What have you seen
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How lovely Pliers. We stopped on a CL near Bishop Auckland last June for a few nights as a last minute decision. It had a few horses in a paddock or two but best of all it had breeding curlews in the adjoining arable field and we heard the male returning on a regular basis. All of it unexpected as we were not that far from civilisation.
On a separate note we were lucky enough to be visited by both a Barn and a Tawny Owl at almost the same time around 10 o'clock last night. We heard the Barny hissing right next to the van so switched off all of the lights and had a peek. He was sitting on a hedge post but wasn't fooled by our subterfuge and immediately flew off. About a minute later the Tawny was hooting away.
Quite a few paired up Goldeneyes and a couple of female Goosanders on the meres today.
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There were plenty around the Skegness area last week. I heard them each morning when I was out with Flyte, and then we saw a large flock of then on one of the scrapes behind the dunes at Anderby Creek a couple of days ago.
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I was greeted by 3 Robins in separate trees having a 3 way sing off this morning, the sun had just broken the horizon to bathe them in sunlight. It was very welcoming. The fact we were crunching thru hoar frost didn’t seem to bother them👍🏻😊. They may not be looking for mates fully yet but Spring is on its way.
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Had a short walk down the road and spotted 6 long tailed tits, 1 Large Tortoiseshell butterfly and then on the way back 1 Firecrest in a tree right next to the wall where I was standing did the same walk yesterday only a bit longer and did not see any birds although heard a woodcock fly through some trees and 3 small lizards sunning themselves on the local stone walls. Have got 2 local robins here singing in the hedge or trees and did have 1 redstart about as well.
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We’re obviously slow around here WN👍🏻😊
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The grass verges are crowded with fully bloomed daffodils here in Cornwall. Lovely to see.
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It’s always pasty season down here. We don’t need a special time of year to enjoy their moist juicy tastiness 👍🏻😄
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Mmmmm, I’ll just watch the Robins, this is messing with my napper🤯😂
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With the mild winter we have had i would quite expect everything to be well advanced, we also have crocus and daffs in flower and the tulips in our garden are well up
Ps Out walking with Rosa this morning ,i saw some thing not seen before ,several of our now it seems, growing parakeet population mobbing a Buzzard
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The last couple of mornings there have been a large flock of Fieldfares and Redwings in the paddock behind our caravan.
There were Fulmars pairing up and displaying on their nesting sites on the cliffs at Hunstanton as we walked along the beach there today. And this afternoon we saw thousands of (Brent?) Geese on the fields and wetlands at Snettisham Nature Reserve as well as a couple of Marsh Harriers and a pair of Red Legged Partridge. Numerous Buzzards and Kestral about too.
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We walked along the embankment from Peter Scott's lighthouse today. There were huge flocks of Geese out on the estuary but too far for me to identify although I suspect they were Brent Geese as there were a couple close in. Also saw a group of 7 Little Egrets together, what I took at first to be a Marsh Harrier however it had a forked tail so was perhaps a Red Kite, but the real surprise was to see a Barn Owl flying along the inshore dyke about 10 m away from us just as we were going to sit down for lunch. There were Skylarks singing and Curlew calling and as we drove back I saw a Green Woodpecker....so another a good day
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Sounds quite magical, Nellie.
We walked from home today, over the moors, down to the Ribble, then over even more moors to Slaidburn. Lots of red grouse about, perched on the dry stone walls, calling.
Used our bus passes to get back home!
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I just wish that I had an experienced birder with me as they would be able to spot and identify all the ones that I can't.
Sounds like a good walk, was it very wet underfoot?
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Hi NTH
May I suggest you download an app for your phone. I have the Collins app that is about £15 but recently I was told about a free app from the Cornell laboratories called the Merlin bird ID. The app is free but requires you to provide an e-mail address. The photos are good and will be a great help, saves the cost of a guide or the weight of a book.
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Thanks both. I'll give that app a try BM.
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Try this Nellie,
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/
it's free and very easy to use. The apps suggested mind are good when when out in the field with no wifi available.
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Thanks Mickey, I'll try that one too.
Saw another beautiful Red Kite as we drove to Wallsingham today, and 3 males Bullfinches as we walked along the Pilgrims Way.
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Lots more interesting if not unusual sighting over the last couple of days. Tawny Owls calling the last 2 nights by the site, Woodpecker drumming in the morning, a couple of Red Kites flew over yesterday morning, and there was a hare in the field behind the site. During our walks we saw many more hares, Pink Footed Geese flying overhead and the feeding on the washes behind Broad Water, Yellowhammers along the field edges and many Wigeon, Pochard and Teal at Holkham Nature Reserve as well as a few Shoveller Ducks, and Gadwell and Egyptian Geese on the Estate lake.
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We see several ring neck parakeets on our walks with Rosa most days,every month there is a magazine published by our local paper , ,,this month it has been mentioned in the monthly wildlife piece , that up to 500 are now roosting in the trees and bushes each night just off the A1 at Hatfield, near the big Tesco store
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and our robins were in full song as other birds when we came home from further north on Sunday 
