Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

[manimanc]

Just stood outside Greggs on Piccadily and this pigeon was literally doing a hoverbird trying to each someone's sausage roll or whatever they was having.
Couldn't believe what I just witnessed, never seen that before.

 

[Nascent Blues]

Just had a flock of waxwings visit my garden and watched them decimate a berry tree.

 

[KS55]

Just stood outside Greggs on Piccadily and this pigeon was literally doing a hoverbird trying to each someone's sausage roll or whatever they was having.
Couldn't believe what I just witnessed, never seen that before.

It’s usually gulls that do that. Once on the ferry to Mull a gull kept pace with me as I gifted it parts of my sandwich. He picked them off the rail.

 

[give it to gordon]

Sadly this wind turbine has done been taken down. It hasnt worked in decades and was home to two peregrine falcons. These use to visit my garden regularly I hope they have found a new home.

Removal of wind turbine at Richborough ‘will mean loss of nesting Peregrine Falcons and Ravens’

A Thanet nature expert says the removal of a wind turbine at the Richborough Power Station site will destroy the nesting site of a pair of breeding Peregrines and Ravens. The turbine is to be remov…

theisleofthanetnews.com

 

[NorCalBlue]

Just had a flock of waxwings visit my garden and watched them decimate a berry tree.

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Same here!

 

[Nascent Blues]

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Same here!

There seems to be a noticeable difference between the sunlight levels in each picture!

 

[idahoblues]

There seems to be a noticeable difference between the sunlight levels in each picture!

It’s great when those flocks aka Museums or Ear Fulls get into hundreds of birds, the noise is amazing.

 

[idahoblues]

Got at least three, maybe four Great Horned owls hooting outside right now, one in a tree on my property

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Blue Tit Taken a few years ago, beautiful birds and great little Characters.

 

[KS55]

Got at least three, maybe four Great Horned owls hooting outside right now, one in a tree on my property
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Tawnies used to sit on the bay window roof a foot from my bedroom window and hoot for fun. Tended to keep me awake, the bastards.