| Turtle Doves 08:12 - May 17 with 1315 views | GeoffSentence |
They are making an appearance now. First one of the year in this little patch of the Ipswich-Shotley-Sudbury Golden Triangle was perched on my neighbour's house this morning.
Just waiting for a cuckoo now, though the previously resident cuckoo went awol a few years back and I only catch the odd one passing through now. |  |
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| Turtle Doves on 08:23 - May 17 with 1290 views | Guthrum |
Heard a cuckoo a couple of weeks ago, but that was in Scotland. First swifts over the wekend.
On doves, my mother gets stock doves in her garden, a very solitary bird:
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| Turtle Doves on 08:29 - May 17 with 1284 views | GeoffSentence |
| Turtle Doves on 08:23 - May 17 by Guthrum |
Heard a cuckoo a couple of weeks ago, but that was in Scotland. First swifts over the wekend.
On doves, my mother gets stock doves in her garden, a very solitary bird:
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I hear a lot more stock doves than I see. They rarely venture into the gardens round here, but you can hear them in the woods frequently. | |
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| Turtle Doves on 08:55 - May 17 with 1260 views | SonOfSpock |
| Turtle Doves on 08:23 - May 17 by Guthrum |
Heard a cuckoo a couple of weeks ago, but that was in Scotland. First swifts over the wekend.
On doves, my mother gets stock doves in her garden, a very solitary bird:
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Likewise we've seen the first swifts doing their circuits around the garden.
The robins are making a return and have seen a few Goldfinches as well.
Saw my first wren this morning as well. All is good with the world coming into warmer times! |  | | |
| Turtle Doves on 09:24 - May 17 with 1232 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Good news, hopefully ours will arrive too then. |  |
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| Turtle Doves on 18:09 - May 17 with 1152 views | factual_blue |
Just two of them I imagine. |  |
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| Turtle Doves on 20:38 - May 17 with 1119 views | GeoffSentence |
| Turtle Doves on 18:09 - May 17 by factual_blue |
Just two of them I imagine. |
There were two. Or maybe it was the same one twice. | |
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| Turtle Doves on 09:40 - Jun 12 with 928 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Turtle Doves on 09:24 - May 17 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Good news, hopefully ours will arrive too then. |
Bad news this year. We had 3 pairs two years ago, one pair last year and this year nothing!! | |
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| Turtle Doves on 11:11 - Jun 12 with 896 views | ElephantintheRoom |
I have two pairs nesting in my garden. It’s almost turtle dove hunting season in my neck of the woods - and blackbirds and skylarks. Bit late for cuckoos. In June they change tune - July they fly away |  |
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| Turtle Doves on 13:59 - Jun 12 with 851 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Turtle Doves on 09:40 - Jun 12 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Bad news this year. We had 3 pairs two years ago, one pair last year and this year nothing!! |
They have obviously moved to Geoff's. You should stop putting up the rent you greedy capitalist! |  |
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| Turtle Doves on 14:03 - Jun 12 with 841 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Turtle Doves on 13:59 - Jun 12 by Nthsuffolkblue |
They have obviously moved to Geoff's. You should stop putting up the rent you greedy capitalist! |
When I say "we" I mean the village collective!! | |
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| Turtle Doves on 15:16 - Jun 12 with 815 views | GeoffSentence |
| Turtle Doves on 13:59 - Jun 12 by Nthsuffolkblue |
They have obviously moved to Geoff's. You should stop putting up the rent you greedy capitalist! |
So far as I could tell mine was a solitary male looking for a mate. Sadly I don't think my dove found love and he seems to have moved on. | |
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| Turtle Doves on 18:14 - Jun 12 with 775 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Turtle Doves on 15:16 - Jun 12 by GeoffSentence |
So far as I could tell mine was a solitary male looking for a mate. Sadly I don't think my dove found love and he seems to have moved on. |
Not good and it looks like house martin numbers are greatly down too. | |
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| Turtle Doves on 18:32 - Jun 12 with 748 views | Coastalblue |
| Turtle Doves on 18:14 - Jun 12 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Not good and it looks like house martin numbers are greatly down too. |
One of the things I miss most since moving from the country was when I used to sit outside in the evening and the air above me would be full of the Housemartins that used to nest on our house.
A nice cold one, warm evening and at one with nature, even the (then) wife struggled to spoil that. |  |
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| Turtle Doves on 19:04 - Jun 12 with 718 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Turtle Doves on 18:14 - Jun 12 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Not good and it looks like house martin numbers are greatly down too. |
I saw loads when I was out walking today; just me and the farmer. |  |
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| Turtle Doves on 11:18 - Jun 13 with 653 views | GeoffSentence |
| Turtle Doves on 18:32 - Jun 12 by Coastalblue |
One of the things I miss most since moving from the country was when I used to sit outside in the evening and the air above me would be full of the Housemartins that used to nest on our house.
A nice cold one, warm evening and at one with nature, even the (then) wife struggled to spoil that. |
As a child I had a house martin nest under the eaves just above my bedroom window. There were a few such nests on the houses round our way then, though ironically not on the house where the Martins lived, but it is decades since I have actually seen a house martin nest. Where do they all nest now? | |
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| Turtle Doves on 11:37 - Jun 13 with 642 views | Chondzoresk |
Good to hear.
Mellis area loads of Swallows, swifts screaming. Alas zero Turtle Doves. On the plus side the Grey Partridge is about in abundance. Barn Owls are doing well, several Little Owls. Saw my first Red Kite a month or so ago. Buzzards are two a Penny. |  | | |
| Turtle Doves on 08:38 - Jun 14 with 577 views | GeoffSentence |
| Turtle Doves on 11:37 - Jun 13 by Chondzoresk |
Good to hear.
Mellis area loads of Swallows, swifts screaming. Alas zero Turtle Doves. On the plus side the Grey Partridge is about in abundance. Barn Owls are doing well, several Little Owls. Saw my first Red Kite a month or so ago. Buzzards are two a Penny. |
Good news today. Michael Dove is back, sitting on my chimney and making quite a bit of noise.
Talking of firsts, I got my first sight of marsh harriers on Saturday, whilst sitting in a pub beer garden in Reedham, they were just gliding about a few yards away on the other side of the river without a care in the world. | |
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