I was driving through North Yorks visiting my son at university when I took a wrong turn and had to turn around in a farm track entrance somewhere west of Scarborough. and as I checked my mirror there was a Tree Sparrow feeding a juvenile on the fence :)
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Hi Seymour
Great to see a Tree Sparrow and your wrong turn was a good thing after all.
Must have been so sweet to see the mother bird looking after her chicks.
Regards
Kathy and Dave
This reminds me, I got a new bird/ lifer/ tick in my wing mirror once- Laughing Dove in Turkey :)
Anyone else got a weird sighting?
Well it's not a weird sighting as such, but I have been looking for a close encounter with a red kite for ages and ages. My 100-400mm lens takes a reasonably decent photo even when I've seen one high up, but nevertheless I have never seen one 'up close and personal' so to speak.
Yesterday after a morning birding around Woolhampton gravel pits, where I had seen a pair of hobby's that mainly insisted on appearing only as black silhouettes on my photos (haven't looked through them all yet, so maybe I have a decent pic) we went to a little place called Tree World nursery on the way home, to see if they had any Norway Maple trees.
After dawdling around for several minutes to have a look what was available we went back towards the car and this shadow suddenly passed directly overhead. As I looked up I saw the closest red kite I have ever seen directly above me. I dashed back to the car, got my camera out of the bag and took as many shots as I could before it went higher and flew away. I kid you not that I felt I had to duck it looked so big.
This might not be the best shot as I haven't looked at them all yet, but it's OK:
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One word Chris....WOW!!!!
Pipit
Not really weird but very unusual.
Last year a house martin got wedged in our sash window. I was able to study it closely before gently pushing the window up to release it. What I noticed, apart from how beautiful it was, were its stunted little feet and that it was covered in horrible mites or fleas.
Wow Chris fantastic shot of your Red kite.
Sarah
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Not so much weird either but a bit of a surprise and a rather unusual visitor this morning. This was the only shot I got of it as I didn't have my camera ready and was rather unprepared. This could double up as a mystery quiz - but not for the experts as it's too easy.
Great photo Chris.
TJ
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That's a colourful character TJ.
No idea what it is except to guess at a budgie or exotic finch. Looks like the peanuts are a bit of a challenge!!
Pipit x
Unknown said:One word Chris....WOW!!!!
Hi Pipit
That's exactly the word I said (several times!) when I was putting my camera back in the boot. I feel privileged that he came down so low while I was there.
Thanks Bramble & TJ :-)
Hi TJ
Wow! What a visitor to the garden. Is that a parakeet?