Deeside Sparrow
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Concerned about biodiversity loss & climate change. Interests: avifauna, plantlife, books, art galleries, museums 🐦🌾📚🖼🎨🏛
Three jackdaws perched on a TV aerial - and then another wave of arriving jackdaws flying over dispersing from their overnight roost - all under grey layer cloud. A five day jackdaw FBOMD streak up to today!
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Three jackdaws perched on a TV aerial - and then another wave of arriving jackdaws flying over dispersing from their overnight roost - all under grey layer cloud. A five day jackdaw FBOMD streak up to today!
Gosh, that's really determined and brave on the part of any mockingbird (including if it was His Excellency!) given how "well-armed" and capable of aggression a Cooper's hawk is by way of its evolution! 😲
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Gosh, that's really determined and brave on the part of any mockingbird (including if it was His Excellency!) given how "well-armed" and capable of aggression a Cooper's hawk is by way of its evolution! 😲
That research finding is so interesting! I think that the diurnal regular movements by birds are fascinating. It's good to learn about such detailed ornthological study explaining what the gulls are looking for and the distance they fly for a food source they find reliable.
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
That research finding is so interesting! I think that the diurnal regular movements by birds are fascinating. It's good to learn about such detailed ornthological study explaining what the gulls are looking for and the distance they fly for a food source they find reliable.
A jackdaw stood by a chimney pot watching and waiting was FBOMD. The lone bird seen whilst looking out on the darkish, gloomy wet street. More life and liveliness then approached as tchaks accompanied more jackdaws dispersing from their roost.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A jackdaw stood by a chimney pot watching and waiting was FBOMD. The lone bird seen whilst looking out on the darkish, gloomy wet street. More life and liveliness then approached as tchaks accompanied more jackdaws dispersing from their roost.
Yes, that's exactly the reason for their inland commute in the mornings. 😃 I think one conurbation they go to is Wrexham. I saw a raptor there once getting mobbed simultaneously by a hundred or more gulls! "Mobbings"/driving off of buzzards hereabouts are carried out by just a few brave corvids. 😯
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Yes, that's exactly the reason for their inland commute in the mornings. 😃 I think one conurbation they go to is Wrexham. I saw a raptor there once getting mobbed simultaneously by a hundred or more gulls! "Mobbings"/driving off of buzzards hereabouts are carried out by just a few brave corvids. 😯
FBOMD was a rooftop sentry jackdaw. Just after dawn, in all, there were four rooftops opposite with a solitary jackdaw standing on a brick stack or on the ridge.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
FBOMD was a rooftop sentry jackdaw. Just after dawn, in all, there were four rooftops opposite with a solitary jackdaw standing on a brick stack or on the ridge.
I like 'coasting up high'. It paints a picture to imagine. Moreover, reading up about the Turkey vulture has to now be on my 'to do' list - lest I remain in ignorance about the bird next time the species is FBOYD.
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I like 'coasting up high'. It paints a picture to imagine. Moreover, reading up about the Turkey vulture has to now be on my 'to do' list - lest I remain in ignorance about the bird next time the species is FBOYD.
I know that feeling ... when you're envisaging an ideal first bird scenario - particularly during limited daylight hours in the winter and you're awake before the birds - but some bird just HAS to be FBOYD! 🐦🥇🤣 Recently for me this has been the jackdaws who I now know a lot better. 🙂
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I know that feeling ... when you're envisaging an ideal first bird scenario - particularly during limited daylight hours in the winter and you're awake before the birds - but some bird just HAS to be FBOYD! 🐦🥇🤣 Recently for me this has been the jackdaws who I now know a lot better. 🙂
Ah, the morning inland commuting gull! I see a lot of them early during daylight for most of the year. 🙂
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Ah, the morning inland commuting gull! I see a lot of them early during daylight for most of the year. 🙂
Rooks have mixed it up for you! Nice one by the rooks. That sounds like an impressive aggregation of rook hang-outs. 😃
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Rooks have mixed it up for you! Nice one by the rooks. That sounds like an impressive aggregation of rook hang-outs. 😃
I thought, with the volume of audible chirruping, I might glimpse a house sparrow but the FBOMD was actually a rooftop jackdaw. Then it was three jackdaws who behaved on Remembrance Sunday in an exemplary, dignified manner sharing an aerial with a wood pigeon.
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I thought, with the volume of audible chirruping, I might glimpse a house sparrow but the FBOMD was actually a rooftop jackdaw. Then it was three jackdaws who behaved on Remembrance Sunday in an exemplary, dignified manner sharing an aerial with a wood pigeon.
8 jackdaws, making both tchak & ky-ow calls, were FBsOMD. 6 of whom were perched on horizontal aerials, 2 stood on a chimney stack beneath. Was this a sub-committee of their monthly planning council? Maybe reviewing m.t.d. November FBOMD performance? 🖤🩶🤣
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
8 jackdaws, making both tchak & ky-ow calls, were FBsOMD. 6 of whom were perched on horizontal aerials, 2 stood on a chimney stack beneath. Was this a sub-committee of their monthly planning council? Maybe reviewing m.t.d. November FBOMD performance? 🖤🩶🤣
Interesting @tycjanc.bsky.social as I heard vigorous chirruping from my neighbouring house sparrows around 7.10 am - out of sight deep in the privet hedge. The sheer intensity of their chirrups was analogous to a chiffchaff singing in spring!
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Interesting @tycjanc.bsky.social as I heard vigorous chirruping from my neighbouring house sparrows around 7.10 am - out of sight deep in the privet hedge. The sheer intensity of their chirrups was analogous to a chiffchaff singing in spring!
Around dawn I saw a distant corvid flying towards north away from the woodland in half dark, half light. I could hear the early rising carrion crow calls. So I am guessing, FBOMD a crow; not impossible, but less likely, a rook.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Around dawn I saw a distant corvid flying towards north away from the woodland in half dark, half light. I could hear the early rising carrion crow calls. So I am guessing, FBOMD a crow; not impossible, but less likely, a rook.
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I do hope 🤞 the other magpies did appear to relieve your apprehensions!
I do hope 🤞 the other magpies did appear to relieve your apprehensions!
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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I do hope 🤞 the other magpies did appear to relieve your apprehensions!
I do hope 🤞 the other magpies did appear to relieve your apprehensions!
Interested to read your observation "the now Autumn hawthorn". The hedging in my garden seems to have changed towards its winter condition quickly in the last week or so, esp. hawthorn. The beech leaves mostly remained green all October. The first area that turned had been 1st to go copper to green!
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Interested to read your observation "the now Autumn hawthorn". The hedging in my garden seems to have changed towards its winter condition quickly in the last week or so, esp. hawthorn. The beech leaves mostly remained green all October. The first area that turned had been 1st to go copper to green!
FBsOMD were the loving couple of jackdaws 💘 - seen previously early on the mornings of 29 & 30 October - again stood in near proximity to each other on their favourite chimney pot.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
FBsOMD were the loving couple of jackdaws 💘 - seen previously early on the mornings of 29 & 30 October - again stood in near proximity to each other on their favourite chimney pot.
A really welcome FBOMD sighting of female and male house sparrow on the top of the privet. I'd heard lots of chirruping waking up. 😄 I didn't think I'd started scanning the hedge soon enough to have the chance to spot those responsible! 🎵😆
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
A really welcome FBOMD sighting of female and male house sparrow on the top of the privet. I'd heard lots of chirruping waking up. 😄 I didn't think I'd started scanning the hedge soon enough to have the chance to spot those responsible! 🎵😆
Hopefully, you will be cheered up @tycjanc.bsky.social by a summertime image of the willow tree in our civic square 🌳❤️😃. Image captured shortly 'before' this tree was on the receiving end of tree surgeon attention in August 2025! 😐
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hopefully, you will be cheered up @tycjanc.bsky.social by a summertime image of the willow tree in our civic square 🌳❤️😃. Image captured shortly 'before' this tree was on the receiving end of tree surgeon attention in August 2025! 😐
There's some gulls varying the FBsOYD during your trip! Over here, we've had some windy days as well. The herring and black-headed gulls I see have been honing their wingbeat-less aerial manoeuvring techniques in top half of the Beaufort Scale conditions. 🌬😄
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
There's some gulls varying the FBsOYD during your trip! Over here, we've had some windy days as well. The herring and black-headed gulls I see have been honing their wingbeat-less aerial manoeuvring techniques in top half of the Beaufort Scale conditions. 🌬😄
Ha ha 👀 I did! And I imagine, i.r.l., the presence of the squirrel enhancing this fall scene was a lot more noticeable. 😄
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ha ha 👀 I did! And I imagine, i.r.l., the presence of the squirrel enhancing this fall scene was a lot more noticeable. 😄
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Really beautiful, seasonal botanical studies and such an attractive path lit by the low angle sun! Also I like the detail of the leaping squirrel caught by 'the shutter' half brightly illuminated and half in shadow as it darts over the umbra from the fence. 😄
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Really beautiful, seasonal botanical studies and such an attractive path lit by the low angle sun! Also I like the detail of the leaping squirrel caught by 'the shutter' half brightly illuminated and half in shadow as it darts over the umbra from the fence. 😄