Viv K

Urban Fox

Two of the 3 foxes that I watched in Greenwich Park

Ring-Necked Parakeet

I'm enjoying strolling around my old haunts. Greenwich Park has always been a favourite. Yesterday I got gr8 views of 3 foxes, many Parakeets, a few Fallow Deer, Gt Spot Woodies, Egyptian Geese & a surprising Red Kite. 😃 #UKBirding #UKMammals

Red deer stag, roaring during the rut, in Bushy Park

An exhausted Fallow deer stag, fasts asleep in Bushy Park

A large Red Deer stag, fast asleep in Bushy Park.

Ring-necked Parakeet in Bushy Park

Cat-sitting in London, so had a trip to Bushy Park yester to wildlife watch. Exhausted stags, both Fallow and Red, Green Woodpeckers, Parakeets, Stonechats & Jays mainly. #Wildlife #Mammals #Birds All deer pics from at least 50m - they're very dangerous at this time of year!

Emsworthy Mire.

That's wonderful Mike. Hope it stays around.

I thought that I'd miss them, but just struck lucky! 😃

Dartmoor in showery rain today, so the light was rather low. Large influx of thrush types - Fieldfares (about 70), Redwings (7), Ring Ouzels (@ 12), Blackbirds and Mistles. All VERY flighty. Also Tawny Owl calling in p.m, Greenfinches, Linnets, Stonechats, Goldcrests, Bullfinches. #UKBirding

Chiffchaff

A male Cirl Bunting on Rosehips

A female Wheatear on rose branch

A Wheatear on a pile of horse manure

It was a dark grey morn, but I had a stroll on the South Dorset Ridgeway, after a Tip run. Small pulse of Swallows heading E, Stonechats, Cirl buntings, a single Wheatear, a few Skylarks and many Chiffs and Chaffs. Dreadful pics because there was a total lack of light or contrast! 🙁 #UKBirding

Mourning Dove stands on the ground, its back is facing with its head turned side on

A slightly better shot of the Mourning Dove yesterday on St Agnes. Thanks to the landowner and birders for allowing and arranging access. This was not only a first for the Scillies but also a first for England! #UKBirding #RareBirdsUK #IoSBirding #IslesofScillyBirding

A Red Kite on Exmoor, with Dartmoor in the background

3 Red-legged Partridge on Exmoor

One of the Red Legged Partridge that I saw on Exmoor

A Fly Agaric toadstool

Up on Exmoor yesterday and I was surprised how few birds I was seeing. Plenty of holly and haw berries, but I didn't see a single Blackbird or thrush, but on Dartmoor a few days ago were plenty. A Red Kite, Linnets & Stonechats were evident. Other than that? Pheasants & Partridge. 🙁#UKBirding

Up on Dartmoor for dawn, hoping for a Ring Ouzel. None seen, but there was a lge flock of Meadow Pipits (@200) swirling around, that quickly dispersed. Lots of Blackbirds, Stonechats, Jays, Chiffs & a few Gt Spot Woodies. Beautiful day, but very chilly first thing! #UKBirding

Thanks Leon! Beautiful bird music. ❤️❤️

Where were you Leon? 😃

Gd to see a cpl of Wheatears in the churchyard, Lyme Regis, this morn and also a lge pulse of hirundines swirling along the coast. The beach was almost devoid of birds, apart from Rock Pipits & Wags - but there was a solitary juv Dunlin! Also Turnstones on the rock armour. #UKBirding

I had a fantastic 3 hrs at #SeatonMarsh today. 2hr 58mins was spent chatting to birding mates - @dhelliar.bsky.social, Nick & Bob - and 2 mins was spent watching my favourite woodpecker - the Wryneck 😀. So glad it finally showed itself. Also gr8 views of a Sparrowhawk & Curlew. #UKBirding

Thanks Dave! 🤞

Lovely to see you, Dave. I'm just looking at my pics. Sounds as though Nick finally got a decent view too! 😃

I was hoping that the strong winds yesterday might have blown a choice morsel onto the Lyme Regis beaches, but I could only find the usual suspects and they were in fewer numbers that in the past few days! Turnstones, Ringos and Sanderlings. Where are the Dunlin? #UKBirding

A picture showing the incredibly low water level in Cheddar Reservoir.

One of five Glossy Ibis at Cheddar Reservoir

One of more than a dozen Curlew Sandpipers at Cheddar Reservoir

5 Gt White Egrets standing in the middle of Cheddar Reservoir - an area usually covered in water.

Interesting trip to Cheddar Reservoir today. Water is so low! Maybe 30%. 5 Glossy Ibis, 20+ Gt White Egret, 12+ Curlew Sandpipers, Dunlin, Ringos, Grey Phalarope etc. I cldn't see Lesser Scaup or Black Tern, but I believe that they were there!
#UKBirding

Very high tide this morn, which meant a shortage of waders. Plenty of warblers around though - Blackcaps, Cettis, Willow and Chiffchaff mainly. Ringos, Dunlin, Redshank and Godwits. Kingfishers & Stonechats.Nice to see a few Cattle Egrets around the cattle (surprisingly). 😀#UKBirding

It's come to something when you look at a post on Bird Guides and see 'Glossy Ibis', click again for more info and say 'What?? Only ONE??!" 😮 #UKBirding

They certainly are a devil to get in the viewfinder! 🤣

A female wheatear on a fence at Seaton Marshes

One of 8 Little Grebes at Borrow Pit, Seaton Marshes

A damaged Common Tern at Black Hole Marsh. Looks like something caught its throat.

A Curlew Sandpiper at Black Hole Marsh, wading in water.

Spent a good couple of hours wandering around Seaton Wetlands this morning. A couple of Wheatears at Seaton Marsh; 8 Little Grebe at Borrow Pit; a Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Common Sands, 9 Ringos, 3 Dunlin, Kingfisher, Redshanks, Blackwits, a very damaged Tern at Black Hole Marsh. #UKBirding

Very windy on Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis today. No Grey Phal, but still a lot of small birds. More than a dozen Sanderling, 17 Turnstone, 7 Ringos. Many Rock Pipits and Pied Wags. Quite a few Cormorants offshore. #UKBirding

I find that hard to believe 😮😮

Thanks Cliff. I think must be on a roll! 🤣🤣 If 2 birds in a year can be called 'a roll'. 🙂

It was a wonderful morn in Lyme Regis. Not the spectacular sunrise that I'd hoped for, but very beautiful. The sea was flat calm, the beach was full of birds and I had a great chat with a fellow birder. Interesting to see the weed, after all of the stormy bluster......Looks like a hairdressers.

Fab a.m in Lyme Regis. Went for dawn & found that the recent blowy weather had brought weed onto the beach & also small waders. Found a Grey Phalarope tucked in by the Cobb - watched it on & off for 3 hours. Chatted to a birder. Calm sea, blue sky. Gorgeous!! Off for a sea swim now! #UKBirding

Grey Phalarope tucked in beside Cobb, Lyme Regis, also Sanderling. 6.51am. #UKBirding #dorsetbirds

Wishing you all the very best! 🤞🤞

If you say so.......🤔🤔