Rizzo Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Is this some kind of goose? Quite a big b*****d. Indian Runner genes in there too possibly. Might be a hybrid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 8 hours ago, Rizzo said: Indian Runner genes in there too possibly. Might be a hybrid. Very similar. Was quite upright a lot of the time as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Couple of weeks ago. Sparrowhawk sat there for about 45 minutes eating a nice fresh fledgling starling. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 There's a chaffinch Been perched atop a telegraph pole just outside work for the last 3 days, chirping away like f**k incessantly, can I shoot the little fucker?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 22 minutes ago, philpy said: There's a chaffinch Been perched atop a telegraph pole just outside work for the last 3 days, chirping away like f**k incessantly, can I shoot the little fucker?? As long as you have with chips. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowden0 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I've spent a lot of time in the country in my life and last week was the first time I had seen a Tree-creeper!Cracking wee bird. Had one as a regular in trees around the farm yard. Could watch it for ages going up and down the trees. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowden0 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Has anybody else noticed a lack of swallows, housemartins and swifts. Not seen a single one this year 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I am so lucky where I live in rural Aberdeenshire...go down to the river every day just down from my house and usually see an Osprey fishing, ducks and their ducklings, moor hens, heron and some geese that never made it north in April (Greylag and Canada) Then in my garden a huge variety of small birds at my feeders - past couple of days a couple young woodpeckers have fledged the nest and started eating paenuts. My office desk is my kitchen table and looks directly at my feeders 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fife Saint Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Has anybody else noticed a lack of swallows, housemartins and swifts. Not seen a single one this year I've had swifts out the back for a few weeks in leafy suburban East Dunbartonshire. Seen hunners of swallows feeding on the Kelvin last week too.I think they were a week or two later than usual though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Seen plenty of swallows. There appears to be less swifts and house martins than usual. The house martins were later than usual.Has anybody else noticed a lack of swallows, housemartins and swifts. Not seen a single one this year 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 That first line will probably lead to a Kenneth Williams pic..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 39 minutes ago, Deanburn Dave said: That first line will probably lead to a Kenneth Williams pic..... One swallow doesn't make a summer. But it can make a weekend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 finally - nine months after moving in here (and following an equally barren year or so at the previous place) the local goldfinch population have realised that there is a sodding great pot of niger seeds out specifically for their delectation and delight, and are regularly stuffing themselves ! coincidence or otherwise, this has followed on smartly from ditching a second, useless 'proper' niger seed feeder and filling up a normal one with the things (and - after previous instances on here - having made sure that there was no plastic sleeve blocking the holes !); i reckon goldfinches have recently developed fatter beaks and are unable to push their pointy faces in to the tiny holes on the 'proper' feeders - they're probably american or something... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Male cuckoo from last weekend 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisal Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 t Lockdown buddies 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 On 18/06/2020 at 18:12, Herman Hessian said: finally - nine months after moving in here (and following an equally barren year or so at the previous place) the local goldfinch population have realised that there is a sodding great pot of niger seeds out specifically for their delectation and delight, and are regularly stuffing themselves ! coincidence or otherwise, this has followed on smartly from ditching a second, useless 'proper' niger seed feeder and filling up a normal one with the things (and - after previous instances on here - having made sure that there was no plastic sleeve blocking the holes !) Which stupid c**t did that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 28 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: superb. never seen one in the flesh before. I hadn't even heard one until I took a walk up past Rullion Green a few years ago and there was a right noisy one in some woods. Penicuik takes its name from the Welsh for "hill of the cuckoo" so it was nice to have the name confirmed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Bit of a coincidence. My first ever shot of a Cuckoo, last night Seen 3 or 4 in my life and heard loads, but never been close enough for a photo. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, thisal said: t Lockdown buddies The goldfinch even sports Partick's colours. Edited June 22, 2020 by Rizzo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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