#birdsightings

[6footsixmro]

The beautiful Eurasian Bullfinch

[jnaneshkumar]

Red-wattled lapwing . . . Camera details: Nikon D7500 with Tamron SP 150-600mm Di VC USD G2 #lapwing #redwattledlapwing #vanellusindicus #plover #birding #birdingphotography #birdclicks #birdpictures #birdsighting #wildlife #wildlifepictures #wildlifephotography #wildlifeclick #photography #nature #natgeoyourshot #natgeo #beautyofnature #naturelovers #naturepics #beautyofworld https://www.instagram.com/p/CmwQ2B9M74S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[treasureseekersshelltours]

This amazing shot of a White Pelican in flight was captured just off of Dickmans Island by Captain Matt.

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The White Pelican is only here for a few months during our winter making these sightings a real treat!

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Photo by: @Capt_Matts_Wanderlust_WonderS

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Join us on a tour and get a chance to see these magnificent birds while they’re still here.

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#whitepelican #greatwhitepelican #pelican #snowbird #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #travelflorida #realflorida #floridabeaches #tenthousandislands #floridavacation #thingstodoinflorida #coastal #coastalsystems #floridamasternaturalist #birdsighting

[canadapoast]

loving birdsights protracted death

[evilpawnjewelry]

Yesterday I saw a Robin clicking around on the grass, directly in front of me. He was a pretty little guy, and I am one of those people that looks for the symbolic language in every manifestation set before me. Sometimes you get that world voice breaking the noise barrier in your head; the feeling of dread… “It’s just a bird. A Robin at that, those are a dime a dozen, like blades of grass… calm down on the overlook little sister.” The spiritual being in me draws her sword. Logical vs analytical is another dance I learned steps to in my adult life. This world can press you to commit to its fitted silhouette, there is a placement for everything and as you know… my profile wasn’t made for such a mold. My child-like vision focuses on the Robin. It is a manifestation of the other side, making itself known in this world. Like a hand puppet in a play, there is a literal hand in it, that hand manifests itself as the puppet on stage. So I focus in further to understand it. I made sure to write out my journaling exercises concerning what an overplayed symbol in a world of overplayed everything could mean… as you write anything out, the meaning emerges because words are spells… and spelling is magic. The best magic is confronting what you are, not just the shadow, but the shine as well. Confront the times you tried to change it because the world said so. Confront the skeptical and the unrealistic. Become both sides of the coin, so you can be the coin itself. I have always been a huge journal writer and am big into Sadhana Journaling. Doing a huge symbolic language journal exercise with one of EPJ’s Patreon tiers. One thing I constantly do is quote The Little Prince in my head when I think of animals. What a profound impression a childhood book could have. My Grandma Veda read it to me and my cousin so much that I know the book by heart. So I leave you with this… “It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a [person] of true wisdom.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 💜 #Hekate #Hecate #Robin #BirdLife #BirdWatcher #BirdSightings ##SymbolicLanguage #TheLittlePrince #TheRunOff #TheShadowSelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CMhpQMdFZKz/?igshid=1js2m96pfm0us

[umbramoonbunny]

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Let me see your #peacock 🦚 so cute! #adorable #peacock #martienez #peacockfeathers #pretty #aesthetic #crazy #random #birdsightings https://www.instagram.com/p/CGTF7VrHF4c/?igshid=tuoncuugbtbe

[daily-mcyt-drawings]

Daily Drawing 101: Catified Desert Duo

giving into my impulses was the best thing ever, look at these guys

[iguannarock]

Diego Lira Munizaga 🤘 Comunicador Audiovisual 🎥 Gracias por la foto Wala 😘 @tienesquesaltar Estaba grabando golondrinas. Es mucho más difícil de lo que parece. Y ya parece difícil 😅 #comunicadoraudiovisual #cameraman #golondrinas #birdsighting #observandoaves #pedrodevaldiviaalto #sony #sonynx3 #libec #illmissithere (en Rafael Miranda 89) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZQNhqHsrRw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sussex-nature-lover]

Friday 7 January 2022

At Home

It’s been so dark and wet that we haven’t ventured out - here’s an example from Instagram, it’s Bodiam Castle near us and it speaks for itself.

No hibernating for MsNWtE though, well, you just can’t when you have a four legged friend to walk. Never-the-less such application brings its own rewards and not least Doctor P’s gratitude.

Someone in the neighbourhood was busy spreading seasonal joy: the Yarn Bombers had been out in force

Doctor Pepper would love to get outside again - although the boggy winter lawn seems to be slowly making its way indoors looking at the impact she’s had on that new doormat.

