rockyroller
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- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
hehe adorable!
Your day's wildlife
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
One of our regular Blackbirds having a bath
View: https://www.facebook.com/100001865244051/videos/5262930067112449/
View: https://www.facebook.com/100001865244051/videos/5262930067112449/
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Took the dogs to Mothecombe beach this afternoon. We saw some Wigeon and a Little Egret.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A starling just before his coconut shell lunch .
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LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
- Location
- Whitehaven Mansions
Out with the kids this afternoon and we saw and heard a rather large woodpecker. No photo as it was too far away for the zoom on my iphone to cope with.
Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
No photos but I saw a couple of yellowhammers darting about on my dawn run this morning and they made me so happy!
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
A buzzard in a tree in Yealmpton
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Wembury beach this afternoon, a strawberry anemone
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Set our camera up to watch a feeder full of niger seeds over the weekend expecting to see gold finches but i got a nice blue tit instead
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
More Wembury wandering
Rugged oil beetle.
Rugged oil beetle.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
what fun looking antenna!
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
She’s back .....
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
Seven redwings perched on a tree in our inner urban road yesterday. I have never knowingly seen any before. They are apparently winter visitors that are not uncommon in the countryside but definitely a first for me. Close relatives of the thrush, they differ by having the reddish side-streak and the white flash over the eye. Picture below is not mine but shows how the bird got its name:
My bird book says it migrates at night, so I wonder if they got blown into town with the strong winds of the previous night.
https://www.birdguides.com/articles/identification/redwing-and-rarer-relatives-photo-id-guide/
My bird book says it migrates at night, so I wonder if they got blown into town with the strong winds of the previous night.
https://www.birdguides.com/articles/identification/redwing-and-rarer-relatives-photo-id-guide/
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Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Peregrines are nesting on a ledge on central Nottingham's Newton Building for the 20th year in succession.
I was working in a building opposite, unfortunately below the level of the ledge, when the first ones appeared and watched their courtship and subsequent fledglings. Link here: Peregrine Nest Cam | Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Edit: that spring, 20 years ago, was also my first sighting of a Black Redstart, on a flat roof adjacent to my office. My work rate may have suffered that day.
I was working in a building opposite, unfortunately below the level of the ledge, when the first ones appeared and watched their courtship and subsequent fledglings. Link here: Peregrine Nest Cam | Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Edit: that spring, 20 years ago, was also my first sighting of a Black Redstart, on a flat roof adjacent to my office. My work rate may have suffered that day.
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CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
No decent picture sadly, but I've just learned that wood pigeons take showers. I know birds bathe, but I never knew any of them showered.
I'm currently watching a wood pigeon sitting on an exposed tree branch across the road; The heavens opened, and he started putting a wing in the air, like when a human puts an arm in the air in the shower to wash under their pits. He'd alternate wings so both sides got a good dousing. It was comical, I expected him to grab some soap and start singing. Once the rain stopped his wings went down and he started preening under hisarm pits wing pits.
I surprised the Google AI no doubt with the batsh1t enquiry "Do pigeons shower?" And RSPB said yes, it is a thing! Wood pigeons prefer to use falling water to shower in rather than bathing in pools like other birds. They've been seen using public fountains in the same way. I'm not sure why but that's delighted me.
I'm currently watching a wood pigeon sitting on an exposed tree branch across the road; The heavens opened, and he started putting a wing in the air, like when a human puts an arm in the air in the shower to wash under their pits. He'd alternate wings so both sides got a good dousing. It was comical, I expected him to grab some soap and start singing. Once the rain stopped his wings went down and he started preening under his
I surprised the Google AI no doubt with the batsh1t enquiry "Do pigeons shower?" And RSPB said yes, it is a thing! Wood pigeons prefer to use falling water to shower in rather than bathing in pools like other birds. They've been seen using public fountains in the same way. I'm not sure why but that's delighted me.
