What's buzzing or flying near you 2022 ?

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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I thought it was, but I'm not good at IDing butterflies
     
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      We went for a walk around Keyhaven marshes near Lymington and after zooming in on what looked like a large Buzzard, was in fact one of the Isle of Whight White Tailed Eagles. From a reintroduction programme started 3 years ago. They have wandered all over the UK and Europe but return to where they were fledged and hopefully in a year or two when mature, might breed.
      Distant but the huge beak makes it unmistakeable.
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        pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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        @strongylodon ,I know this is not a good picture, but can you ID this bird.
        It looked pretty big to me and I took it at the IOW, someone said it was a raven, but it was more than twice the size of a crow.
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        Not buzzing of flying yet...
        Any idea what might come out of it?

        Sitting on an amelanchier by the way
         
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          @pete, not 100% sure but it could be one of the Eagles but it would be 4/5 times the size of a crow . Not easy to id from those pics.
           
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            @Black Dog, looks like a Hebrew Character Moth caterpillar.:smile:
             
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              pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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              Well, as I say the pictures are not good, it was high in a tree at Ventnor botanical gardens and making quite a racket, but it was big.
              Thanks for trying.
               
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                Thanks
                 
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                Good afternoon:smile:

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                  Pigeons! The "Flying rats" of the air!

                  We live in a block of flats which has 4 balconies on each of its 6 floors. The ground floor balconies jut out about 6" or so from the balconies above us. This is obviously the drip line from above. This has never been a particular problem until this last winter as we don;t generally get enough rain to make it a nuisance.

                  But, & this is where I start to "moan" about pigeons! These rats of the air sit on the balcony railing about 4 floors above us & let their dropping fall into our balcony! Now there have always been a few dropping but this winter it has been very difficult to get out onto the balcony, especially if it is wet, as their dropping foul the floor & make it quite slippery as well as unhealthy!

                  I thought they perched on the guttering at the very top of the building as that would correspond to our drip line, but a few days ago I saw that wasn't the place but the railings on the balcony about 4 or 5 above us.

                  As I've wanted to go out on the balcony more this month, with the drier & sunnier weather, I've been forced to use a stiff brush to try to clean the dropping away before I could do anything out there.

                  Their dropping have also forced me to renounce a row of pots along there as the plants get covered in droppings. I, myself, have also felt the effects of these birds! Not very pleasant I can assure you!

                  Last year they attempted to nest on some shelving I have fixed to an end wall of the balcony & I had to constantly shoo them away. Eventually they seemed to get the idea as they gave up after a few weeks, But this year they seem to be getting the same idea again. I've already had to shoo them away on several occasions this month alone!

                  A few days ago I even found a dead pigeon under the table in a corner of the balcony! It can only have been there a few days as I have been going underneath it to get compost out. I hadn't seen it before & it's the first time in 20 years we have found anything dead (other than plants of flowers!) on it!

                  On top of this I also have my wife telling me off for shooing the d* things away!

                  Ahh, the life of a balcony gardener!
                   
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                    Not exactly flying. More paddling. The first visitor to our new birdbath.

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                      @wiseowl I think we are more likely to see these Red Legs more than we ever see our 'common' Grey Partridge although they are far more colourful.:smile:

                      A very close view of a Greenshank at Brownsea Island today.
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                        Good evening @strongylodon my friend and thank you very much appreciated as always:smile::blue thumb:
                         
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                        Good afternoon nearly fell over this one :smile:

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