CWH
LIFE MEMBER
Over the last couple of weeks:
Lambing time on the crofts, so an influx of hooded crows, gulls, buzzards, and eagles, golden and WTE. Which means that the 2 pairs of peewits are on high alert and in aggression mode. A couple of jackdaws. Pair of redshank, cuckoos busy cuckooing all day and night, and this year's first sighting of wheatear. A few larks. Snipe sounding off. Still waiting for stonechats to arrive.
Looking a bit further, more gulls, oyster-catcher, curlew, gannet. Greylag geese. There will be smaller shorebirds but can't see them from here.
All the usual garden suspects: hedge sparrow, greenfinch, lots of goldfinch, chaffinch, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, blackbird, rock dove, starling, reed bunting, now redpoll and linnet and a couple of pairs of bullfinch. Occasional thrushes. Outlier male siskin.
Occasional fly-by: sparrowhawk, kestrel, male hen harrier (not seen the female yet this year).
Various owls nearby but not hearing them.
It's getting busy!
Lambing time on the crofts, so an influx of hooded crows, gulls, buzzards, and eagles, golden and WTE. Which means that the 2 pairs of peewits are on high alert and in aggression mode. A couple of jackdaws. Pair of redshank, cuckoos busy cuckooing all day and night, and this year's first sighting of wheatear. A few larks. Snipe sounding off. Still waiting for stonechats to arrive.
Looking a bit further, more gulls, oyster-catcher, curlew, gannet. Greylag geese. There will be smaller shorebirds but can't see them from here.
All the usual garden suspects: hedge sparrow, greenfinch, lots of goldfinch, chaffinch, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, blackbird, rock dove, starling, reed bunting, now redpoll and linnet and a couple of pairs of bullfinch. Occasional thrushes. Outlier male siskin.
Occasional fly-by: sparrowhawk, kestrel, male hen harrier (not seen the female yet this year).
Various owls nearby but not hearing them.
It's getting busy!