Each day we get a visit for about ten minutes of hooligan starlings. They go ballistic at the feeders then clear off.Lots of birds at the moment. Feeders going full bore, top them both up at least once a day(one is a two layer). Blue tits, great tits, green finch, goldfinch, blackbirds gleaning: only problems are the bloody wood pigeons and crows. The other problem is the rat. Can't put poison down because of the birds, I have a rat trap in a box but I have to move it at night because a hedgehog keeps getting its foot trapped in it. Wish I could find a way for it to take the trap, slathered in peanut butter and plenty of bird seed inside but it goes everywhere except in the f..king box.
They are quite common in Spain, or specifically near Torrevieja as I have seen plenty on the golf course at Villa Martin and Las Ramblasvery rare - you are privileged - where are you btw?
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/hoopoe/
We get exactly the same. We also have a number of pigeons that helpfully pick up all the spillages from off the floor.Each day we get a visit for about ten minutes of hooligan starlings. They go ballistic at the feeders then clear off.
Gotcha! About fifteen minutes ago. He's a beauty, isn't he? No idea what he is. His call was like nothing else I've heard round here. A single note, kind of echoey, ghostly, in doublets and triplets.
He was quite happy there, but he clocked me taking the photo. One click, then I looked, he was gone. Just the noise of the shutter did it.
That is a hawk of some kind,i get them,seen them a couple of times take down a bird,pluck it so it weighes less for them to carry,it is some sightSomething was got in the early hours in my garden.
Came down to find a pile of feathers and a few with flesh attached to them in the middle of the lawn.