Great shot, they’re not the easiest to capture.
Have you seen the pics of the Siberian Blue Robin trapped and ringed on Orkney this afternoon?
4th record for Britain. There’ll be a lot of twitchers throwing sickies tomorrow.
5 Likes
I have now - Cheers.
Yes, charming. Great photo.
and just by coincidence I am watching the amazing film of the birdman of Alcatraz
1 Like
Great bearded tit. 
5 Likes
Woken up by an owl going mad yesterday. Before six.
There’s a few round here and when they all get going it’s a wonderful thing. Being dark it makes seeing them difficult even when you know where they are by the racket.
Usually the big tree in my garden! Some years I see them. This year it’s all been hearing them.
1 Like
I’ll twitch you in a minute, bucket face 
3 Likes
Went checking, since these were part of my winter soundscape memory of Shetland.
1 Like
Striated Heron
2 Likes
Cheers just goes to show how ignorant I am with all things avian Paul 
1 Like
each to their own, mate
A local heron looking particularly curmudgeonly
Standing heron.jpg by DaveBailey1, on Flickr
4 Likes
Ok stop rubbing it in 
1 Like
Pleased to hear Caroline Steel on ‘Inside Science’ (R4) today talking about soundscapes as a measure of bio-diversity. Lead me to finding this.
Todays birding fact.
A Clark’s Nutcracker (North American passerine) buries 30,000 pine nuts each autumn in an area covering 100 square miles. The following spring, it remembers the location of a staggering 70% of them
4 Likes
