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RE: What's flying near you? - Small chilli - 21-02-2023
Sounds more like a kestrel. Sparrowhawks don’t hover. Either way it’d be lovely to watch them do their stuff
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RE: What's flying near you? - Vinny - 21-02-2023
(21-02-2023, 11:47 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Sounds more like a kestrel. Sparrowhawks don’t hover. Either way it’d be lovely to watch them do their stuffShows how much I know,I thought a Kestrel WAS a sparowhawk!
RE: What's flying near you? - Veggie - 23-02-2023
A Huge Queen Bumble bee kept me company in the GH today. She was feeding on the flowering "some sort of" Oriental veg. Sweetly scented yellow flowers. I knew there was a good reason for leaving them to flower.
RE: What's flying near you? - Vinny - 06-03-2023
Just looked out the French doors and wondered what a large seagull was doing flying so far from the coast. On having a second look I realised it was a large white owl flying in daylight!
It must have had a wingspan of about 3 feet! 
RE: What's flying near you? - Mark_Riga - 07-03-2023
The long tailed tits have stayed around often visiting the bird table, a couple of unwanted jackdaws have also been there.
A pair of lapwings have been whooping about the field opposite for the last few days.
Whenever it gets colder, a few fieldfares appear looking for apples under the bramley.
RE: What's flying near you? - Veggie - 07-03-2023
The long tailed tits are on the feeders here too and the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker came back today.
A pair of Buzzards soaring overhead (where else would they soar, stoopid??)
RE: What's flying near you? - PyreneesPlot - 08-03-2023
The local kestrel had a go at the birds on the bird feeder (well, it's a bird too!) but luckily (or unluckily) the sparrow mob saw it coming, and then it nearly flew into the window
RE: What's flying near you? - Mark_Riga - 10-03-2023
A bumblebee was buzzing round an apricot tree this dinner time but whether we will get any this year with the frosts to come we'll see.
RE: What's flying near you? - Vinny - 18-03-2023
Watched a sparrow hawk out of my kitchen window sitting on the fence ten foot in front of me. Took a good few photo's and a video as he/she flew away. It seemed to be posing for me as it turned it's head after I clicked each photo!
I felt really honoured to be in it's pressence!
RE: What's flying near you? - Veggie - 30-03-2023
A beautiful Red Admiral butterfly sunning itself a few feet away from where I was gardening.