It was another very quiet day in the garden today, a few carrion crows flying overhead and the tawny owl was out and about last night but very little else so Iāve added some photos from the balcony of my old flat in Sydney Australia:
Rainbow Lorikeet at the flat in Sydney.
Rainbow Lorikeet takes a bath
Rainbow Lorikeet shakes after a bath.
Our flock of Rainbow Lorikeets
Another very quiet day in my garden, just 3 types of birds, I added a robin to yesterdayās list as I saw it just before midnight in Tescos Corstorphine hanging out in the bakery section of the store, photo, sorry poor quality from a camera phone:
Robin in Tesco bakery section, enjoying the croissants.
As well as my garden bird list:
I managed to take a walk down toĀ Saint Margaretās Park in Corstorphine and saw:
Wow it was incredibly quiet in the garden today, very little moving at all, we did have a dog that isnāt ours (the birds are used to Chewie and generally ignore him) that was found walking the street, so while waiting to find the owner Scooby was running around our garden and I think this maybe why so few birds, as only 2 species and 9 birds in total:
The sparrows did look like they were mating though.
As usual my bird list was seen in the garden today:
Just after midnight last night I heard a Tawny Owl, first Iāve heard since moving into my new place a bit further down Corstorphine Hill than I used to live, a bit of a surprise as thereās a lot less trees around here. Ā Thanks to Edinburgh Hawkwatch for their page on ā Tawny Owl ā EdinburghĀ for a little more detail about Tawny Owls in the area. Ā Whilst watching the Rugby I noticed a very large bird arrive on the horizon I thought thatās too big to be a gull it has to be something else, it continued to fly straight towards me and it was a heron, another first for the year, hereās the garden bird list Iāve seen today:
Had a very quiet day in the garden today, however an hour before sunset about 60 carrion crows flew overhead, a great sight! Ā Tonight I got to see the talk by Laurie Campbell about his photos over the years and his new ones from the Isle of Harris, thanks so much to Jane at the SOCĀ ā follow on twitter: ScottishBirdingĀ for arranging the tickets for me after I missed out on the sales! Ā For more info about the photo exhibition head to: Laurie Campbell SOCĀ ā now onto my garden bird list for today:
A very quiet day in the garden today, didnāt get to see a lot of birds at all, but nice to see the Coal tit back, there were about 70 gulls flying overhead but I couldnāt tell you what type they were as they were caught in a massive gust of wind and went by very fast. Ā Would love to be out seeing cracking birds such as the Water Rail that was photo of the week on Bird Guides –Ā Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)Ā – Hereās my list of birds I saw today:
On the gust of wind –Ā about 70 gulls, but not sure what type.Ā
The wind has really picked up here in Edinburgh, even with the massive amount of wind about there were a lot of insects in the air today and few birds, I gather the insect prey is too great of an attraction than the seed I put out for them. Ā Strangely not a single coal tit, thatās a very rare situation! Ā Hereās the bird list for today:
Any day with greenfinches is a good day in the garden! Ā There were 2, actually most of the birds were 2 or more:
Sorry my carpal tunnelās flared very badly over the last few days, I would have liked to have written more about the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and other posts. Ā On top of the birds listed below there were 5 gulls flying over head but I couldnāt see what they were. Ā Hereās the list from my garden today:
Today I did a second 1 hour bird count for the RSPBās big garden birdwatch, the weather was nice and sunny and amazingly there were insects out again so few birds were in the garden feeding as there was plenty of food elsewhere. Ā Only 3 species showed up, the always faithful blackbird ā I think itās been listed in every single garden counts Iāve done this year! Ā Hereās the extensive full list:
