Djpekingman Foxy_Dread You can't miss a Curlew - its call is unmistakable as is its long downward curved bill - more black and white in the brown as well. Whimbrel are smaller (15") but very similar to a curlew but the downward curved beak also gives them away. Curlew is much bigger than a thrush. Up to 24" as opposed to 11 for a mistle thrush or 9" for a song thrush. You sound more like a Snipe - thrush sized, female Kestrel coloured (the male Kestrel is smaller and has distinctive grey/blue markings on its head and wings).
Foxy_Dread Djpekingman https://www.mwt.im/wildlife-explorer/birds/wading-birds/snipe You've nailed it.
Placid So far this month: Wren Coaltit Blue Tits (nesting) Goldfinch Robins loads, follow me round garden. Kite
CharlieG Built up a wood store, last week, to house (oddly enough) wood for the new stove. 4 days later, the day before delivery of logs, a blackbird pair have built a fucking nest at the back of kindling shelf! I'll have to store the kindling in the garage, I guess....
Placid Ive made some bee hotels. Drilling holes into log Watched this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002t686/my-garden-of-a-thousand-bees Fascinating.
90Piesanhour Just had a sparrow hawk in the garden, chowing down on a sparrow. What a privilege to see such a beautiful bird up close. I imagine the hapless sparrow would disagree…
Djpekingman Hoopoe in the garden - they're great for eating the poisonous procesionario caterpillars. Swallows are back today.
AndreWeimaraner Been in Edinburgh for the weekend. My nephew’s garden was like a magnet for beautiful birds, the pick being a stunning bullfinch. 😍
90Piesanhour Cracking day out to Embsay, yesterday. Saw red kites, buzzards, kestrels, meadow pipits, a cormorant, brambling, lesser white throat all finished off with a pint of bitter shandy and some Seabrooks crisps! Perfect bank holiday fayre.
Foxy_Dread I've no one else to share this with. I saw my first ever Brambling today. I saw my second Brambling today. I saw shitloads of Bramblings today. That is all.
Jon Two blue herons fought to the death in a nearby park recently. Judging by the opening few paragraphs I’m guessing that the journalist sees himself as more of a crime reporter than covering the local flora and fauna. He’s got eye witness accounts, someone who doesn’t want their name made public and everything. https://montclairlocal.news/2026/05/witness-says-montclair-blue-herons-fought-to-the-death-expert-says-birds-very-territorial/
fuzzy There's a scraggy Robin that comes to see me in the back yard. I give it seeds and stuff. It doesn't seem to mind me getting close now. I read about Mackenzie Crook befriending a Robin that now comes into his house and sits on his shoulder. Don't think that would be wise with our ruthless bastard of a cat but me and this Robin are becoming sort of pals.
Djpekingman fuzzy Fucking cats. Do you know it's estimated they kill 50 million birds a year in the UK alone? Mindless murdering fuckers they are. Cats, not birds. The IDF of the animal world.
Placid fuzzy Beauty aren't they Robins, follow you round the garden waiting for dug over earth, winder if their cuteness is an evolved trait to coincide with humans and farming
