Garden birds today according to my Merlin app

[Delphigirl]

The Birds in my garden are all out and enjoying the breezy sunshine this morning. This is what I’ve caught in 16 minutes… would love to see others’ lists!
pS the chiff chaff is particularly noisy

Yes, I've found it's less effective with the lower-frequency sounds. Those birds are loud, but their sounds are not at all high-pitched.

Your colony sounds amazing. We have one about an hour's drive away and spent lots of time there in the summer.

We have blackbirds nesting in our roof so that’s mostly all I get.

Yesterday I also got European Goldfinch, Eurasian Jackdaw, House Sparrow and European Robin.

Today so far just the blackbirds and sparrows and one Eurasian Collared-Dove.

Red dot is rare, orange is uncommon for the bird to be seen at that location and time of year

I love the Merlin app, but it does come up with some funny suggestions, particularly when it hears a song thrush. I try to stay in the same area to see what it picks up again, but if it says it's heard something once I tend to think it's a similar call to another more likely bird.
Through using it I now know we have a resident pair of dunnocks who have the most amazing voice, almost like a robin. Speaking of, robins are still around even though I've not seen them in our garden recently.

Oh wow i hadn’t realised the significance of the red a d orange dots so thats really interesting thank you
my Merlin Morning swag …love this thread!

Love listening to the bird on my dog walk and beginning to recognise bird song now. However, twice recently I’ve gone to get my phone out of my and the stupid bird I wanted to identify decided to stop tweeting! (Obviously saw me and went into ‘hide’ mode).

My haul this morning - in a local woodland, rather than my garden.

While I was there I suddenly remembered I downloaded the app a few years ago and used it in the same woodland, where it detected…nothing at all! So I think it’s safe to say, it has improved over the years.

The app finally detected a herring gull for me as well this week. It was chasing a buzzard and making a lot of weird noises in the process.

I love the Merlin app, and try to remember to use it when away from home too. We also had a hoppoe pass by last year, and the occasional blue jay along with the more regular visitors.

If anyone can suggest a partner for the lonely and lovely blackbird who serenades me repeatedly from the holly tree just before 4am, I'd be grateful. Such a beautiful song, but so loud and so early.

We live very inland in the nth east, oystercatchers are very common round here, two were flying up the high street last week, we had them on the flat roof at school,common moorland birds, breed on rivers as well as being seen at coast.

I didn't get my phone out in time, so no Merlin, but had a good view earlier of a squabble between a group of ravens and some other corvids, probably Hooded/Grey-backed crows. Very vocal.

This was my list from yesterday’s walk. The only one I didn’t manage to see as well as hear was the garden warbler.

The app has even got my dh interested in bird watching (or listening). Walked along an estuary and marshes area the weekend and heard reed warblers, sedge warblers, black headed gulls, rooks etc. Alot of birds were hidden but did see oyster catchers and herons amongst others, and a large white bird I wasn’t sure what it was (egret?).

It's interesting to find out where the app's blank spots are: the other day I was walking through woods and very clearly heard a green woodpecker several times (not pecking, calling - it is very distinctive) but Merlin completely ignored it.

Egrets are becoming much more common in various parts of the UK. There are three different types on the north Norfolk coast now - little, great white and cattle - as well as spoonbills (also a large white bird).

We’ve got all of those on northwest England now as well. It’s fairly easy to tell them apart by their bills and size. And in the case of cattle egrets, so far I’ve only seen them together with cattle. At Martin Mere WWT I’ve started training my binoculars around the the Longhorns they have in the meadows around.

I love that you can do photo id as well.

Thank you for recommending this app, I have introduced my friends to it too and we love it! Here's a list from my walk at the weekend. Also saw a Skylark and a Robin!

Apparently there are now Rose Ringed Parakeets in my part of Leeds. I've yet to see any but they've been hanging around a cherry tree about half a mile from here. I have a cherry tree very close by but I only ever see jackdaws and wood pigeons on its branches.

They’ve made it to Preston too, we’ve heard them by the canal.

Dawn chorus in Oakham, where I’m staying, at 4am this morning

Lots of tawny owl calls where I am lately. I suspect what I'm hearing is the same bonded pair. I sat on my window seat the night before last listening to them communicate: the female ke-wicking outside in the big sycamore: the distant hoot of the male getting closer and closer. The female was flying in circles - I happened to catch a fleeting glimpse of her twice.

Male came back last night whilst I was sitting on the patio as night was coming on. Light summer evenings are the best: watching the swifts, swallows and house martins go home in the dusk, then for the bats to appear, then later the owls come out.

When I lived in the US near woodland, you could sometimes hear the territorial hoot of the great horned owl from miles away. Really haunting sound and the staple of the US horror movie! Owls are special birds: I'll never not feel a thrill every time I hear one.