The Birds In The Garden And Everywhere Else Thread

[Darran]

I've never been so close to a Cuckoo! 😮
It flew down and landed about 5 metres from where I was stood! Incredible... and magical! 😍
Taken this evening at RSPB Greylake in Somerset!😀🐦 pic.twitter.com/L3ozlAkVqD

— Carl Bovis (@CarlBovisNature) May 7, 2024

 

[Darran]

And here is chick 2, hatching at 07:37 this morning

Nature is amazing pic.twitter.com/1R30ImwRZg

— Dyfi Osprey Project (@DyfiOspreys) May 22, 2024

 

[Darran]

I just love Cuckoos! 😍
This one showed off its wings and tail as it landed on a post at RSPB Greylake in Somerset last week. 😀🐦 pic.twitter.com/tDesNPeS2P

— Carl Bovis (@CarlBovisNature) May 22, 2024

 

[Darran]

Sand Martin at the Weir. Aberavon. S Wales. pic.twitter.com/RhxiBCZ55d

— kevin (Birdman) willans (@kevinwillans5) May 27, 2024

 

[Darran]

A migrant Bluethroat among the lichen-strewn boulders at Virkie, Shetland last week. Stunner. pic.twitter.com/OTyI3ShwSe

— Hugh Harrop Wildlife (@HughHarrop) May 27, 2024

 

[K23]

I was on my way home on Friday across the Somerset Levels and was only a few minutes from home when a guy flagged me down to ask me if I knew where there was a metal plate across the road. I told him I'd just driven over it, gave him directions and asked him why he wanted to know that. He said a guy had just messaged him on Twitter that there's a mega-rare bird been sighted near there, an American Golden Plover. I went home, looked on line and it said "Normally a bird that migrates from North to South America, a few individuals are recorded in Britain each autumn" so I picked up a camera and drove over there which only took 4-5 minutes and when I got there the guy was just getting out of his car so I joined him and we only had to walk about 200 yards and there it was, just sitting in a field near a couple of pools about 100 yards away, occasionally pecking at the ground. So here's a photograph I took of a genuine rarity:

 

[Darran]

This is Incredible! This Osprey managed to hoist out a big Gafftopsail catfish from the ocean. pic.twitter.com/WzSZqKC4rp

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 9, 2024

 

[K23]

Spent a few days in northern France this week and spotted this lovely female Cuckoo in a tree quite close to me and just managed to get this pic as she was turning away before disappearing

Then about 20 minutes later spotted her again in a more static pose but a bit further away

 

[Darran]

Not the usual thing you find in a Wren's nest pic.twitter.com/KLdTrk7X16

— Jeremy.Gates (@Jeremy_Gates67) June 16, 2024

 

[Niigata Jack]

Not the usual thing you find in a Wren's nest pic.twitter.com/KLdTrk7X16

— Jeremy.Gates (@Jeremy_Gates67) June 16, 2024

This one is a legend

 

[Darran]

Volume up 🔊

A Corncrake 'singing' in the central Mainland of Shetland this week.

Breeding Corncrakes (locally known as Skillricraigs) are few and far between here in Shetland these days, but an increase in calling males in Scotland in 2023 hopefully represents a turning point… pic.twitter.com/wPp1AsoI10

— Hugh Harrop Wildlife (@HughHarrop) June 23, 2024

 

[Cooperman]

This is Incredible! This Osprey managed to hoist out a big Gafftopsail catfish from the ocean. pic.twitter.com/WzSZqKC4rp

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 9, 2024

That’s quite incredible.

 

[Cooperman]

I won’t search through fifty odd pages, but in the case it hasn’t been mentioned, the phone app ‘Merlin Bird ID’ will be of interest to you.

It works on the very simple concept of identifying birds through their song. I used it for the first time last night whilst sat in the garden.

 

[Darran]

Gnoll Park earlier today.
Bob Pickett is a brilliant photographer.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Swansea Zoo.

'Do not approach' plea as creature escapes from zoo

'Do not approach' plea as creature escapes from zoo

The public have been asked not to approach the non-native bird themselves, as it may be 'shy and scared', but the Plantasia attraction has stressed it's 'not in any way dangerous'

www.walesonline.co.uk