets, ibis - not surprising given the flatland paddy-field area around here.
Other infrequent ones are bee-eaters, Indian rollers, kingfishers etc.
Very rare sightings are buzzards, owlets, and even a night jar on one occasion.
Regular visitors to our garden include bulbuls, mynas, fantails, pied starlings and tailor birds.
Like I say, it gives another angle to what might become a bit humdrum.
So, does anyone else here have an eye for the birds?......
Over this way I've not seen any of the ones mentioned, but we do have cormorants.
I think I'm right in saying you can only get a shag in coastal areas, and I believe the same is true for boobies.
Anyways, enough of this frivolity. I like to cycle most mornings and evenings, and have taken up a sort of hobby in trying to identify the local birds.
On a typical jaunt I'd say I can get most of them correct now, but would not consider myself a twitcher really, just something to amuse myself I suppose.
Common sightings are things like storks, lapwings, terns, stilts, egrets, herons, golden weavers, pipits, swiftlets, ibis - not surprising given the flatland paddy-field area around here.
Other infrequent ones are bee-eaters, Indian rollers, kingfishers etc.
Very rare sightings are buzzards, owlets, and even a night jar on one occasion.
Regular visitors to our garden include bulbuls, mynas, fantails, pied starlings and tailor birds.
Like I say, it gives another angle to what might become a bit humdrum.
So, does anyone else here have an eye for the birds?......