What have you seen

Some more great pictures, thanks again to all for sharing.

We are novices at bird watching/identifing but have always found people really helpful .

I can manage the common or garden plus a few waders and buzzard, perrigrine. After that take a picture then look it up when we get home. Most folk are happy to share knowledge, so just ask away.

has anyone got the collins app for bird recognition, is it any good. Should be but is it easy to use.

Op...This will be my third year, although with our trip to Croatia, I will not be doing as much.

If you have never been there, the Hawk & Owl trust supply around half a dozen scopes and ipad(live video) for the public to view the nest tray.

I was there the day the intruding female turned up...she sat on the spire for 30 minutes until driven away by the nesting pair.  She was id'd by the ring GA on her leg and was seen occasionally during the remainder of that year...2015.

The resident female laid 4 eggs in 2016 and everything was going lovely, chicks hatched and then GA turned up again....there was an aerial tussle one day and the next day the resident female was never seen again.

GA sat around the spire watching the male feeding 4 chicks on his own, with GA watching every movement,  When the chicks fledged GA then attacked, knocking 2 down and finally 2 were rescued,  They have both succumbed and 2016 breeding came to nothing.

It now looks as though GA has paired up with our resident male and the soap opera continues.

Better than Coronation St.

Picture is the of the male dropping prey to our long departed female.

Hi GL, I went to the viewing point a couple of years ago and keep an eye on the website.

Just read that there are approx. 300 Siskins at Worlingham Marshes so may trot along their this morning

My daughter is with us for two nights and may take her to see the seals at Horsey, although it's looking cloudy at the moment.

Reported sightings of a short eared owl stirred me from the football on the tv this afternoon, but as usual it did not want to see me. However as soon as I moved away from the car and headed along the severnside estuary, first sighting was a kestral hovering about 50 yds away. Then it dropped onto a log and hopped onto the ground and out of sight. As it popped back onto the log, a mouse was hanging from its beak. It dropped of the log again and then flew off. A mile or so along the track, I came across a little egret feeding in a distant pool. Returning to the car, I was putting away my camera and binoculars when a fellow birder pulled up for a chat, when a pair of perigrines were chasing a pigeon which they caught right above us, then they flew back towards their nesting place alongside the old bridge, probably about a mile carrying the pigeon. Unfortunately I could not get the camera out until the bird was heading away with the catch.

Tried again to get the Long tailed tits, but yet again missed the sunlight, just went out too late.  I will try again the next (tuesday) sunny day,  I consoled myself with a walk up the river...loads of Widgeon, swans and Pintail's.  Egrets were around and a couple of Marsh Harriers, the harriers are always there.

It seems the Waxwings are a thing of the past, unless you live in Bury St Edmunds.

There have been a number of reported sightings around the Bristol area of small groups of waxwing , but only it seems for one visit to each site.

Still hoping as there are many trees around laden with berries.

I've put a story on about NT Stourhead today but couldn't include the photo of these snowdrops which was a cheery site. The lakes were frozen over so many of the water fowl were teetering around on the ice and the coots had taken to dry land. I spotted a nuthatch, whitehroats and blackcaps.

Managed my first Waxwings of the Winter today. 20 in a pub car park in Worsley, very handy and definitely 1 up from the usual supermarket car park site they pick.