Once again my listing’s a bit later than normal today, a lot on at the moment. Still had a chance to check at breakfast & lunch for a few birds and came up with a decent list, including just one fieldfare today:
Hopefully have a few more photos for the site soon.
The birds I saw today were in my garden:
Sorry my post is so late, sadly it’s not because I was out birding it was due to working from 6am till 8pm with a short break to see some birds which my dog had alerted me to due to the different calls they were making; he gets worried when there’s different noises from the garden birds as it usually means a cat or sparrowhawk is about. Today it wasn’t due to any predatory birds or cats but instead a pair of fieldfare making a fair bit of noise, another first for the year. Here’s the birds I’ve seen today:
I tried to get shots of the Fieldfares but they were far away in bad light, I did get some record shots which I hope to add soon.
Once again it was in my garden.
I hope everyone’s had a good day, if you’ve been out birding feel free to join the site and add your bird lists to the website and share the joy of birding with the world! My garden was a little busier than yesterday and almost all the snow has melted here in Edinburgh, although the Pentlands still look fantastic with their white covering. Here’s my garden bird list for today:
My location as ever in my garden.
The snow started falling at about 9am today, but even before that I’d only seen 1 blackbird and since not much has changed, probably the biggest number of Blue tits I’ve had at one time in the garden but very little else:
I’m hoping to take a gentle stroll around a pond later today after seeing the surgeon that did my last operation which sadly hasn’t worked. Maybe able to add a few more birds.
The garden bird list today is a bit short, but I was very happy to see 12 house sparrows they’re so great to hear the noisy chatter in the garden:
Managed to get out to Aberlady to the SOC Waterston House to see the new Laurie Campbell nature photography exhibition – find out more as with all of Laurie’s work it was fantastic! The crowd was very small, by the time it was closing only 1 other person was there, however we didn’t get there until quite late due to work and slow going on the roads due to snow.
With the snow I thought there’d be a lot more birds in the garden, especially as I was outside filling the feeders at about midnight so I knew they’d be full for the morning, hardly anything’s been touched, here’s my list so far, hopefully update later in the day:
The ground has frozen solid in my garden and the birds seem very busy flying around but not settling long enough to see what they are, they don’t seem that interested in the feeders today, I had noticed a fair few insects in the air yesterday which surprised me for such a cold winters day. Off to watch BBC Winterwatch on the iplayer and see if Chris Packham’s added any more Madness song titles to his list, here’s my very cold morning’s garden bird count:
Just watching BBC’s Winterwatch on the iplayer – I don’t have a TV licence so can’t watch it live – I had started noticing that Chris Packham has been adding Madness song titles, but I don’t know enough of their songs so I probably missed a few. My garden’s been slightly quieter today, but I hope to get a bit more bird watching in later during a lunch break. I did get lucky and spot 2 bullfinches out of the window whilst watching winterwatch:
The snow is still lying on the ground but there seems to be very few birds around in my garden. I’ve just been watching BBC’s Winterwatch episode 2; if you’re a fan of Long-tailed Tits there’s a great piece about 9 or 10 minutes in: BBC iplayer Winterwatch I’ve only seen them roosting once before, but not nestling down, just a pure accident. Here’s my garden bird list so far, hope to update later in the day.
Out for a gentle stroll to the park.
As many regular viewers of the site would know I’ve had 3 torn ankle tendons in the past 4 years and major screw ups from the NHS causing long lasting pain but I was a landscape photographer (can’t currently work at that) and really NEED to walk! It’s my hobby, my job, my passion! So when I feel I can do some I get out for gentle strolls with a walking stick, whilst at Saint Margaret’s Park I saw my first Pied Wagtail for the year, plus a few other birds:
I haven’t had a lot of time to look outside today, but the snow’s still lying and we’ve had a good list of birds already:
