| I can barely contain my excitement 09:22 - Jun 21 with 889 views | GeoffSentence |
Just had a turtle dove in the garden. first one I can 100% confirm I've seen.
Apologies to the rest of you, just want to share my pleasure with the other bird nerds on here.
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:27 - Jun 21 with 848 views | Keno |
Was there a partridge in your pear tree? |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:34 - Jun 21 with 827 views | unstableblue |
I had a great birder weekend… saw on Avocet on the march, then a red kite being attacked by two lap wings!
Great stuff.
I have a pair of collared doves in the garden… a beautiful bird indeed. |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:36 - Jun 21 with 816 views | Fixed_It |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:27 - Jun 21 by Keno |
Was there a partridge in your pear tree? |
I'm waiting for the nine ladies dancing... |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:37 - Jun 21 with 813 views | GeoffSentence |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:34 - Jun 21 by unstableblue |
I had a great birder weekend… saw on Avocet on the march, then a red kite being attacked by two lap wings!
Great stuff.
I have a pair of collared doves in the garden… a beautiful bird indeed. |
Back in Ye Goode Olde Dayes I used to see great flocks of lapwings in the fields, now it is a lucky sighting if I see one or two of them.
On the other hand there were no Red Kites, and barely any buzzards in this part of the world then. | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:40 - Jun 21 with 795 views | DebsyAngel |
We have two of these doves where we are, been here years, and they are lovely. I love the cheeky little robin we have that visits here. He is so friendly and sits quite close to us, with his little head cocked to one side! |  | | |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:43 - Jun 21 with 788 views | GeoffSentence |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:40 - Jun 21 by DebsyAngel |
We have two of these doves where we are, been here years, and they are lovely. I love the cheeky little robin we have that visits here. He is so friendly and sits quite close to us, with his little head cocked to one side! |
lovely soothig clall from the Turtle Dove too.
I thought I heard one a few days ago a few hundred yards down the road from us so thought they were in the area. But am blinking delighted to back it up with a sighting, especially as it was in our grden. | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:47 - Jun 21 with 783 views | Keno |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:36 - Jun 21 by Fixed_It |
I'm waiting for the nine ladies dancing... |
just be careful you dont get a gold ring tho, very painful | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:51 - Jun 21 with 771 views | solemio |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:34 - Jun 21 by unstableblue |
I had a great birder weekend… saw on Avocet on the march, then a red kite being attacked by two lap wings!
Great stuff.
I have a pair of collared doves in the garden… a beautiful bird indeed. |
The downside with collared doves is that they keep calling UNITED, UNITED.
I just hope they support Colchester and not Manchester United.. |  | | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:09 - Jun 21 with 739 views | catch74 |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:37 - Jun 21 by GeoffSentence |
Back in Ye Goode Olde Dayes I used to see great flocks of lapwings in the fields, now it is a lucky sighting if I see one or two of them.
On the other hand there were no Red Kites, and barely any buzzards in this part of the world then. |
Kestrels seem to have vanished too and I haven’t seen a Bullfinch for years. |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:12 - Jun 21 with 731 views | solemio |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:09 - Jun 21 by catch74 |
Kestrels seem to have vanished too and I haven’t seen a Bullfinch for years. |
Yes, you used to get kestrels along motorways very frequently - and elsewhere obviously.
We occasionally see bullfinches in a wildlife reserve in St Albans. | | | |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:14 - Jun 21 with 725 views | GeoffSentence |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:09 - Jun 21 by catch74 |
Kestrels seem to have vanished too and I haven’t seen a Bullfinch for years. |
plenty of kestrels in the Ipswich-Shotley-Sudbury Golden Triangle, and the occasional Bullfnch. Always found the latter a bit tricky, mostly they seem to be in the deepest parts of hedges. | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:21 - Jun 21 with 703 views | SaleAway |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:09 - Jun 21 by catch74 |
Kestrels seem to have vanished too and I haven’t seen a Bullfinch for years. |
A few years ago, it appeared that there was a dip in Kestrel numbers, but definitely seeing more recently.... the new interchanges A14/M6 and A14 new section near huntingdon seem to have helped, as they have some nice "isolated" verges, where I assume mice/voles are doing ok, but no big ground predators get there. | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:24 - Jun 21 with 690 views | artsbossbeard |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:14 - Jun 21 by GeoffSentence |
plenty of kestrels in the Ipswich-Shotley-Sudbury Golden Triangle, and the occasional Bullfnch. Always found the latter a bit tricky, mostly they seem to be in the deepest parts of hedges. |
There's a nesting pair of Buzzards around the Belstead Brook area. They raised a single chick last year and I saw it hunting a little while back.
Kestrel, Blackcaps x2, Green Woodpecker & Wren from my dog walk yesterday in the above mentioned area.
I've not seen a Bulfinch for ages. |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:42 - Jun 21 with 669 views | SaleAway |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:09 - Jun 21 by catch74 |
Kestrels seem to have vanished too and I haven’t seen a Bullfinch for years. |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:47 - Jun 21 with 651 views | Geomorph |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:21 - Jun 21 by SaleAway |
A few years ago, it appeared that there was a dip in Kestrel numbers, but definitely seeing more recently.... the new interchanges A14/M6 and A14 new section near huntingdon seem to have helped, as they have some nice "isolated" verges, where I assume mice/voles are doing ok, but no big ground predators get there. |
We have ospreys (pair plus 3 chicks) at Foulshaw Moss a few miles down the road. Went to have a look last week which was great. However, might need to take the Hubble telescope next time rather than my binoculars as all I could see were tiny dots. |  | | |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:00 - Jun 21 with 625 views | SaleAway |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:47 - Jun 21 by Geomorph |
We have ospreys (pair plus 3 chicks) at Foulshaw Moss a few miles down the road. Went to have a look last week which was great. However, might need to take the Hubble telescope next time rather than my binoculars as all I could see were tiny dots. |
I do always find the osprey visitor centres a bit frustrating, as like you say, there's usually a mile or so of distance to avoid disturbance.... some of the webcams provide great viewing though. ( Welsh nests are good - Dyfi, Glaslyn, Clywedog).... there's a massive new visitor centre at Dyfi - and their observatory was already fantastic, if looking for a good osprey visit experience. | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:02 - Jun 21 with 613 views | Wacko |
I just had a turtle head in my back garden | |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:09 - Jun 21 with 608 views | Geomorph |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:00 - Jun 21 by SaleAway |
I do always find the osprey visitor centres a bit frustrating, as like you say, there's usually a mile or so of distance to avoid disturbance.... some of the webcams provide great viewing though. ( Welsh nests are good - Dyfi, Glaslyn, Clywedog).... there's a massive new visitor centre at Dyfi - and their observatory was already fantastic, if looking for a good osprey visit experience. |
yeah.. they usually have telescopes available but that is scuppered due to COVID.. | | | |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:15 - Jun 21 with 590 views | jaykay |
one bird of prey i haven't seen for years is the little merlin |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:18 - Jun 21 with 584 views | Geomorph |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:02 - Jun 21 by Wacko |
I just had a turtle head in my back garden |
how did that go?... :) | | | |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:21 - Jun 21 with 579 views | Ryorry |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 10:09 - Jun 21 by catch74 |
Kestrels seem to have vanished too and I haven’t seen a Bullfinch for years. |
The biggest miss for me is songthrushes - actually saw one when walking the mutt yesterday, remarkably, because that was my first sighting of one in over 6 years  |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:45 - Jun 21 with 536 views | factual_blue |
Not two turtle doves then?
Do you have a pear tree? If so, best have a look at what's in that. |  |
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| I can barely contain my excitement on 11:47 - Jun 21 with 529 views | GeoffSentence |
| I can barely contain my excitement on 09:27 - Jun 21 by Keno |
Was there a partridge in your pear tree? |
We do have a pear tree, two in fact , but there are no partridges in it, they stay in the field behind my garden. | |
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