# Birding Time, Your local and international patch… **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [October 17, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891 "2020-10-17T15:45:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 113
**Author:** ![catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/catswhiskers/32/906_2.png) [@catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/catswhiskers)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2318 "2026-01-25T19:13:03Z")
OK, I did it, one hour late morning, one great tit, one dunnock, one starling and I could hear, but not see a robin… ---
**Author:** ![PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/pw42/32/2249_2.png) [@PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/PW42)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 7:01am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2319 "2026-01-26T07:01:08Z")
How depressing for you. I wonder where they have gone. I had a reasonable hour although a number of regulars decided not to make an appearance until the next day. ---
**Author:** ![northpole](https://community.naimaudio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dfb087/32.png) [@northpole](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/northpole)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2320 "2026-01-26T13:07:35Z")
I had an incredible turn out - too many for this dim wit to accurately count. The one species missing was the dunnock which has been a regular visitor up until a week or two ago. No idea why they have stopped visits! Peter ---
**Author:** ![catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/catswhiskers/32/906_2.png) [@catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/catswhiskers)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2321 "2026-01-26T15:01:06Z")
I might go for frustrating. The depressing thing is the local school and many neighbours cutting down the ancient hedgerow the forms our boundary. This morning I refilled the feeders just after 9am. Within 15 minutes the garden was full of starlings too many to count. By 10:30, they had gone, in the time it took me to get a hot drink there was a wren, a dunnock, two pied wagtails and a tree creeper. The wagtails seem to venture out of the local shopping centre every couple of months, there are two lakes and a brook less than a mile away. The last time I saw a tree creeper was possibly six months ago. Speaking to a neighbour, they pointed out that in the last couple of months the jackdaws that live on their side of the road have disappeared. Strange times. ---
**Author:** ![Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/mike-b/32/295344_2.png) [@Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Mike-B)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2322 "2026-01-26T16:05:22Z")
Me too had a depressing ‘Birdwatch’, but not surprised as the local garden bird population has really gone down over the last months ( I posted about this a while back ) I had doubts about submitting the Birdwatch stats as it’s not representative of my garden. To add to the plight of the birds, last friday I had tree fellas in to remove a 4m section of very old longtime dead Ivy covered Hawthorn. The Ivy was 5 star luxury high rise nesting for them all ….. and the Ivy seeds kept the entire neighbourhood pigeons fed. Like I said .. depressing ---
**Author:** ![suzywong](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/suzywong/32/705_2.png) [@suzywong](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/suzywong)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2323 "2026-01-26T20:22:00Z")
A reasonable BGBW last weekend, but not outstanding - just most of the “usual suspects”. The “house sparrow air force” has been back in numbers for the last month - a good dozen turn up regularly in late mornings, but we had only five during the survey. ---
**Author:** ![catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/catswhiskers/32/906_2.png) [@catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/catswhiskers)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2324 "2026-02-03T22:52:43Z")
I’ve managed to get a picture of the “mystery” bird. In fact, yesterday there were three. All the same, no clear markings. Despite that, I am now reasonably sure they are goldcrests. If so, it’s a first, in the past I might have seen one a year! ![m bird](https://d2ikyu8xyuibjx.cloudfront.net/original/4X/9/1/3/913582e1634a5c39993afc19de8f7ca3fb2a693a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Lorro1](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/lorro1/32/29979_2.png) [@Lorro1](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Lorro1)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2325 "2026-02-03T22:55:23Z")
Chiff chaff ? ---
**Author:** ![Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/mike-b/32/295344_2.png) [@Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Mike-B)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 11:25pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2326 "2026-02-03T23:25:03Z")
Definitely not a goldcrest. Looks like a chiff-chaff. Often overwintering and habituate woodlands and gardens. Winter plumage tends to loose the summertime olive and eye stripe markings and turn more rust/grey. ---
