What have you seen

Looks right Pliers but be a bit unusual to find 2 escapee ducks together. 

Mass escape from Martinmere?

+1👍🏻

Perhaps you are right. I am convinced of what I saw and it was a rather fleeting look but the Orange shoulder/wing stripe  was distinctive.

The Ringed Teal doesn't match with my recognition of the bird.

After taking my lead from Pliers I checked with RSPB & they confirmed it👍🏻, I’m happy to go along with Pliers hunch & RSPB’s ID👏🏻👏🏻

If you insistll

I don’t, it’s purely optional👍🏻

Saw first Ospreys of the season when 2 overflew us today.  No idea if they will hang around to feed or whether they will carry straight on 

They are early, it is usually not before the first week in March that they arrive at the next sites. Last year one was seen at Poole Harbour on 5th March, accords to the UKOsprey webbsite.

There have been numerous reports of sightings of them through France from early in January on the RSPB Loch Garten web site. https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/f/loch-garten-ospreys/282084/osprey-sightings-2023/1420323#pifragment-4292=1

Keep them lovely birds away from MY area pleeeease !!

Did a Full All~a~round  Top up of the feeders at my home, came in and gave my paws a good scrubbing { Birds can be the messiest of creatures   }, put the kettle on and brewed up, then settled down to watch what happened next .  Precisely ZERO happened thats what and all because a blooming SPARROWHAWK decided to  perch on the drinking/birdbath .

I hadn't the heart to drive it away ~~ they are just another one of natures Beauties after all,  but it didn't stay too long anyway, obviously liked Fast Food  !!

Same here ABM, we were enjoying the big variety of birds appearing this morning including a nice flock of goldfinches (or is that a "charm?") when everything exploded! Some of the hunting has been successful so the survival of the fittest is always there. Sparrowhawks are so clever at their game!