Great Tits

[Capybara]

Better than flippin' parakeets 'n' all

[Gangster Octopus]

Is it blackbird rutting season? The blackbird in our garden seems to be singing 24 hours a day at present. Not that I'm complaining; it's better than the bloody fireworks...

[Sits]

That’ll be EIM’s one from last year.

[Discordant Resonance]

Egyptian vulture spotted in Roscommon.

[Antepli Ejderha]

[elguapo4]

Don't care who you are, you're not getting in.

[Antepli Ejderha]

[Sits]

In 23 years living in this area of northern Sydney, I’ve never seen a bird smaller than a noisy miner in a garden. They’re the size of a starling and their aggression may well be the main reason smaller birds stick to the bush.

Anyway this afternoon I’d been hearing high pitched trilling down the side of the house and late this afternoon spotted a female or juvenile fairy wren popping up from the top of the Camelia hedge. I’ve seen them down near the creek less than a mile away but never in the garden.

[slackster]

It was a (rare) lovely dry day down in West Wales yesterday, and we had more than a dozen Red Kites soaring over our place just before dusk. No decent pics for you, sadly, but it was a beautiful sight.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Antepli Ejderha nice Robin, and if I’m not mistaken a Monkey Puzzle tree?

Yes, in the garden of our local church.

[Sits]

Antepli Ejderha nice Robin, and if I’m not mistaken a Monkey Puzzle tree?

[Antepli Ejderha]

[Sits]

Capybara that’s great, and shows how things have changed for Kites since my childhood when seeing one in Maidenhead would be a dream.

Good to focus on that rather than the result.

[Capybara]

This isn't a great picture, but I thought Sits might be interested. At Maidenhead United today there were red kites to be seen. This is one.

[Gangster Octopus]

Is there a raptor living in King's Cross station?

[Felicity, I guess so]

He's a real predator in the penalty area (football pitch on the Annan flood plain)

[Sits]

They got the urge for going.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Snow Geese heading south

[Sits]

That's an Australian Raven.

[Sits]

[Third rate Leszno]

Really good sized flock of lapwings on the freshly ploughed fields near my village today - probably 150-200.

[Reality Checkpoint]

A Cheeky young starling checking me out yesterday

[Sits]

I’m tempted by the kookaburra, frogmouth and brush turkey but I think the Aussie magpie gets my vote:

[Felicity, I guess so]

Peeweeps in Elgin.

We still get decent sized groups, sometimes hundreds, on Northumberland coast

[Sits]

That’s a shame, lapwings (or peewits as my grandad used to call them) were a common sight in many open areas when I was young.

It will surprise nobody to hear that their Australian equivalent, the masked lapwing, sometimes dive bombs people and has sharp spurs on its wings.