Myles Offside Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Little black..... whoops, sorry.... Pacific black ducks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Pleased with today's efforts. Dipper, songthrush, wee Robin, a male woodpecker from a distance, and a redwing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 ‘Scuds the terrible zoomed in pic, but does anyone know what this is? Loads of them near with just now. Big duck/small goose size. Mostly white but with browny/black bits and a red stripe, like a wee swan in an early 1990s Sergio Tacchini tracksuit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 18 minutes ago, Shandön Par said: ‘Scuds the terrible zoomed in pic, but does anyone know what this is? Loads of them near with just now. Big duck/small goose size. Mostly white but with browny/black bits and a red stripe, like a wee swan in an early 1990s Sergio Tacchini tracksuit. Shelduck? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, Hillonearth said: Shelduck? That’ll be them, ta! “A big goose-like duck that lives by the coast”. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, Shandön Par said: That’ll be them, ta! “A big goose-like duck that lives by the coast”. Aye - by the description could only be that or a male red-breasted merganser, which doesn't look even remotely goose-like...always looks vaguely dinosaury to me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 I saw a grey wagtail by the Water of Leith today. Of course I hadn't taken my camera with me but it's nice to know they're there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 New one for me yesterday, either a goldcrest or a firecrest. Hopefully will be back today and will try and get a pic of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 4 hours ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: New one for me yesterday, either a goldcrest or a firecrest. Hopefully will be back today and will try and get a pic of it. I spotted a gold crest for the first time last week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 11 minutes ago, Ziggy said: I spotted a gold crest for the first time last week. Think it definitely was a goldcrest. No sign of it today unfortunately. Beutifull wee bird. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Just had about 20 of these land on the tree outside. Shite photo and they’ve fucked off again. Thrush sized, white speckled belly. Brown backs. Last seen heading towards the Law. Redwings maybe? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Just had about 20 of these land on the tree outside. Shite photo and they’ve fucked off again. Thrush sized, white speckled belly. Brown backs. Last seen heading towards the Law. Redwings maybe? Fieldfares I reckon - the light obviously isn't great, but bottom left one at least seems to be showing some grey on its head and back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Hillonearth said: Fieldfares I reckon - the light obviously isn't great, but bottom left one at least seems to be showing some grey on its head and back. Aye, was definitely some grey on their domes. Fieldfares probably. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Just spotted the Latin name for fieldfares. Lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 20 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Just spotted the Latin name for fieldfares. Lol. The Tibetan blackbird (Turdus maximus) gets my vote for sounding most like a character from The Life of Brian. Sadly, for obvious geographic reasons it's very unlikely to ever feature on the British list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugna Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 14 hours ago, tamthebam said: I saw a grey wagtail by the Water of Leith today. Of course I hadn't taken my camera with me but it's nice to know they're there. We see grey wagtails quite a lot in the stretch between the steps that go down from the cycle track near Roseburn, and Dean Village. There was one on the walkway of the office right across from the bottom of those steps every time we went there over about 3 weeks, at the start of January. The back of Edinburgh Sports Club is another good place to see them along that stretch, and we also saw one bullying a dipper off its rock under Belford Bridge. Dippers also regularly seen behind ESC, and occasionally near the bottom of the big steps. There's also a reasonable chance of a kingfisher along that beat, sometimes perched between the steps and the back of the Gallery of Modern Art, and sometimes a bit further downstream. In the winter of 2014-15, we were pretty much guaranteed a good kingfisher spot when doing that walk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 2 hours ago, Hillonearth said: The Tibetan blackbird (Turdus maximus) gets my vote for sounding most like a character from The Life of Brian. Sadly, for obvious geographic reasons it's very unlikely to ever feature on the British list. Seen a few of them during lockdown tbf. I blame the bread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rider Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 We had a Reed Bunting at the feeders in the back garden today during the snow. Thought it was a fancy sparrow before working it out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotfree Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Kookaburra on my front fence. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, scotfree said: Kookaburra on my front fence. Where in Fife are you? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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