For WHO's birders

[Nurse Ratched]

"I thought you might like this video.



It's a compilation of different birds singing. Beautiful photography. If you expand the 'title' under the video it gives a list of species and the times they pop up in the video. Most of the species are familiar to us in the UK, but there are some 'exotics' (the cranes - wow, what a noise!) It was filmed in Belarus. The guy has a channel you can subscribe to. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and maybe it'll take your mind off you-know-what for a few blessed minutes."

[Hammer and Pickle]

Just checking if this bumps to the top like on the old site.

Yay it does!

This is fun.

[GBHammer63]

"Sitting in the garden drinking coffee, watching 5 hoopoe’s dancing around the trees at the end of our garden. Lovely looking things."

[Tomshardware]

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

[Tomshardware]

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

[Tomshardware]

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

[Tomshardware]

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

[Tomshardware]

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

[Tomshardware]

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

[Aalborg Hammer]

"norwaytips- take a walk up to Tennysons Monument and take a look at the resident ravens -they're big bastards too. On a separate note -if you like burgers/steak etc. make sure to visit The Cow ,not far from Freshwater on the Newport road and the Blacksmiths pub at Carisbrooke-great food and views out the back"

[norwaytips]

"Just seen a white tailed sea eagle, in Compton bay, Isle of Wight. First one I’ve seen here and they are big buggers."

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Just taken a photo of one of the wild flowers, and it’s a gentian. Well chuffed."

[WHU(Exeter)]

"A few of the wild flowers I planted have come up on the last week, well pleased. My street and a couple nearby are also covered with lots of Mexican flea bane. It’s amazing how they can grow quickly, with next to nothing to grow in. They truly are proliferate. Ahem…"

[arsene york-hunt]

I saw a nice pair of tits in my garden.

[Nurse Ratched]

Forgot to add: Loads of swifts in the streets around my home. Also an area I know locally for house martins is absolutely swamped with the little beauties.

[Nurse Ratched]

"Spotted flycatcher. FMOB Merlin has been trying to tell me all morning and I thought ""Nah"". Now a confirmed eyeball. Best Spring I can remember for birding in a long time. All I'm missing is my woodpecker but maybe I've not been available to watch the garden early enough or just been unlucky with timing. Also: a jay and many baby bluetits."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"My Merlin app has recorded a single Nightingale and, interestingly, a Golden Oriel at the same time. Playing it back there is a single liquid trill, which seems to have been attributed to both. Could it be Merlin is as reliable as an over-keen ornithologist?"

[Aalborg Hammer]

The local bird warden says it's possibly a lone male on his way through to Sussex..he'd not heard one for ages..my Merlin app confirmed the 'spotting ' hope to try again tonight

[Aalborg Hammer]

"Currently staying in a 500 year old brew house on the Isle of Wight...we're somewhat out in the sticks here with water meadows and some lakes..so far we've seen a barn owl fly over the lake (with fieldmouse) chiff chaff ,Jay's, wren ,long tailed tits, buzzards, red kite , moorhen , grey heron , loads of red squirrels and a fox..my Merlin app has been very busy recording a bearded tit, Reed warbler and tree creeper..last night, the icing on the cake was a nightingale giving it rice in the nearby wood..I haven't heard one since I was a teenager..Happy days"

[Nurse Ratched]

Swifts screaming their heads off in the air over my garden and a hovering red kite who most obligingly slowed and circled long enough to give me a good view of his underpinnings via my bins. FMOB.

[Nurse Ratched]

"I became a little tearful earlier. Brilliant day in my garden. Not only are the coal tits back after a 3(?) year absence, but twice one came in to my sitting room to take worms. On top of that for the first time ever I've seen long-tailed tits on my feeders! I got to watch a parent feeding bits of suet ball to its fledgie. I love these little tsee-tsee-tsee-tsee feckers, but until today they've eluded me. God bless these mild winters."

[Nutsin]

"I live next to a park, there is a family of birds that are the size of a sparrow only they are blue. Beautiful looking birds. It’s called an Indigo Bunting. Nice looking bird."

[Tomsdad]

Went to see a Frigate bird sanctuary on the isle of Barbuda yesterday. They are massive with a 1.8 metre wingspan. Also see some humming birds.

[Tomsdad]

Went to see a Frigate bird sanctuary on the isle of Barbuda yesterday. They are massive with a 1.8 metre wingspan. Also see some humming birds.

[Nurse Ratched]

"Three lovely spots, chaps. Been a good spring so far."

[Hammer and Pickle]

First swifts sighted just now :)