Birds in your garden/nearby
Discussion
Someone introduced me to an app this morning whilst out dog walking that identifies birdsong. I've used one before but it was a bit rubbish and this one (Merlin) was a bit of a step up and it led me to wonder where we all are in the country and what you have in your garden/surroundings?
I'm in the SW in an urban environment and mostly on my walk today and in my garden these seem the majority:
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Wood Pidgeon (do these count? Lets be honest they're just posh pigeons)
Blue Tit
Long Tailed Tit
I'm in the SW in an urban environment and mostly on my walk today and in my garden these seem the majority:
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Wood Pidgeon (do these count? Lets be honest they're just posh pigeons)
Blue Tit
Long Tailed Tit
I have this app, it’s great but I’m questioning the range as I can often hear birds I recognise easily it doesn’t pick up (a distant pheasant/crow/wood pigeon)
I had a “bullfinch” the other day my 1st “rarer” one.
It’s good because you can play back & learn, I have learned quite a few new normal ones too now.
I had a “bullfinch” the other day my 1st “rarer” one.
It’s good because you can play back & learn, I have learned quite a few new normal ones too now.
AndyAudi said:
I have this app, it’s great but I’m questioning the range as I can often hear birds I recognise easily it doesn’t pick up (a distant pheasant/crow/wood pigeon)
I had a “bullfinch” the other day my 1st “rarer” one.
It’s good because you can play back & learn, I have learned quite a few new normal ones too now.
I think it can struggle to pick up short calls like a phesent unless they're clear with low background noise; that's my experience anyway.I had a “bullfinch” the other day my 1st “rarer” one.
It’s good because you can play back & learn, I have learned quite a few new normal ones too now.
In the garden I see:
Daily or almost daily visitors
Robin
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Long Tail Tit
Wren
Fred & Ginger (Pigeons who seem to always be together)
Magpie
Jay
Blackbird
Irregular visitors
Dunnock
Thrush
Bull Finch
Gold Finch
Greater Spotted Woodpecker
Black Cap (The female can be a real cow around other birds)
Green Woodpecker (Once)
Nuthatch
Flying around / Local:
Crows
Red Kite (millions of them)
Peregrine Falcon
Owls
Kestrel
Daily or almost daily visitors
Robin
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Long Tail Tit
Wren
Fred & Ginger (Pigeons who seem to always be together)
Magpie
Jay
Blackbird
Irregular visitors
Dunnock
Thrush
Bull Finch
Gold Finch
Greater Spotted Woodpecker
Black Cap (The female can be a real cow around other birds)
Green Woodpecker (Once)
Nuthatch
Flying around / Local:
Crows
Red Kite (millions of them)
Peregrine Falcon
Owls
Kestrel
Edited by RustyMX5 on Friday 10th May 11:41
Nothing really out of the ordinary for London although we did have a pair of Green Woodpeckers out back a couple of years back, feeding on the ground.
We're on the flight path of a flock of parakeets which fly West each evening, and depending on the sun you can get a wave of iridescent green fly past the window. Also a few of them are usually in the trees a couple of roads away.
We're on the flight path of a flock of parakeets which fly West each evening, and depending on the sun you can get a wave of iridescent green fly past the window. Also a few of them are usually in the trees a couple of roads away.
In my garden and over the wall we have
A pair of breeding pheasants
A pair of breeding red legged partridge.
Fat pigeons
Curlews
2 barn owls
Lapwings, which I can hear but rarely see, they sound like car alarms
The odd buzzard
A regular woodpecker, they are much bigger up close than you'd expect
Why do you live in Cumbria? people say......
A pair of breeding pheasants
A pair of breeding red legged partridge.
Fat pigeons
Curlews
2 barn owls
Lapwings, which I can hear but rarely see, they sound like car alarms
The odd buzzard
A regular woodpecker, they are much bigger up close than you'd expect
Why do you live in Cumbria? people say......
Edited by The_Doc on Friday 10th May 11:49
And this afternoon just before I fire up the lawnmower,
a cuckoo in the woods, just cuckoo-ing away.
I've been in Milan for the week, and the busy city was exciting and dynamic and the food was awesome. But home is where the birds are.
It should be said that I live about 500m from RSB Geltsdale, so these spots are unfair and skewed.
But hooray for birdsong.
a cuckoo in the woods, just cuckoo-ing away.
I've been in Milan for the week, and the busy city was exciting and dynamic and the food was awesome. But home is where the birds are.
It should be said that I live about 500m from RSB Geltsdale, so these spots are unfair and skewed.
But hooray for birdsong.
ds wake you up...biggiles said:
The Merlin app is amazing.
It doesn't recognise (or chooses not to) some non-local birds e.g. guinea fowl or pheasant, perhaps because they come from Africa / China and aren't considered native.
I've had it pick up pheasents plenty times, just needs the bird to be close and do a few calls I thinkIt doesn't recognise (or chooses not to) some non-local birds e.g. guinea fowl or pheasant, perhaps because they come from Africa / China and aren't considered native.
TheBALDpuma said:
biggiles said:
The Merlin app is amazing.
It doesn't recognise (or chooses not to) some non-local birds e.g. guinea fowl or pheasant, perhaps because they come from Africa / China and aren't considered native.
I've had it pick up pheasents plenty times, just needs the bird to be close and do a few calls I thinkIt doesn't recognise (or chooses not to) some non-local birds e.g. guinea fowl or pheasant, perhaps because they come from Africa / China and aren't considered native.
Our best are the ravens which occasionally visit the sequoias across the road. Such a distinctive call that the app's not really needed, but I checked when I first heard them, just to make sure because I didn't realise we have any in Oxon. On red letter days they ride the mini updraft from the trees It's the LBJs in the hedges and bushes where it really helps, I find.
It's the LBJs in the hedges and bushes where it really helps, I find.Gassing Station | All Creatures Great & Small | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff