Thread: Show Birds

Bill, I'd go with a Serin on that one. It has obvious, though thin wingbars and a bill that is stubby, but with a deep base. Also the tail is relatively deeply forked.

Barrie

Thanks Barrie - I'll go with that and add it to my images to help me ID in future, (PS -just found some images on the web that also confirm your ID Barrie, Thanks) -also just checked my list - it's a first for me, a Serin ...... I will see if it is around early tomorrow morning

Here is another - the power wire is very popular

To me the third image has "the look" of a Greenfinch, (must be a youngster?)

but I just don't know

Barrie

Serin confirmed
Spent most of the morning signing on the overhead wires

Thought I would join in the thread again with my Red Wattlebird. I get these in my garden when the callistemon is in bloom, they seem to love it (as do the Rosellas who don't seem to come by as often as they used to).

Here's some info for those interested: Red Wattlebird | BIRDS in BACKYARDS

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Out for a walk locally, saw a "speck" which didn't look quite right ... a few moments later it turned out to be this ... of course, I didn't have bins with me and the lens on the camera was the 17mm (this is now turning out to be my birding lens ) ... but a first for me locally, even if not quite a first local sighting (but not by much I reckon)



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Paul,

There have been quite a few reported in Devon over the past two or three weeks, including instances of 3 or 4 together. A presenter on Radio Devon mentioned on air that he'd had one on the way into the studio and it generated several other reports.

Barrie

thanks Barrie -
there have also been clusters of reports from W,S and E Dorset recently, and I read that there was a roost found of 4 or 5 about 25 miles south of here.
I did see one a few years ago about 12 miles E of here (technically Somerset I suppose), but it doesn't get well watched up here except for a guy who comes up to do squares now and again.
are these migratory birds or as a result of releases I wonder?
It was a bit high too see with the naked eye, this one, but I don't think it was wing-tagged and I think the release project birds are tagged (?)
anyway I stuck a report into Bird News Extra but they haven't seen fit to print it yet ...

Paul

that's the nearest I got a few weeks ago, (farther North of course - I went up there expecting to see a few)

I think that is a crow pretending to be it's mate

Presumably they got fed up of the chicken legs they were feeding them in Wallington and have moved further South for the summer

In about 1992, I was driving East (or possibly South) through the Stokenchurch Gap on the M40, with my mate Jon (a lifelong birder) ... I saw something and asked "What's that bird up there Jonny boy?" ... well his head nearly exploded, as he'd never seen one before, and it was a major tick on those days ...

Yesterday at the beach, my girlfriend spotted this hawk being harassed by what I think is a mocking bird. This went on for about an hour before the hawk had enough and flew off.
Fuji Xpro1 60mm, cropped, no other adjustments.

Bird attacks Hawk 1 by Winginkris, on Flickr

Bird attacks Hawk 2 by Winginkris, on Flickr

Bird attacks Hawk 3 by Winginkris, on Flickr

Bird attacks Hawk 4 by Winginkris, on Flickr

Bird attacks Hawk 5 by Winginkris, on Flickr