What's Buzzing or Flying near you today......2016

Avocets in the sun yesterday.




Today.




Reed Bunting.


Female Kestrel.


By the River Frome at Wareham there were a dozen Barnacle Geese (the ones with an all white face) amongst the larger, more brown Canada Geese, they are very rarely seen around here.

 

More from my 'back garden'
With Peregrines' around, two pairs of eyes are better than one.


Greater Black Backed Gull.


Buzzard.

 

A Northern Mockingbird. We do not see these often.

 

Nice bird, they have a similar look to the Jay.

 

If you have some running ditches then they're be drinking from them, even though we put water out for the birds you will still see them in the ditches, drinking and washing

 

Hi Shiney, putting something like a golf ball in the water bowls helps, they should be able to get their beaks in later in the day, you can also buy this
Ice Free for Bird Baths

Hope your feeling better soon take care and keep warm

 

An attractive bird @hydrogardener, you have had some unusual birds lately (to us anyway) what other regulars do you get? our European Sparrows and Starlings or your Robin?
I have seen American Robins and Red Winged Blackbirds on a US trip some years ago.
Perhaps I will see a Mockingbird if we come over next year.

 

A juvenile Buzzard. They're virtually lining the roads around here at the moment waiting for roadkill or something to grab out the ditch, but worth carefully checking as occasionally it's a Hen Harrier.

 

Just to mention a few: tufted titmouse, canaries, blue birds, nuthatches, cardinals, juncos, grosbeaks, and an assortment of woodpeckers. We have a recent arrival from the south, the Carolina Wren. In the spring, we have robins, grackles, cow birds and humming birds. There are most likely many more that I missed. Carolina Wren is below. Oh, I forgot, sparrows.

 

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