I spent a thouroughly enjoyable morning watching a pair of Yellowhammers, coming and going from the nest, with food for the young, and foraging within a few metres of me. It was a beautiful sunny day, and bird activity was very high all morning. In the c.100 metres of hedgerow i was observing, there were; Yellowhammer, 1 pair, Chaffinch, 2 pairs, Blackbird, Dunnock, Song thrush, Whitethroat, Tree sparrow, Starling, and Goldfinch, all one pair each, all toing and froing with food for their young, making for a very busy scene!
Between us, we got so much good data, we decided an afternoon or birding was on the cards, so we went up to Blackdog and the ythan, to see what was around. Which amounted to not a lot at all, really! 2 Whimbrels, and about 40 Barwits on the ythan, the ever present Osprey, and a rather unseasonal drake Goldeneye at the mouth of the river.
aberdeen birder
Pah!
I refuse to believe that the following birds are genuine:
- Dunnock
- Whitethroat
- Tree sparrow
- Whimbrels
- Barwits
- Goldeneye
Are you making all this up??
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They all exist, apart from the barwit, which is a shortened version of the equally ridiculous sounding Bar-tailed godwit! They are all rather tame, too! I could be talking about Phalaropes, Boobies, Noddies, Todies, Fodies, Glittering sunangels, glowing pufflegs, Blue-bearded bee-eaters ( which only eat blue bearded bees!)and many many others! I will endevour to come up with the stupidest real bird name. ( although glowing puffleg will take some beating!)
Glowing what??
Yes I like the glowing puffleg. Sounds like something you'd turn up to A&E with!