**Author:** ![catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/catswhiskers/32/906_2.png) [@catswhiskers](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/catswhiskers)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 12:30am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2327 "2026-02-04T00:30:12Z")
Thanks, yes, chiff chaff fits. Didn’t come up in any of the bird finders, been here 48 years and never seen one. ---
**Author:** ![Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/mike-b/32/295344_2.png) [@Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Mike-B)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2328 "2026-02-04T12:51:47Z")
My house is part surrounded by rough open shrub-land and great chiff-chaff country. During the spring/summer I frequently hear two or three or sometimes more calling from different points, hearing is one thing, spotting is something else. ---
**Author:** ![IanF](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/ianf/32/1913_2.png) [@IanF](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/IanF)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2329 "2026-02-08T17:07:00Z")
Male Bullfinch, enjoying a late afternoon snack. ![Mod-1083](https://d2ikyu8xyuibjx.cloudfront.net/original/4X/7/b/2/7b2bb17fe6ca3662fb4036907afa62de2c649465.jpeg) Cheers, Ian ---
**Author:** ![PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/pw42/32/2249_2.png) [@PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/PW42)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 7:42am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2330 "2026-02-17T07:42:05Z")
Any ideas what this is? Its taken up residence in the village. Suspect it belongs to a local falconer. Very distinctive yellow face. ![WhatsApp Image 2026-02-17 at 07.24.03](https://d2ikyu8xyuibjx.cloudfront.net/original/4X/6/5/2/6525c07ad960fb8c0c0f73aca1dae95112ab216c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/mike-b/32/295344_2.png) [@Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Mike-B)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2331 "2026-02-17T08:56:43Z")
Suspect it’s a juvenile peregrine falcon. Key ID pointers …. vertically streaked underparts, contrasting with the horizontal barring of adults, a dark brown back, pale cream-buff breast and dark eyes. ---
**Author:** ![PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/pw42/32/2249_2.png) [@PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/PW42)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 9:22am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2332 "2026-02-17T09:22:13Z")
Thanks Mike. It was the striking yellow face that made me think it was something even more exotic but Peregrine is exotic enough 😁 . Apparently it doesn’t belong to our local falconer after all. But I think he is coming out to capture it. ---
**Author:** ![Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/mike-b/32/295344_2.png) [@Mike-B](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Mike-B)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 9:26am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2333 "2026-02-17T09:26:55Z")
The local falconer coming to attempt a rescue is great news, they will confirm what it is. Keep us updated please. I suspect it’s a captive bred bird whatever, it’s a juvenile for sure but it’s way outside any wild bird breeding season. Wild birds only start egg laying in March and early April. ---
**Author:** ![PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/pw42/32/2249_2.png) [@PW42](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/PW42)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 9:49am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2334 "2026-02-17T09:49:34Z")
Will definitely update when we know more. I am sure you are right that it is captive bred as it is very tame and not wary of humans at all. ---
**Author:** ![bruss](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/bruss/32/139739_2.png) [@bruss](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/bruss)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2335 "2026-02-18T17:00:12Z")
No pictures ( I didn’t have the phone with me) but 30 minutes ago while walking Harvey, the first harbingers of spring flew over making their usual racket. About 2-300 gru gru ( common crane). Many more to come but it’s a good sign that the weather is warming. ---
**Author:** ![IanF](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/ianf/32/1913_2.png) [@IanF](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/IanF)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2336 "2026-02-18T19:04:54Z")
I think it’s a Kestrel with its face feathers missing! The colouring is right for a female Kestrel though. Peregrines are considerably darker. Cheers, Ian ---
**Author:** ![suzywong](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/suzywong/32/705_2.png) [@suzywong](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/suzywong)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891/2337 "2026-02-18T20:09:09Z")
My first thoughts also were Kestrel, so I ran the picture through Goggle Images, and it came up with….. …… female common Kestrel (_Falco tinnunculus_). Beautiful plumage!. Odd about the face though. I hope that it’s OK. And @PW42, please do let us know if you get any more info. [Previous page](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891.md?page=112) [Next page](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/birding-time-your-local-and-international-patch/11891.md?page=114)