WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU TODAY - 2017

Yes definetley an adult Great Crested Grebe @shiney

 

A lousy picture through my car window. I didn't dare get out as he/she would have taken flight.

Buzzard?

 

We have a lot of pigeons here...tamed or what plus the pigeon is enough to strip paint off your cars, god knows what the neighbours feed them

 

Long Tailed Tits and Pied Wagtail in a frosty back garden, taken through double glazing so not sharp.






Chiffchaffs at the sewage works. The heat from the filter beds provide a lot a of insects and up to 20 over winter there plus Goldcrests, Firecrests, Pied and Grey Wagtails.






Plenty of Redwings around in the fields but always wary.

 

@strongylodon Beautiful captures to say how the weather is the birds here tonight singing away like it was spring, come summer i'll be able to catch some nice shoots

 

Pigeon sat in the snow today, I need to take this tree down soon as its becoming rotten and dangerous shame really its a regular observation spot for a few birds.

 

Snow today in the NE here's a visitor

 

Hi Shiney I cant save much of it I will take it down to hedge height there's a lot of weight near the top and things have already started falling off, last time I went up it on the ladders the whole tree was moving, it would kill anyone in its path if it fell.

 

@martin-f The same was done here to two birch tree's, they was so tall with bad winds they had used to rock but we have ours now shaped and it looks ok I think, it's just trimmed twice yearly.

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It looks lovely Gail I wish I could do something similar but the trees dead , next door neighbour poisoned it along with another big tree while the house was empty before we bought it, glad he did tbh the garden was like a small wood when we moved in, it took me months to dig the smaller trees out never mind this one.

 

@martin-f Well when it was cut back it was shaped to the ball and it's been kept like it since...that's the only trouble when moving you never know what the neighbours will be like
Well how yours was like a woods, it was brew your own here mate and like yourself took a fare bit to get it right because I was concerned with my dog...he just loved the strawberries

 

Happy new year all here's why I have no birds in the garden today as flown off now

 

@zenj Happy new year to you also Birds have been going mad here today also

 

I don't recall seeing geese migrate at this time of the year before ? sorry about the poor picture they was at distance and I only had my phone they was heading west from my location.

@zenj I see sparrow hawks quite often round here one was in the road the other day with a blackbird, I don't like to see it but its nature a very agile bird in flight.