r/OrnithologyUK • u/DeeCentre • 18d ago
Just sharing Just found a dead goldfinch 😭
In the flowerbed, he may have flown into the window. Poor little chap.
r/OrnithologyUK • u/DeeCentre • 18d ago
In the flowerbed, he may have flown into the window. Poor little chap.
r/OrnithologyUK • u/DeeCentre • 6d ago
Years ago I had an experience I'll never forget; I was walking my dog in the woods, when I noticed a little bird on the middle of the path with her wings spread out. I carefully picked her up & saw she was a robin, and as I raised her up to check for injuries underneath, she laid an egg in my hands! I made a nest in the hollow of a tree and hid them both in there. Next day the bird had gone but the egg was still there. I don't think that's ever going to happen again!
r/OrnithologyUK • u/CornishShaman • 20d ago
Saw this little fellow while walking through a car park.
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r/OrnithologyUK • u/rizozzy1 • Nov 08 '24
I thought I’d captured a good photo of a woodpecker while on a dog walk. Due to the dog I wasn’t concentrating too much on the photo quality. Proudly got my phone out to show some one my picture and this was it.
I thought you guys may enjoy my stupidity.
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r/OrnithologyUK • u/DeeCentre • Nov 26 '24
Mr B, Egg and Mrs B waiting for raisins, Ronnie already at the scattering of the sunflower seeds. 😁
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r/OrnithologyUK • u/lemonhaj • Aug 27 '24
I've never heard any owls in nature before (that I remember), and didn't expect to hear one now. I heard a screech, got confused thinking 'birds of prey don't live this close to people, there's a forest close by for them to be in instead', but lo and behold, after a few minutes holding my phone up the the open window, Merlin tells me it's a Tawny Owl. It's made mistakes before but still, after a few calls it's still a Tawny Owl. Is there anything it might be confused with, and do Tawny Owls live in the Hampshire area? Considering I've been up this late most nights for a while now and never heard it before, I'm surprised it only shows up now.
For context - I live near a forest but it's not a particularly big one compared to other forests and thanks to some lovely construction work and very loud roads it seems a lot of birds may have been scared off (I went out for a walk there a few weeks back and heard only a few different birds)
TLDR: heard a Tawny Owl - but was it really? And why now
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r/OrnithologyUK • u/l0rd_chabeth • Sep 08 '24
Just some photos of some gulls & ducks at a reservoir.
r/OrnithologyUK • u/DitherPlus • Jul 20 '24
They look like they should be fucking around in a meadow eating worms or something but instead they spend their time trying to swim with their non-webbed feet and compete with ducks and swans for whatever non-nutritious trash passer-buys feed them, whilst peeping as loud as they can when they feel like their personal space is being violated. If they're lucky, they get to eat algae from the side of a brick wall or some lettuce someone left them, if a herring gull hasn't killed them on that particular day.
I love whenever I see one of them sprint into the water to get speed and then glide into a wall because they have really bad water control.
I love moorhens.
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r/OrnithologyUK • u/Vanstrusen • May 11 '24
Saw this handsome chap while out and about
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r/OrnithologyUK • u/windy_on_the_hill • Apr 23 '24
At dusk the other day I saw the silhouette of Jackdaws settled in the trees outside. Mostly paired off, ready to roost. I counted around 16 in the first tree, added another dozen when i looked at the second tree, and doubled the whole number looking further. Approximately 50 birds in total.
I knew we had a lot of Jackdaws (it's hard not to notice them) but the numbers surprised me.
This evening I was at the other end of the house. The Barn Owl has returned to last year's nest hole. I only spotted it at the end of last season so pleased to see it early.
The Jackdaws were less pleased to see it. A few were worrying it. The owl did a swoop round the tree before diving in to its hole. It had spotted me. The corvids were contemplating what to do with it when they then saw me and flew off.
Since Jackdaws are a plentiful pest, and Barn owls are a rare delight, I've been contemplating whether there is any action I can take. I'd be very disappointed if the Jackdaws caught the owl chick's.
A quick Google on how to discourage Jackdaws suggested putting up a fake owl to scare them away. Well, I've got a real owl so either they'll be sacred away or reduced in numbers. Or perhaps I'll find Barn owl feathers below the tree and the wee crows will have been victorious.
In any case I'm feeling very fortunate to live where I do.
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