Your favourite bird

[the_mikey]

Someone had already taken the Goldfinch, so I have chosen the Wigeon.

 

[djb1971]

swallows.

I love waiting for them to arrive and bring the summer with them. Watching them flock together on telephone lines and then they all bugger off and leave us with winter!

Edit: added pic, couldn't do it on the phone earlier!

 

[nappadang]

A first chiffchaff heralding spring is magical and the song of its cousin the Willow Warbler is even better. I could go on waxing lyrical about virtually every bird on the British list but my favourite bird has to be the Song Thrush.
When I was young, virtually every street with tall trees would have a "songie" singing in spring. Now, you are lucky to here one at all. To remedy this, I have the Song Thrush song as a ring tone.

 

[rich p]

Buzzard
They used to be non-existent down here in Sussex but have made a spectacular comeback and are now often seen gliding and soaring.
In addition an old buzzard always reminds me of @Marmion

 

[Cheddar George]

Housemartin. Serious, I love watching them, some nests on back of our house.

You feeling alright Fnaar ?
I mean, you did read the question didn't you ? That's a full toss outside of off stump begging to knocked out of the park.

Must be the heat.

 

[Cheddar George]

+1 for the Jay.

Quite a few in our local woods.

 

[Fnaar]

You feeling alright Fnaar ?
I mean, you did read the question didn't you ? That's a full toss outside of off stump begging to knocked out of the park.

Must be the heat.

There was a running joke about a female TV presenter, which seems to have been taken down... fair enough

 

[SteCenturion]

Goshawk. Just because of the footage at end of this video.
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Amazing.

Thanks for posting that video up..

Brilliant.

 

[Cubist]

Oooh, have to choose just one?

It might be the long-tailed tits that visit my garden, like little pair of lollipops nipping from tree to tree,
or it might be the robin that watches me mow the lawn, then follows me round investigating the borders when I've weeded, looking for worms.

Or it could be the any of the finches that flock in when the dandelions are in seed, or the blackbird that sat under my window the night Dad died and sang so beautifully.

Or the Thrush that uses the flat stone at the top of the garden steps as an anvil, gorging on the snails

Or the skylarks up on my favourite dog walk that appear like little pinheads in the sky singing their liquid trilling songs, they'd be in contention.

But if forced to choose just one, it would have to be nature's comedians, the little owls that live in the drystone walls all around us

 

[EltonFrog]

I was going to post a photo of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, but I see it's not that kind of thread.

 

[Mark1978]

I love birds of prey and get frequent barn owl, buzzard and kestrel sightings when i'm out on the bike. There's also some lovely hen harriers just off the A10 near Ely at Wicken Fen that I frequently see circling the fields on the way home. They are the most endangered bird of prey in the UK so it's a privilege to be able to see them so often.

 

[Alex H]

Found it hanging off the garden gate by it's wing one morning. I thought it was dead Obviously not

 

[nappadang]

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Found it hanging off the garden gate by it's wing one morning. I thought it was dead Obviously not

uninjured?

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

It's got to be the Kestrel.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIiQ-TXcuyQ

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The skylark, for its insanely joyous song. They're at their best when soaring high, and they look like this:


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I saw a couple of those once. Can you tell which one's which?


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