I think she’s sorry, but what’s a girl with muddy paws to do?

Back at the Naturewatch homestead I’ve been sky watching. We opened the curtains one morning to this strange cloud. It kind of looked like a tornado and as it progressed across the sky I could make it in to a long feather.

The sky over the woods has been filled by seagulls this week, this shot only captured a tiny fraction of how many are here.

I say seagulls as that’s what nearly everyone refers to them as - in this instance, as in my List of Birds Here In 2021, these were common gulls. The BTO tells me that 

In Britain, we have six species of commonly occurring breeding gulls – the Herring Gull, the Lesser Black-backed Gull, the Great Black-backed Gull, the Black-headed Gull, the Common Gull and the Kittiwake.

I got myself in a fix in the alphabetical line up and so you’ll see on my list that common gull is in the S section. Whoops! but you know what I mean.

Back down on the ground, Pritchard is here every day. He still wanders across the three gardens though.

Here he is taking the weight of his feet and admiring himself reflected in next door’s porch window and from next door but one, K sent this photo of him displaying beautifully on their shed roof.

I have to say, his tail feathers are coming along so well now and even on the dullest and greyest day, the sheen and the vibrancy are quite stunning. I think he looks like a New Year firework there.

The colourful male pheasants haven’t been back lately, but this single female certainly knows where the seed lives.

She’s quite a small girl, but also very lovely in that classic, understated way. Currently she’s this year’s MILLY (No Mates) but I’m sure others will soon join her.

What is funny is that for all his size and impressive appearance, Inspector Pritchard seems to be quite afraid of her and on Sunday he was running away from her, taking refuge on the decking until she ventured that way. He tried hiding in the shrubbery too, but in the end took off for a quieter life somewhere else.

It amazes me still how much you can engage with nature without leaving your own four walls. As I type I’m sat looking out and so far have seen loads of house sparrows, dunnock, nuthatch, a great spotted woodpecker on the hanging feeders, coal and marsh, great and blue tits, wood pigeon, blackbird, robins, Pritchard the peacock and also two magpies together. I hope they bring joy. My Crow has also seen the female pheasant. Counting up the birds we saw in the garden in 2021 - and that was actually in the garden either on the ground, the feeders or in our trees, not in the sky above - we made a total of 39. We saw fieldfare and redwing for a few days as well, but as they stayed in the field across the lane, I haven’t counted them. I’ve done a post and documented what was here, see the link at the end if you want a look. With the appearance of Long Tailed Tits at the feeders late on yesterday afternoon the 2022 running total now stands at Ta Daaah...22. I’m very pleased with that.

I think I caught a fleeting glimpse of a wren at the front of the house, which is who we think is over-wintering in the porch. I know wren was building in this box last Spring and every time I thought I might clear it out, something seemed to have moved slightly, so I left it alone and now, you can see that fresh moss has been taken in and there’s some working on the entrance hole, neatening and tightening the weave. The difference in these two photos about four days apart, is very subtle, but noticeable to the naked eye in real life. 

If you scroll down to my last but one post you can see I picked a wren’s nest out of my new book, in fact, there are three different ones in that book, all lovely and such a lot of work for a tiny bird.

It’s actually much easier to tell with the naked eye. Using flash takes something away from the subtle changes, but it’s too dark in the porch not to use the flash.

Someone else has been doing a bit of building in the porch. Crow reckoned there was a bird on the porch floor, but despite it moving too quickly to see clearly, I think it was a little mouse who’s made a home inbetween the lowest row of logs. Every time we pass through the hallway we peep out of the windows ‘PORCH WATCH 2022′ is live folks. I’ll let you know if we reach a positive ID.

Here’s the link to my other page where the list of 2021 birds in the garden can be found CLICK. Just scroll down past the entries about Goldfinches.

