WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU 2019

They use the same nest boxes as Bluebirds so there is a conflict over housing. Hopefully, I will see who the winner is sometime in the near future. This little lady was watching the nest box with an anxious look. Someone had destroyed some of the boxes, vandals are even in the boonies I guess. Oh, I almost forgot, Eastern Bluebird.

 

Any idea what these are please - and yes I know they are ducks.

 

@Sheal Hybrid Mallard maybe crossed with Khaki Campbell.


@hydrogardener You could get some action then, I did see some Mountain Bluebirds last summer in Colorado but they were all juveniles so very little blue on them.


Durlston cliffs this morning.
Peregrine Falcon.


Common Whitethroat.


Female Linnet.


Fulmar Petrels.

 

Thanks @strongylodon. There's irony in your suggestion of Khaki Campbell. I took the shot in Glencoe last week.

 

@Sheal They were named after a Mrs Campbell who initiated the breeding of them. as they laid more prolifically than farm ducks.

 

Who's our butterfly expert on GC? It's not a cabbage female white I suppose...

 

Yep, tis female orange tip, do you want some males as we have a few here

 

We had two young Pied Wagtails in the garden recently but no pics. This is the first young Siskin although we have two pairs of adults around.

 

what a dear little sprog...

 

@Jenny namaste It was a bit risky resting on the lawn after it had breakfast so I encouraged it to move up into the trees out of the way of marauding cats.

 

I've only had one male Siskin here this Spring. Plenty of Greenfinches though.

 

Two very distant Whimbrel just arrived from Africa, similar to Curlew but with a shorted more sharply curved bill.


A more confiding female Bar Tailed Godwit.


Pochard.


Great Crested Grebe on nest.


There is still a small flock of Cattle Egrets here, whether they will bred I don't know but I hope so as they are breeding in Somerset and Cornwall.

 

Osprey



It was taken at extreme range, perhaps as much as one third to half a mile, I'll check from my online OS map and hard copy.