KenM
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This morning saw a Merlin feeding in my back garden all that was left was a beak and a few feathers.
Christ!...the prey item did bloody well to turn the fight round and beat BOP! :-O
This morning saw a Merlin feeding in my back garden all that was left was a beak and a few feathers.
Christ!...the prey item did bloody well to turn the fight round and beat BOP! :-O
Perhaps not surprising being almost surrounded my numerous sightings....a dive bombing Hawfinch overhead into the wood at 8.05 am. no.48.
One to get you drooling, I would normally spend days scanning the distant mountaisides with the 'scope hoping for this species, so I nearly choked on my lunch as this beauty came gliding down the valley just now:
39 Lammergeier
So, with hopefully Woodpigeon returning soon and the nearby farm's House Sparrows surely due to pay us a visit I should break the magic 40 barrier before the end of the month. After that I might as well sit in the sauna till March like Wari in Finland (except we don't have one:-C)
Plenty within a few miles.
#21. Waxwing - At the Sunday morning 16 birds landed briefly on top of birch. Couln't get photo of them, but later I spend little time on yard and photographing "my tame Redpolls" and few other birds too.
May your TC RIP Richard.
Just spotted a raptor at about 1km - with the bins I "knew what it was" - I'm always looking for one of these as a pair breeds some 6kms away and I've seen them nearer to home on a few occasions but never from home. So - I scrambled the scope up to double-check, very good
31. Black-winged Kite
29. Goshawk, 2cy in flight
Wow, congratulations Simon B
Highly required for my list!!.....although I'm quite prepared to accept one lower down. :-O
Romping away there, Ken - Egyptian isn't even on my possible list.
Two more Redpolls today - perched briefly this time.