I saw a dark shape today plummeting toward the earth, a bird in a full on dive, wings tucked in, on a mission it could only be a raptor and we all now who dives like this, I had my bins ready trying to focus on it as it perhaps made a kill, but something was amiss,
as it slowly came out of its dive the black primary feathers looked dark next to the two blooming massive wingbars and pink chest of a dam Woodpigeon, I swear, it laughed as it bounced across the field with a hop skip and a jump.....
Keep birding ( excluding Columba palumbus)
michaelburns said
Mon Sep 11 10:06 PM, 2017
Thanks it could have been, perhaps a young bird that hadn't got it adult colouring.
ps it was quite assertive amongst the surrounding sparrows (and a robin)
michaelburns said
Sun Sep 10 8:05 PM, 2017
Hello My wife and I spotted an unusual bird picking up seed one morning last week, from underneath a feeder in our garden in Denton (near the reservoirs). It was about the size and similar in shape to a robin. It had a brown crown and back, a yellow throat and shoulders and a white breast, wings and tail. I wonder if anyone knows what the bird was?
It's also been a good year for bullfinches in our garden, one of the best since we moved here about 15 years ago. We've had quite a few sightings, and greenfinches also seem much more common this year.
I saw a dark shape today plummeting toward the earth, a bird in a full on dive, wings tucked in, on a mission it could only be a raptor and we all now who dives like this, I had my bins ready trying to focus on it as it perhaps made a kill, but something was amiss,
as it slowly came out of its dive the black primary feathers looked dark next to the two blooming massive wingbars and pink chest of a dam Woodpigeon, I swear, it laughed as it bounced across the field with a hop skip and a jump.....
Keep birding ( excluding Columba palumbus)
Thanks it could have been, perhaps a young bird that hadn't got it adult colouring.
www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/s/siskin/index.aspx
Hello My wife and I spotted an unusual bird picking up seed one morning last week, from underneath a feeder in our garden in Denton (near the reservoirs). It was about the size and similar in shape to a robin. It had a brown crown and back, a yellow throat and shoulders and a white breast, wings and tail. I wonder if anyone knows what the bird was?
It's also been a good year for bullfinches in our garden, one of the best since we moved here about 15 years ago. We've had quite a few sightings, and greenfinches also seem much more common this year.