Danish Woodland Webcam (2 Viewers)

[RecoveringScot]

Saw a Brambling a minute or two ago:

 

[RecoveringScot]

I like this one, and think it has potential if it stays up till spring. It's a very attractive, 'natural-looking' scene, as if you'd just stopped to view the place on a walk. So far Jays, Magpies, Wood pigeon, Brambling, Chaffinch, Blue, Great and probable Willow Tits, Nuthatch, Robin, Blackbird.

 

[RecoveringScot]

A Yellowhammer earlier on, first one I've seen at a feeding station on camera (extreme left):

 

[pianoman]

That's a lovely high def cam Phil. Just saw the Brambling too

 

[RecoveringScot]

Sparrowhawk attack at 12:40pm today (to the left of the tree trunk ). Lightning fast and was thought to have caught something out of frame:

 

[RecoveringScot]

Crested Tit this morning. Why these birds seem to be common on the continent and remain so unusual and local in the UK is a puzzle. I have seen now Crested Tit at every webcam I watch, even snowed up Finland.

 

[Farnboro John]

Crested Tit this morning. Why these birds seem to be common on the continent and remain so unusual and local in the UK is a puzzle. I have seen now Crested Tit at every webcam I watch, even snowed up Finland.

Perhaps the fact they are still around in snowed up Finland is the clue: they don't reach Britain because they don't move for anything. Makes the colonies in the Highlands even more odd.

John

 

[RecoveringScot]

Perhaps the fact they are still around in snowed up Finland is the clue: they don't reach Britain because they don't move for anything. Makes the colonies in the Highlands even more odd.

John

Could be. The Speyside group might be a relict population, a more widespread distribution having shrunk over previous centuries. I don't know what the thinking about that question is these days. All the other Tits seem to have survived changes in the environment (although Willow's status in Scotland is 'questionable' I believe). Has it, that is, Crested, ever been recorded in England in modern times?

 

[Farnboro John]

Could be. The Speyside group might be a relict population, a more widespread distribution having shrunk over previous centuries. I don't know what the thinking about that question is these days. All the other Tits seem to have survived changes in the environment (although Willow's status in Scotland is 'questionable' I believe). Has it, that is, Crested, ever been recorded in England in modern times?

Very, very infrequently (contrasting with, for instance, Continental Coal tits which are annual during migration): there are a couple of documented records and I am aware of one probable one that followed a few days after the 1987 storm that tore across Northwestern France and South-Eastern England and ruined Michael Fish's weather forecasting reputation.

John

 

[RecoveringScot]

Very, very infrequently (contrasting with, for instance, Continental Coal tits which are annual during migration): there are a couple of documented records and I am aware of one probable one that followed a few days after the 1987 storm that tore across Northwestern France and South-Eastern England and ruined Michael Fish's weather forecasting reputation.

John

Interesting, thanks.

 

[pianoman]

Interesting, thanks.

AFAIK only a couple of Marsh Tits and not a single Willow Tit has made it across the Irish Sea, not even the short hop from Kintyre, this century. So it seems tit species don't like to travel

 

[RecoveringScot]

AFAIK only a couple of Marsh Tits and not a single Willow Tit has made it across the Irish Sea, not even the short hop from Kintyre, this century. So it seems tit species don't like to travel

Yet Blue Tits make it to Shetland. I'm surprised that the Cresties haven't spread with feeders along river valleys.

 

[dantheman]

Blue Tits and Great Tits at least are pretty migratory on the continent.

Have looked at the webcam a couple of random times - absolutely nada!

 

[dantheman]

It now has seed on the ground! No birds yet though ... scrub that!!! Blackbird and Blue Tits ... anyone else spotted the Caiman?


And was it chosen as a 'live stream' because it has a live stream in it?

 

[01101001]

Blue Tits and Great Tits at least are pretty migratory on the continent.

Have looked at the webcam a couple of random times - absolutely nada!

There's usually not a thing when I look. However, when I choose a random moment in the past, there's always some interesting bird. Past > present??

 

[dantheman]

There's usually not a thing when I look. However, when I choose a random moment in the past, there's always some interesting bird. Past > present??

Pheasants currently!

 

[01101001]

Must've been standing still or wearing camouflage, then! 🤣 I've never been good at scanning...

 

[RecoveringScot]

Plenty about today, Blackbird, Chaffinch (large nos.), Blue, Great and Willow Tits (at least two), several Jays, about a dozen Hooded Crows, Nuthatch, Pheasant. Never seen a House or Tree Sparrow here so far.

 

[dantheman]

Also Robin, Woodpigeon, Pheasant and Magpie this morning. Still plenty of activity.

 

[RecoveringScot]

Goshawk attack 11:15 to 11:20. These two pictures show the first Goshawk arriving and returning, but just at the moment it returns on the right a second Goshawk drops down at top left and goes into the bushes behind the big tree. The first bird moves from left into these bushes at 11:17 and one of them chases the Pheasant on the ground and then in flight from 11:19 to 11:20. Best viewed at quarter-speed. It's worth the wait.