Last bird of 2023 (1 Viewer)

[dantheman]

What was your last bird of 2023?

 

[Paul Chapman]

Great White Egret (currently) as I pull the curtains.....

 

[Frank van Drogen]

The Blue Tits were the last to leave the feeders, after the GSW and Great Tits had gone already.

 

[Bewick]

Blackbird

 

[RichieTwitchy]

Magpie - 4 in a tree at the bottom of the garden making a right racket - as Paul says, whilst pulling the curtains for the night.

 

[KenM]

As of now…..Tawny Owl calling.

 

[WACCOE]

Several Woodpigeons flying over the house.

 

[David_]

Surprisingly not a feral pigeon but a flock of ca. 25 Goldfinches. Biggest flock I have seen from my apartment in the 5+ years I am living here. A nice way to end my birding year

 

[Monahawk]

A sickly goldfinch on one of my nut feeders with a blackbird close by looking on from the nearby hedge.
A couple of robins twittering away nearby sounded out the old year.

Si.

 

[dantheman]

I actually went out for an hour or so, managed to not get soaked either.

Last bird I recall seeing properly was a Great Crested Grebe, nice. (I must have seen some passerines in the dusk after but didn't register them, I'd already forgotten I was trying to see what the last bird of the year might be!) Outside my door I remembered and made an effort to listen for a minute - the Rooks calling and a distant Blackbird plicking the last heard (and pretty sure it will stay that way).

 

[Paul Chapman]

Great White Egret (currently) as I pull the curtains.....

I opened the curtains. The Egret was gone & some Woodpigeons flew over. B#gger.

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Greenfinches, a few beginning their regular pre-roost gathering here at work at about half three (the flock has been known to get north of 250, but around 170 is my biggest count so far this winter). Then I went indoors, and by the time I came out it was dark.

 

[Richard D]

Woodpigeons and Collared Doves together in a tree in the garden

 

[Julie50]

As with First of 2024 - I'm going robin or moorhen

 

[GreenRooky]

Snipe leaving roost

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Chaffinch

 

[Nightjar61]

Northern Cardinal (two males and a female.)

Cardinals are usually the last species I see because they seem to be the only bird that lingers at the feeder right up until dark, after the other birds have disappeared for the night.

Dave

 

[trw]

Two Green Sandpiper. They've been around for months, usually in the same location. Not there today but I found them in another area about a mile away, which is normally dry, but after all the heavy rain, it was badly flooded.

 

[hookem2010]

Killdeer, calling while grabbing some dinner after sundown.

 

[aeshna5]

Blue Tit looking in front room window-probably looking for spiders.