Add your "Odds & Sods" here thread ... 2020

Starting with a first for me ... Sparrowhawk in neighbour's garden here in quarry, only ever seen a seemingly lost youngster many years ago!

Grabbed ID vid footage through d/glazed door, then battery died & by time I'd replaced it to go outside for better res a delivery driver stopped next door & frightened the bird off!! grrrrrr

Hope it's a one-off for the sake of my Spadger horde!

2019 thread here ... https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/196421/add-your-odds-sods-here-thread/1275306#1275306

 

 2013 photos & vids here

eff37 on Flickr

  • Wishing you both the best of everything in your moments of upheaval aitch ... but it's pretty exciting too ... looking forward to pics!

     

     2013 photos & vids here

    eff37 on Flickr

  • And from me and Mr GB, too, Hazel--best of luck with the final moving of stuff (and cleaning the rental place!) and with installing all of your new purchases once things become possible again. Not to mention, hope you can be reunited with all of your stored things very soon (after the new carpets are down, of course!) Which birds will you miss the most? For me it would be the House Martins, Swallows and Tree Sparrows.

    Kind regards, Ann

  • It wouldn't be normal if a grey squirrel didn't turn up but I won't be taking this one with me !

    As always, looking so innocent and not guilty of anything  lol

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    Regards, Hazel 

  • Unknown said:

    Thanks for the info Mike, it did pass over again so I guessed it was mapping;  unfortunately your link doesn't work.      Lovely photos of the frog-hopper cuckoo spit.

    Thank you on both the cuckoo spit and supplying a working FR24 link. My apologies re the Flight Radar link, it was an old one and I know they've had a big make-over since I last visited it properly

  • I rarely ever have a go with the 1.4X tele-converter, but thought I'd give it a bash today. :-)

    Meadow Pipit

    Male Stonechat.

    My bird photos HERE

  • Deep breath in Hazy, relax..........it will all be different in a week or two. All those spare floorboards to put down a yoga mat and remember no more cleaning!!!!!

    Lot to learn

  • Well still pretty much locked down up here so wa trailing through my archives and found this. Felt compelled to share as they are one of my favourites.

  • This footage got left behind on my cam & only discovered it when I downloaded Colin's ;latest visit ... this Jackdaw on the same cliff face Colin favours at times ... it is eating chalk!!  I have been advised that it needs this to aid egg production?   The Jackdaws are quite new visitors & still learning their habits!

     

     2013 photos & vids here

    eff37 on Flickr

  • Must be the calcium in the chalk to harden their egg shells. I have heard about it somewhere Wendy.

    Lot to learn

  • It's interesting how bird often peck at brick walls and now chalk areas;    I know the house sparrows at the rental place were constantly pecking at the red brick wall and mortar joints or at the fluorescence for their various properties  -   some of which is explained HERE        Not only Bearded Reedlings that need grit to aid break up and digestion either ! 

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    Regards, Hazel