What have you seen
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WN have had clouded yellows and wall browns flying around here today and even saw some blue butterflies this week on my usual short walk, at least from Saturday I can go further but still the paperwork.
Washing up this morning and a robin came to the window and thought nothing here so flew off again, the cranes are on the move but not seen any around here yet.
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I'm glad you enjoyed the Great Orme, it's a grand place to be, but notice that you apparently travelled from Cheshire to Wales to do so. Maybe I'm misinterpreting how or why you happen to be in Llandudno but on the face of it you shouldn't have been as Coronavirus regulations forbid it unless in very specific instances, none of which seem to include going for a walk on the Great Orme.
There were times when Wales was in lockdown and I would have loved to go birdwatching on the Wirral but didn't.
If I have misinterpreted your action then I apologise in advance but I am struggling to see how you would justify it.
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Yeah 😀😀😀 finally got to see the ISS tonight. Boy does it shift 😯. Jolly chilly out there now!
If only posting on here was as fast as the ISS. I got thrown out twice and the road signs. Then what do you know? It's such good news I posted twice 🤣🤣🌞
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The Wintersweet has some good fat buds on it, the winter honeysuckle is partly out. I'm enjoying two winter flowering cherries, covered in flowers, one white, one pink. I ordered a white one last year and because the growers couldn't find a five foot one they surprised me by sending two different slightly smaller ones! Lovely to have two.
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I should have looked closer, OH tapped on the window this morning as I was walking up our garden...just to tell me this, one daffodil out! Must be the earliest ever even though it's an early winter variety. Then I noticed that the Cornish named St Ewe Camellia was out too.
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We spotted a Daffodil in flower the other day up by us in S.Cumbria. It goes to show how mild it is and how the seasons are changing.
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Wonder which one was Prancer?
https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/more-than-50-deer-cross-snowy-a1101-video-1-6952934
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Saw a small group of Wigeon among the Brent geese at the top end of Portsmouth harbour yesterday. Not a regular around here.
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Deer jumping fences always scares the life out of me, too many accidents but that was a lovely video clip Nellie!
We woke up this morning to the mass cheerful chattering of Fieldfares in the trees in our front garden, never had them there before but we have a lot of tall trees so they've finally attracted a big flock. Long Tailed Tits following on too. I'm guessing they've moved in due to the cold spell, they usually eat the autumn apples left on the ground.
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Thanks for video clip Nellie.
Had the local Hare around in the night had eaten some greenery in the wildflower area not much about now, also green woodpecker outside kitchen window and plenty of birds on the feeders also about 10 song thrushes our local flock on the field, no Redwings or Fieldfares yet and nearly all the berries on the pyracantha shrub have gone the blackbirds have been busy on it.
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Not actually seen any 'unusual' wildlife to report on, but on my drives round Cheshire to keep the dukky charged, I'm seeing loads of nice fresh molehills on every grass verge & a few gardens as well.
As others have commented the local wild / feral birds are good at emptying the feeders, but not so good at tidying up afterwards
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Had a female Hawfinch on the window feeder this morning whilst having breakfast makes all the other small birds move, have got a ground feeder in a cage and they usually go into that but not yet this year.
Talking to a friend this morning and said earlier in the year they had a Black Woodpecker in their garden we have not seen them here an dour friend is only 3 miles from here, so will have to keep looking.
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Despite the foul weather, grey, chilly warming slightly today, and WET I've noticed the birds sound very spring-like. Lots of singing, Robin's and thrushes in particular, nesting crawing from the rooks and crows. And yesterday the woodpeckers were drumming!
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Yes, we had a couple of hours of Spring like warm weather today.
I was listening to a programme about the winter solstice which marks the low point of the sun but doesn't mean we have later or earlier sunrises/sunsets etc I can't remember which way round but I think we get darker mornings for awhile after the solstice. I suppose the daylight hours vary, London gets more than Inverness etc.
But it does mark something...day light hours start to lengthen after Dec 21st so only 10 more days to go!
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GRRRRR Brue / B2 -- You KNOW that it means more light reflecting from the wet / icy / snowy surfaces sniff, snivel , sob sob sob.
{ Don't really mean to grumble or grouse, B's, but I do have to live up to my " Grumpy Old *** " reputation, don't I }
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A sad day yesterday. We have a rowan tree in our front garden that is, or was, absolutely heavy with berries. Although we have not yet had the mistle thrushes and redwings there have been dozens of blackbirds gorging themselves on the berries. I've counted as many as ten at any one time.
Whilst sitting in our lounge yesterday there was a loud bang on the front window. A male blackbird had flown straight into the glass with such a force it killed it instantly. Hoping to prevent this happening again we partially closed the blinds at the opposite end of the room so that it didn't appear to be a 'fly through' route. Two hours later there was another loud bang at the front and another male blackbird had done exactly the same thing and was, again, killed instantly. Somewhere we knew we had some stick on snowflakes so we have applied about twenty or so to the window. Hopefully this may do the trick and we get no more casualties.
This year has been a good year for blackbird broods in our local area but we can't afford to lose any, especially in these circumstances.
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Good move J👍🏻. I have a long lounge ending in a conservatory that creates lots of light, it runs atwixt village green & the garden & meadow-the Birds used to see this & slam into the windows. I ended up with a black cut out of a hawk almost 2’ square on both front & back it had to be free standing so it moved in the breeze to be fully effective. It was the only way to stop the casualties. A small price to pay.
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We always suffered with birds flying into our bedroom window (bungalow). We have mirrored wardrobe doors so it reflects the greenery outside. We had vertical blinds installed and this has reduced the facilities down to zero for the last few years. We tried the Hawk cut out but the birds stayed away from the feeders.
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I don’t feed the birds it attracts vermin from the fields🤷🏻♂️
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Always a problem, especially as birds have different vision to ours. I always rush out if I hear a thud, sometimes a bird recovers after the initial shock so we've saved a few over the years and lost a few. This time of the year the cold is drawing them in. I went to check our holly tree, not a single berry left! We lose the Rowan berries very early in the season. Apples are the main attraction at the moment, we always leave a lot on the ground, the Fieldfares love them.
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