The Big Garden Birdwatch

We will be having a discussion on birdwatching and other hobbies in nature in the Hobby Zone room (adult) on Saturday at 2pm, everyone is welcome to join in!

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@Lou73 thank you so much! I love the images! I am so far planning to sleep as much as possible tomorrow, but I will try to stop by the Hobby Zone room. I really appreciate!😊❤️

Thank you @Help127 Look forward to seeing you! 🙂🍃

@Lou73

Wow! That made me smile a lot, Lou. Thank you! And just last night I happened to be dreaming of a robin. Thanks also for the information in the post - I didn't know that - and for letting me know about the discussion. I will participate. I saw a great *** recently. 😉

*Parus major - the bird I saw.

Aww @SolitaryBird the Robin in your dream sounds lovely! You're very welcome for the info and looking forward to seeing you tomorrow :) They are such pretty birds!

@SolitaryBird Haha, that automated censor is not into birds a lot...

@Lou73

I often sit with my grandparents and watch the birds in their garden. It's surrounded by fields and a small woodland so usually there's a wide variety in what we can spot. It's always fun to do. Some of the more regular birds have some funny personalities 😆

Aww @SleepyShyCat it sounds like a wonderful hobby to do with your grandparents :) It sounds like the perfect location for spotting too! hehe that's so cute that you know some of them so well, they obviously like it there! 🦅

Yes! What a fantastic photo! My favorite pastime is wildlife photography, and birds are my absolute favorite.

@Lou73

Ikr @calmAngel5296! I can't take credit though but it's such an amazing photo!

We would love to see some of your wildlife photography here if you'd like to share?

I would love to, but unfortunately, all my photos are on another computer, and I will need to transfer them. Keep watching, lol, and I will post the promised photos

@Lou73

No worries @calmAngel5296, we look forward to seeing them :)

Ooh, I take part in this every year (: I love doing it, even if I don't recognise some. It's a good activity to do mindfully, for sure!

We often have a green woodpecker in our garden 🐦

That's great to hear @CalmCoral! It really is a lovely activity to do mindfully :) Aww green woodpeckers are lovely and have a very distinctive laughing call 😝

@Lou73 Its this weekend so I will be out sitting in my freezing cold garden and see what I can see!

Hope others join in! Let us know what you see in this thread :)

Listening - One Step At A Time!

Aww yay, glad to hear you're taking part @MistyMagic 😊 make sure you keep warm!

My garden has been unusually quiet today :( so I'm hoping tomorrow will be better 🦅

@Lou73

I love birds! I saw a hoopoe in the cold of snow and winter last week here! Im not sure thats the right name but their head pattern was the same. It surprised me why I saw that single one in the snow!

@Aloneistand

Oh wow Hoopoes are amazing birds! I don't know a lot about them and their migration or habitat preferences as we don't have them here but it sounds very rare to see them in the snow! What an exciting spot 🤩

Yes, we have something like that, too. It's called 'The hour of the garden birds' (Die Stunde der Gartenvögel). It's not in winter, though, but in May, so the migrating birds will be there, too.

The quiz says I'm a blackbird. That also would have been my choice, I like them a lot.

wow that's really interesting @cloudySummer, thank you so much for sharing that with us. It makes a lot of sense to do it in May to observe the migrating birds 🥰🦅

Aww yay blackbirds are so sweet and the prettiest song 🎵

An image of what my grandparents did to me so I could sit in their garden and keep a bird watch while they sat in the warm 🥶🐦

Hahaha love that @SleepyShyCat! I can relate and I think I do this to myself now 😝

Here are a few of my bird pics

i believe the first is a pine siskin or warbler, the second is a vulture, lol

@Lou73

Thanks @calmAngel5296, I love the pine siskin! We don't have them here but they look really sweet 🥰

@Lou73

They make a cute little trilling whistle

I wanted to share a really exciting weekend of birdspotting here. I went to an area where owls had been spotted so we spent many hours there and managed to see a sleeping Tawny Owl, flying Barn Owls, as well as several long-eared owls and short-eared owls! There were also Buzzards and Kestrels, Hen Harriers and I spotted a Kingfisher at a different location!

One very happy bird spotter 🦉

@Lou73

Thank you for sharing your experience with us! 😊

@Lou73 thank you so much! I love that image 😊

@Lou73

Lucky you! I love kingfishers, and I have tried for years to get a photo of an owl. I am still waiting.

Hello, fellow bird lovers. This is my favorite photo taken with my Pentax K20

@calmAngel5296 so pretty, thanks for sharing

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@calmAngel5296

I agree that Kingfishers are stunning and owls are definitely difficult to photograph! I only got a few shaky videos taken on my phone through my binocular lens 🤣

Omg what a cutie! Love the photo, it takes so much patience to photograph birds and wildlife in general

I don't have a phone or any pictures yet but I like to feed the crows at lunchtime! There used to be just a couple, anywhere from 2-8, but recently there's been about 20 of them! They know exactly what time of day to come and are usually only around during that time, leaving soon after getting their peanuts. I think they recognise me and seem to get a little more comfy each time, hopefully they will warm up to me soon! And they're super pretty, smart, and I like to listen to their calls. Not the prettiest, but zyou can kinda tell which ones are older and what they're doing. The diffrent pitches and all. They also have a system for ike a sequence of calls means one thing, a diffrent one means a diffrent thing. One time, I saw a younger crow skipping instead of the lil walk (if you've seen a crow you probably know what I'm talking about) and it was adorable. I could talk for like two hours about crows, I love them! Even though they're misunderstood a bit.

That's so cool @LonleyCheese! I love that they know when it's lunchtime!

unfortunatly with spring coming around they've suddenly stopped coming as much, and certainly not in the same numbers as before, and without a jacket I dn't really have pockets for the peanuts, but I did see a rather round crow sitting on a line the other day which was very cute

@LonleyCheese

Aww no pockets for peanuts :( and there should be a lot more food available now that it's spring. The round crow sounds very funny :)