Tag: Birds
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Haldon Forest
An evening outing to Haldon Forest, to make sound recordings of nightjars.
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Dawlish Warren
We went over to the Warren for a little while this morning. The good weather didn’t last long but the sunshine was warm and it was wonderful to be out in the fresh air.
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Success!
I fixed up this bird table outside my kitchen window several months ago but didn’t have a single visitor until today – now the blackbirds are fighting each other to feed on it.
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Albinistic blackbird
I caught sight of a blackbird like this one on several occasions last year, but it was down in the park. It’s just begun visiting our gardens and is around most days at the moment. The cold weather is making birdwatching from the window a lot more interesting: so far, in addition to the heron,…
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Christmas presence
I’ve been trying for a while to get some pictures of the heron and today I got lucky. Photos taken at 8.45 on Christmas morning.
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Nest building
A woodpigeon is still working away at snapping twigs off the eucalyptus tree. Recently I read that birds sometimes line their nests with mint and lavender which helps to keep them clean – I’m not sure if the wood of eucalyptus would have this effect (as opposed to the leaves) but the pigeon seems very…
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Nesting woodpigeon
A woodpigeon spent several hours collecting nest materials from the eucalyptus tree this morning, snapping off single twigs and carrying them away one by one.
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Swifts
Group of about 15 swifts spotted mid-morning.
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Thirsty gulls and more crickets
Heavy rain this morning at about 8.45 am. Two juvenile gulls on a nearby roof were throwing their heads back and apparently drinking it – something I’ve never seen before. At the same time a woodpigeon on another roof seemed to be having a bath – cocking up first one wing then the other and…
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Cricket
A buzzard was calling at about 11.30 am this morning. Went to the postbox this afternoon and saw some ripe blackberries on a patch of waste ground outside someone’s garden fence. A good crop of rowanberries on all the trees and the lime flowers have set seed. A Green Bush Cricket seems to be living…