Wildlife photos please

[DannyK]

Lesley81, any chance in getting your photobucket account unlocked please?

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday this blackbird was in my garden but it doesn’t have a yellow beak & it looks like a male because it’s black,maybe it’s from a colder country & it’s come over here? The male English blackbird here chases the starlings away,this blackbird was sat there for over ten minutes eating & the starlings were going right up to him & he didn’t mind them at all

[SelkirkAlex]

Yesterday this blackbird was in my garden but it doesn’t have a yellow beak & it looks like a male because it’s black,maybe it’s from a colder country & it’s come over here?

It is more likely just age, male blackbirds often have brown/black bills in their first year, only going yellow later, I have read different explanations, mostly to do with sexual maturity for breeding, females picking yellow to breed with. Interestingly diet can play a role between yellow and orange bills, a high diet of things like rowan berries can make a yellow bill bright orange.

[Jungle Jane]

Thanks Alex it’ll be nice if it is a youngster I’ve seen both parents,although not on the same day. I thought if it was theirs they’d all hang around together like a family outing

[4Shoes]

Thanks Alex it’ll be nice if it is a youngster I’ve seen both parents,although not on the same day. I thought if it was theirs they’d all hang around together like a family outing

i'd say more like a family wedding

[muck lover]

Spot the bee



This is from the second week in March last year. I doubt if we will have blossoms like that this year at that time.

[SelkirkAlex]

visitor in the snow, the meal worms ran out and he kept giving me the evil eye until I refilled them, about 18 inches of snow so far

[Martin H]

Sorry about the picture quality, but I've not seen these guys in my garden before today. They are taking a great interest in the pyracantha berries. My best guess from my bird book is that they are fieldfares. Can anyone confirm / correct?

[SelkirkAlex]

yep fieldfare, the grey hood and the eye markings are the give away

[Greenleaves]

Not the greatest of pictures but the first red squirrel I have seen in the wild

[Scarlet]

Sorry about the picture quality, but I've not seen these guys in my garden before today. They are taking a great interest in the pyracantha berries. My best guess from my bird book is that they are fieldfares. Can anyone confirm / correct?
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Yes they are! We have some Redwings in the garden today that are of the same family. We don’t see them that often.


#...and the last time we had them, I think I posted on here - they stripped the berries off my two huge pyracanthas!

[DannyK]

Parakeets in snow

Rather incongruous. There are six. I've seen seen ten but they never wait for the camera.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/103667.../shares/654mwY

[Jimny14]

Just seen this chap, never seen one in our garden before today, hopefully they'll stick around.

[SelkirkAlex]

most birds are territorial to varying degrees some flock together others remain pretty solitary, obviously the weather and available food play havoc with that, blackbirds typically have a territory of up to an acre.

at one point this morning I had 11 blackbirds in my tiny but well fed front garden, not to mention a mistle thrush, several crows and robins and chaffinches and nuthatches and countless assorted tits.

hitchcock would have been proud.

[jackarmy]

Nice Burnie , i love it when a few Red Kites pass by here in the spring, one of those would blow me away