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[CLKD]

I could hear the Greater Spotted calling this morning.     

[Taz2]

I can't imagine seeing a  Goshawk in the garden - they are almost as big as buzzards aren't they? You are very lucky - less than 400 pairs in the UK now I believe. We have a particularly industrious female sparrowhawk visiting every day at the minute - big but not as big as the Goshawk. I think you can report sightings of them Wrensong.

Taz x

[CLKD]

Oh well done!  They are so flighty 

[CLKD]

I hope that you mean 'photo 

[CLKD]

Phew    I looked for the woodpecker here earlier, all was quiet - not a bird on the place 

[Wrensong]

Gosh Taz - I had no idea Goshawks were so rare & we saw one twice  !  Yes - a very big bird with lovely markings - at first sight I thought with the help of the bird book that it was a Sparrowhawk, but our bird was far bigger & as you say about buzzard size.  Thanks so much for that info.

[Hurdity]

Wow Goshawks Wrensong! - Not sure I've ever seen one that I can remember (although my husband assures me I have!). Yes we get sparrowhawks almost daily after the sparrows voraciously eating all the bird seed in enormous numbers! Also the Greater Spotted Woodpeckers still coming almost daily - we have had two at once - and I think was mum and baby - but they only go for the peanuts ( in only one of the feeders).

We have little owls sometimes  (or rather - one!) - one used to sit in a tree not from the village and used to just sit and stare at me as I went for a walk around the lanes

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

Mummy blackbird picking up live meal worms  - Daddy not far behind .......

[Hurdity]

Sparrows seem to have had a second brood - babies doing the wing fluttering thing by the feeders today and having bits of peanut popped into their mouths by mum

Hurdity x

[Ju Ju]

We have a baby jay visiting our garden regularly with his mum and Dad. Noisy and very messy when taking a bath in the bird bath. Reminds me of my grandson!

We have had a young fox wandering through the garden when it's dark. Never seen foxes in the garden before. Been here 30+ years. No chickens nearby at least.

[CLKD]

Will check our night camera later to see what's been through ......

[Wrensong]

Our first sunny late afternoon walk for what feels like weeks.  All along the riverbank pink Himalayan Balsam in full bloom, its scent drifting across the water like steam from bathwater milky with cheap orchid soap of our teenage years.  Tiny blue butterflies, too pretty to name common, flitting in and out of the blond grasses, now dying back to knee-high in the meadow on our way home.  Blue in the sky where only cloud was for many days, in fifty shades of grey!

[Taz2]

That sounds great apart from the Himalayan Balsam - so much time and effort being put in here to eradicate it in a three year programme even though it looks pretty. We've had our first dry day for three days too.

Taz x 

[Wrensong]

Yes Taz, the Balsam's a menace.  I think we have those invasive American Signal crayfish here in the river too.

[CLKD]

You can catch and eat the crayfish 

Balsam is here to stay but at least insects, bees etc. benefit  . 

Been fishing today.