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RE: What's flying near you? - Roitelet - 16-04-2023
Orange tip butterflies have arrived!
RE: What's flying near you? - Roitelet - 26-04-2023
No Swallows yet but this morning I hear a Cuckoo!!!
RE: What's flying near you? - Mark_Riga - 28-04-2023
(26-04-2023, 09:23 PM)Roitelet Wrote: No Swallows yet but this morning I hear a Cuckoo!!!
We used to get cuckoos regularly but haven't heard one now for a good few years. Swallows arrived a couple of weeks ago and there are several flying in and out of the old coal shed.
Just now coming back from a walk we saw a bird of prey, probably a sparrowhawk, just swoop into the garden down the drive.
RE: What's flying near you? - PyreneesPlot - 01-05-2023
Heard the first golden oriole of the year - I'm sure with climate change their beautiful liquid call will ring out over more and more UK woodlands.
RE: What's flying near you? - Knotty - 01-05-2023
Can hear woody woodpecker.
RE: What's flying near you? - Roitelet - 05-05-2023
Common male Redstart, beautiful! We often have Black Redstarts but this is the first time I’ve seen this one.
RE: What's flying near you? - JJB - 09-05-2023
We have 2 different (I think) male greater spotted woodpeckers visiting the birdtable, one who announces himself arriving and departing with a 'chack' and one who doesn't. The sparrows don't quite know what to make of them. The table is for the small birds and has a 1½" plastic mesh to keep black birds and pigeons out, you know the plastic stuff used for climbing plants, woody thinks nothing of squeezing through this.
RE: What's flying near you? - Bren - 09-05-2023
Three Buzzards over the garden the other day.
RE: What's flying near you? - Roitelet - 09-05-2023
I’ve finally seen Swallows!
RE: What's flying near you? - Mark_Riga - 09-05-2023
Saw my first cabbage white today.
For the last week or so, there have been black flies with long dangly legs. They only seem to fly for a couple of weeks in early May. They don't look very nice but seem harmless enough.