10 / 10 breakaway bird chat thread - 100x keep out strictly no admittance

[FrannyandZooey]

here you go chaps

I do like a nice heron.

Parrots and chickens and herons and cranes and sparrows and kites and swallows

My best bird sighting of the year is a red kite near HC's house

I got very over excited and HC told all her friends and they laughed at me

closely followed in the number two top bird spot by a cormorant right near my house which was ruddy superb. They are huge, and black, and they stand up and shake their massive wings out. Then they kind of saunter off about 2 inches above the river

and don't forget A MYNAH BIRD HIDING NEXT TO THE LAMP

We went to the WWT at Slimbridge today.

I don't know that i really like birds. Not when there ar elots of them. And when they swoop around.

But there were soem pretty ducks, striking colours.
And flamingos (they stank)

But I still maintain that swans are really terrifying.

We have a very nic elittle robin that visits our garden.
He is a good size.

Oh, F&Z, we have a family of buzzards here. Strange noises.

And we had a woodpecker this year and last, in th espring.

There's a river near my house and i saw a kingfisher this summer, very exciting. And a marsh harrier - it was huge. There are sheep fields full of ponds and there are always lots of herons standing very still. Herons are still my favourite birds.

I would love to see a kingfisher. We had a mandarin duck in the local duck pond earlier this year and it was so cool, it looked like something made up in a book, with all the colours painted on.

What do buzzards sound like? We have a woodpecker or two near here which is fab. Considering I live about 5 mins from the centre of town I can't quite believe we get so many birds here, but we are so lucky there is still a strip of greenness near us. They keep building on it more and more each year though

Like a high pitched dog whistle.
Sort of a pheee pheeee sound.

We go to visit a local castle often which has aviaries and there is a Toucan which does look exactly like it has had its colours painted on.

I've never seen a Kingfisher in this country but once when we were in France canoing down a river.

I am quite fond of owls, too, and so is DS.

We see lots of herons by the canal and the very occasional kingfisher. Ducks, geese, swans, moorhens and coots of course. And grey wagtails. And a dipper once - think it was a bit lost though. Our cat is called Dipper too.
I love it when green woodpeckers laugh at me in the fields.