Don’t know what you mean, my garden is hoaching with Hoopoes and Roseate Terns. I can hardly get peace to take the bin out for the Red-footed Falcons swooping me.
Where the fck do they get this shite from…
I tell you what’s unusual in my garden Albatrosses. Rare visitors in Kingston, but notable and I certainly always mention their visits to my neighbours not that they give a shit about wildlife.
Where do they get these people?
Goldfinches are pretty common and we’ve had bullfinches in our garden. I did see Hoopooes reasonably often when I lived down in Sussex but I’ve never seen a Roseate Tern, presumably because Sea Holly doesn’t grow very well in suburban gardens. I suspect I could plant as much March Thistle as I liked but would struggle to attract a Red Footed Falcon, although I probably wouldn’t recognise it if I did.
Albatrosses, none yet but I live in hope 
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Parakeets absolutely doing my nut in tonight.
SHUT UP YOU NOISY LITTLE GREEN BASTARDS.
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Back to St Aidens RSPB today for the first time in ages. There is a resident pair of little owls that live by old mining machinery.
I was able to watch one until the local cat showed up. Love to see them.
Previous post I said I had seen a number of dead Black Backed Gulls, not sure whether greater or lesser.
Well they were neither - the local warden said none had been affected.
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This evening sitting with my nearly 5 year old granddaughter watching house martins perched on the warm roof opposite and flying above. Couldn’t count how many.
She loved it.
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Lots of Whitethroats in Richmond Pk this year
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Very similar to your Greater Spotted Woodpecker. And just as the Greater Spotted has a similarly coloured smaller cousin in the Lesser Spotted, the Hairy is almost identical to the smaller Downy Woodpecker
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Exotica from Spain (Glossy Ibis)
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Treated myself.
They are excellent, and although they have some limitations they are so small as to be carry anywhere at any time. 250g.
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Cattle Egrets in Catalonia
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There are owls making a daytime racket in the trees next to me. I can hear them but never see them in the day.
Given I had the new bins it was nice of them to fly out the laurel bush and both sit next door letting me watch them.
Sadly my phone couldn’t zoom 7x so the brown blob is the best I could do (top of the laurel).
Little Owl?
Or is it just far away?
Tawny.
Flown directly past me a few times in the garden now. Stunning. Broad daylight and it’s just tree hopping. Can never get the camera quick enough.