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krappyrubsnif · March 2018

Could I have seen a Fieldfare in the street in Stroud Green just now? First for me if so.

flembo · March 2018

Yes. A few years ago when there was snow, there were waxwings and fieldfares looking for food in our garden.

flembo · March 2018

Funny enough. A Fieldfare is in the garden now.

Thirdeariespace · March 2018

Oh wow, as a Swede I hadn't even realised it was a rare bird here. Where I'm from it's easily one of the most common garden birds, there's hundreds of them every summer. My mother, when she still had her garden, hated them for being particularly destructive and "rude" (her words).

flembo · March 2018

The Björktrast, the name in Sweden for the Fieldfare is more common than here. It tends to be in woodlands, farmland in England rather than urban areas. It is a bird in decline here and is on the red alert list of the RSPB. We usually only see them here when it's very cold weather.

conformable_kate · March 2018

Out to dinner this evening, this very subject came up! Fieldfares spotted in archway and putney, apparently. Not sure I'd know one if I saw it, but will look up.

miss annie · March 2018

They look like a very flamboyant thrush.

conformable_kate · March 2018

And having looked at some pictures, I think I saw a little gathering just off Colney hatch lane yesterday, too. Maybe they're moving in.

Billy Bookcase · March 2018

Lots of Fieldfares to be seen at Ally Pally and even in Woodberry Wetlands. Many Redwings too--another winter migrant Thrush. They've also
been known to hang out with the Mistle Thrushes in Finsbury Park.

tosscat · March 2018

I saw lots on HIghbury Fields yesterday evening.
Snaps to the 'flamboyant thrush' @miss annie .
Mostly thrush, a bit robin and a dash of goldcrest.

krappyrubsnif · March 2018

Saw a couple on a tree in Finsbury Park yesterday. Now I know what to look for I'm seeing them everywhere, funny how in a lifetime of amateur birdwatching I've never noticed them before , must be because out in the sticks hey're too common to be commented on.

Redwing next.

Scruffy · March 2018

I wish we had giant petrels in the Park. Heard them on Radio 4’s TFTD. I imagine that’s what pterodactyls sounded like! (They probably eat dogs and small children, though.)

dion · March 2018

I saw a red kite flying over ally pally on Tuesday morning. Being harrassed by a crow

dion · March 2018

The red kite. Not me

krappyrubsnif · March 2018

Moving on from boring old Fieldfares - could I have seen a Marsh Tit or Willow Tit on the feeder today? Again, new to me and I didn’t know they came into the city.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/marsh-tit/

dion · March 2018

Maybe a coal tit

krappyrubsnif · March 2018

Nope. I know what they look like - first thought I had too.

miss annie · March 2018

Could be a Blackcap? I'd never seen one here until it snowed.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/blackcap/

krappyrubsnif · March 2018

Looks like it, thanks Miss Annie. I've seen those in the country but not here before - I thought it was a moorland bird. I'll look it up.

Billy Bookcase · March 2018

Today on the feeders and in the garden: Blackcap, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Coal tit, Blue tit, Great tit, Long-tailed tit, Songthrush, Greater spotted woodpecker, blackbird, wren, Jay, Magpie, Wood Pidgeon, Robin, Goldcrest, Sparrow, Dunnock. Heard but not seen in MPVillas Mistle Thrush, Yaffle. SPRING is close.

miss annie · March 2018

No Goldcrest or Dunnock here, we get all the rest. No GS Woodpeckers last year but they've come back this year. Nothing nicer than a bit of birdwatching from the kitchen window to start the day.

HolbornFox · March 2018

I was thinking about the woodpeckers in Queens Wood earlier actually, they're brilliant.

krappyrubsnif · March 2018

@Billy Bookcase that's incredible and I'm very jealous - if you are near the allotments and Parkland Walk it just shows what a difference some vegetation and wildwood makes. Here in Lorne Road we have only ever seen 15 of your 18 species and never more than eight or nine in a single day. Never had chaffinch, greenfinch or woodpecker at all. When I was a child in Bristol I remember bullfinch too - you never see them now.

miss annie · March 2018

I'm in Moray Rd, but we have quite a wild garden with plenty of shrubbery, ivy, fruiting plants and massive mature trees at the back. That makes a huge difference. There is a colony of Pied Wagtails living in the car park at Tottenham Hale retail park, they mob you for crumbs. Lots of Green Woodpeckers on the baseball field in the Park. Birds set up home in the most unlikely places.

krappyrubsnif · March 2018

Three or four years ago we had a wren nesting in the porch - *in the porch!* - and a robin nesting in the outside toilet. They both had broods.

miss annie · March 2018

How lovely! I'm hoping that the wrens that hang out in next door's wisteria will nest.

trainspotter · April 2018

I'm not so much of an ornithologist as others on this thread but I think I saw an owl of some sort in my garden the other night. It definitely looked owl-shaped as it flew in (it was darkish but not quite fully dark) and sounded like an owl hooting. What kind would it have been likely to be do you think?

miss annie · April 2018

Probably a Tawny Owl, there's an old thread about them here http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/comment/47032#Comment_47032

trainspotter · April 2018

Thanks Miss Annie - sounds like it - was definitely a "hoo hoo" sound though it didn't seem to be coming from the owl I saw - makes sense that it was a call and response.

trainspotter · April 2018

PS it was sitting in a tree on the GOBLIN railway embankment, rather than Parkland Walk, and am gratified that the trees were saved after the worry of last year.

dion · April 2018

Have just seen first London swallows of the year - summer almost here

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