[aka-xn]

Rare all-stars of New England have been turning up late in the pandemic. Apologies for the lower-quality-than-usual pictures, but these celebs are VERY elusive, and you catch-as-catch-can when you’re lucky enough to run across one. The black #squirrels of New England are rather rare, but are actually not unusual. The World Famous Public Alley 701 has played host to a small, generational family line of black s#quirrel for a few decades now, and there’s always one or two sneaking around. The posh-ass gentrifying locals believe these elusive megastars bring up property values and probably graduated from Cornell or Yale and work in a prestigious VC firm on Broad Street. In reality, they are just a “#melanistic subgroup” of the good, old common grey #squirrel. Yes, racial diversity among these cuties is normal. (Unlike the current state of the #SouthEnd neighborhood they live in. Boop.) In other words: the #blacksquirrel is simultaneously special and “just like all the others,” all at once. I have always loved me a squirrel, and love how we smarty-fartsy human-types can learn from them. But I had no sooner finished swooning over my lucky run-in with that megastar after next spotting a local #diva who has held the top spot on the charts for millennia. The #mourningdove, known for her adestinctive, comfofting coo, which is much different from it’s rattier city-pigeon cousins. Sadly, the populations of this musical gem of #NewEngland has been on a steady decline in the past few decades. The iconic and tranquil song of these understated and delicate crooners was once everywhere, and now it is very rare to hear it in downtown. I was lucky to get the optimal concert seats even if I couldn’t snap a clear picture. But then again, these beauties are well camouflaged. I put some of the optics-fail on their press-agent’s public costuming choices. Two rare prestige superstars in one day. This fanboy is all bragging and instaflexing after these high-culture celebrity run-ins. ▫️ #urbannature #pigeon #blacksquirrel #dove #melanin #Boston #southend #birdsighting #cuties # ecology #akaXN #TheRealXN (at South End) https://www.instagram.com/p/COP9vdyDG38/?igshid=pbdp0s63z2t9

[chrysaliscreation]

The pics are horrible but he was a bit of a ways off and my phone only goes up to a 10x zoom... Plus the beautiful little bugger isn't a very big bird even if they are considered "mid-sized " but I present to you the Scarlet Tanager! Apparently in spite of their brighr shocking red plummage (brighter and darker then the cardinals, and they are smaller) they are hard to spot due to their smaller size and the fact they generally stay high in the tree canopies. Pretty damn lucky to get tp watch him for a while. Now to research any animal totem significance for me and my household. #animalmedicine #animaltotem #birdsighting #birdwatching #scarlettanager #witch #witchy #professionalgoth #witchesofinstagram🔮🌙 #witchesofinstagram #witchcraft #pagan #heathen #vamp #vampire #pagansofinstagram #vampiresofinstagram #goth #gothic #elder #eldergoth #permanentfangs #crone #instawitch #instagoth #instavampire #instavamp #instapagan #instagood https://www.instagram.com/p/B_tGlncH4lJ/?igshid=evqjdoj2hq42

[jnaneshkumar]

Asian green bee-eater . . . Camera details: Nikon D7500 with Tamron SP 150-600mm Di VC USD G2 #asiangreenbeeeater #beeeater #greenbeeeater #littlebeeeater #meropsorientalis #passerine #photography #birding #birdlovers #birdpictures #birdphotography #birdsofinstagram #birdsighting #birdclicks #birdpics #wildlifepictures #wildlifephotography #wildlife #wildlifepics #natgeoyourshot #nature #naturephotography #natgeo #natgeowild #nikonindia #tamron150600mm #tamronlens #natgeopictures #naturelovers #naturephotography #beautyofnature https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmoh9uRsEmV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[vedleevacations]

Black Redstart, resident of Indian Subcontinent, you can see flicking its tail all the time by naked eyes regardless it's small size. #flycatcher #bird_perfection #birdlove #birds_captures #birding_photography #birdingofinstagram #birdwatchers_daily #birdphotographyindia #wildlifebiologist #birdsighting #travelersnotebook #solotravel #girlgroup #sologirltravel #bangalore_insta #bangalorebirds #mumbaitravellers #bangaloretravellers #delhitravel #america #americanbirdconservancy (at India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9JzZefguNM/?igshid=7p5yyx4yi7fh

[moncob1]

#birds #birdsighting https://www.instagram.com/p/BxuY_fgjJov/?igshid=c6dap2ulqpr0

[elvenartist]

Morning crow visit #crows #birds #backyard #backyardbirds #birdfeeder #birdsighting #ilovecrows #witchythings #witch #witchystuff #witchesofinstagram #corvids https://www.instagram.com/p/BvejGO6ncl2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pr0tte06bmmx

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

Good prefixes for sight?

clearsight

owlsight

foxsight

wolfsight

deersight

streamsight

windsight

breezesight

icesight

frostsight

bearsight

badgersight

darksight

graysight

bluesight

greensight

moonsight

sunsight

cloudedsight

cloudsight

rainsight

stormsight

hailsight

treesight

leafsight

fernsight

brightsight

ivysight

dovesight

birdsight

eaglesight

hawksight

buzzardsight