What's buzzing or flying near you 2023 ?

Thanks to @pete's latest joke, I've just found out that we've got crested tits coming to feed on the terrace, along with the blue tits, coal tits and bullfinches The hoopoe's anti-social, he's concentrating on turning over all the moss in the orchard.

 

@noisette, only found in a few ancient forests in Scotland, some pics would be nice.

 

Righty-o...will camp by the French windows with the mobile this afternoon..

 

He hasn't shown yet, but Wiki seems to bear out the possibility
'The crested tit or European crested tit (Lophophanes cristatus) (formerly Parus cristatus), is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder in coniferous forests throughout central and northern Europe and in deciduous woodland in France and the Iberian peninsula. ' We're surrounded by little patches of deciduous woodland.....

 

Juvenile White Tailed Eagle, Great Northern Diver and Black Necked Grebe seen on this afternoons bird boat cruise around Poole Harbour.

 

In Australia at the moment for sons wedding

 

@zenj We had a Rainbow Parakeet land on our table wanting to share our lunch and shared a park bench with White Ibises in Sydney a few years ago, close up they really look prehistoric. Locally known as Bin Chickens!

 

A rather elusive Cirl Bunting on Portland, one of our rarest resident birds only found at a few sites in Devon so even rarer to see one in Dorset. A close relative of the Yellowhammer. It didn't show very well.

 

Midges were out and about just as it was getting dark.

 

Female Black Redstart and Dipper, Lyme Regis.

 

Redwing.


Fieldfare.

 

Yesterday, I saw our smallest and largest UK birds within two minutes.
A Goldcrest was feeding outside one of the hides at RSPB Arne and inside I could see a White Tailed Sea Eagle in the distance, it soon flew off showing it's size.