It’s actually a female Cirl Bunting. The yellow underbelly is not easily recognisable in females. The pic could also be of a juvenile.
Kudos goes to Wing Commander Leuth though for identifying as one of the Buntings.
Cirl Buntings are in sharp decline and only a few pairs in The UK, which is its most northerly location. It can be seen in a few places in Devon/Cornwall.
It’s actually a female Cirl Bunting. The yellow underbelly is not easily recognisable in females. The pic could also be of a juvenile.
Kudos goes to Wing Commander Leuth though for identifying as one of the Buntings.
Cirl Buntings are in sharp decline and only a few pairs in The UK, which is its most northerly location. It can be seen in a few places in Devon/Cornwall.
fck me I was going to say cirl bunting … I actually was. And before any other Mention of any other bunting. But when other buntings were dismissed I didn’t bother. Someone give me a like. I knew.
3 pages in, and I'm impressed no-one's mentioned jizz yet...
(that's about the limit of my birdwatching knowledge, and even that comes from here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H92EPyxDBk
One from yesterday. I think some will get it pretty easily, but I hope it's a reasonable test at an intermediate level.
Some sort of godwit. We have eastern bar tailed godwits visit our shores from Siberia (!!!!) every year . They fly non stop and lose a third of their body weight or some such . Longest migration on the planet . Any further and they are practically on the way back. Incredible little fckrs. Love em . They do go back at the end of summer.
This is where everyone says 'ooh ooh ptarmigan!' but it's actually a white-phase Willow Grouse EDIT no it IS a (rock) ptarmigan, viz. the following extract: the male willow ptarmigan lacks the rock ptarmigan's black stripe between the eyes and bill.
This is where everyone says 'ooh ooh ptarmigan!' but it's actually a white-phase Willow Grouse EDIT no it IS a (rock) ptarmigan, viz. the following extract: the male willow ptarmigan lacks the rock ptarmigan's black stripe between the eyes and bill.
Very good
I currently have Gold Finches in my garden - lovely little things - re-filled our feeders this morning, and they were watching me and twittering away - I imagined them saying to each ‘about bloody time, you lazy git, should have done that yesterday’ !!
A lovely bubbling call they have too. Rightly known as a collective charm. The past 20 years have seen them go from an occasional sighting to ubiquitous in suburban London
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Looks like there's hundreds of the little buggers
Kudos goes to Wing Commander Leuth though for identifying as one of the Buntings.
Cirl Buntings are in sharp decline and only a few pairs in The UK, which is its most northerly location. It can be seen in a few places in Devon/Cornwall.
fck me I was going to say cirl bunting … I actually was. And before any other Mention of any other bunting. But when other buntings were dismissed I didn’t bother. Someone give me a like. I knew.
(that's about the limit of my birdwatching knowledge, and even that comes from here:
http://rspb.org.uk/reviveourworld
I currently have Gold Finches in my garden - lovely little things - re-filled our feeders this morning, and they were watching me and twittering away - I imagined them saying to each ‘about bloody time, you lazy git, should have done that yesterday’ !!