I'm wondering if someone can identify these birds. Firstly, there was a flock of gulls causing a commotion at the end of my street for no reason I was able to discern. Not sure what they are though. Perhaps mostly juvenile? But anyone know what breed?
Secondly, the two black birds on my fence were visitors to my garden (bullying the pigeon on the ground feeder). I'm almost certain they aren't jackdaws and wonder if they are ravens, as I suspect, or actually crows? Not sure.
Denise
The gulls look like black-headed gulls - you should see their hoods starting to appear from next month. I don't think your black birds are ravens - they're not big enough. Have they visited your garden before? I did think they were jackdaws - crows are very wary and they usually scarper the minute you point a camera at them, unless they are used to you.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Agree with Clare they look like B.H.Gulls in winter plumage.Jackdaws sound the best bet for garden visitors.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
Yeah, I normally get one quite often. First time I've ever had two in the garden. I looked at some pictures of jackdaws and they just didn't look similar to me. We do get some really big black birds in the area which I am convinced are ravens (they towered over the pigeon). I could be wrong, though, as I am definitely a 'learner' bird watcher. :)
Yeah, was looking at online pictures earlier and they do look far more like crows.