What have you seen

Early morning sight of Venus and the crescent moon in the east, quite spectacular thanks to a much brighter sky today.

Rspb bird watch this weekend. We've got a lot of birds around just now so hopefully a good list to send in.

Great photo BM we also have the Sparrowhawk around has been chasing the blue tits around the large shrub by the door for a couple of days, 2 years ago the hawk was a young one and could get through the shrub but now bigger and struggles with the mesh of small branches and will again be out and about around the feeders also have still seen the young Goshawk flying about after someones local doves/pigeons and yet there are hundreds of the common wood pigeons this year it even had a go with the local Kestrel but no success but did get chased with about 6 Magpies and 2 Carrion Crows interesting to watch.

Thick fog and frost again today so not much about except on the feeders.

Great action picture BM and interesting info re the pecking order of the feeder visitors.

I have a five different feeders that attract many garden birds and I find that the top of the “pecking order” (pardon the pun) is the woodpecker, followed by the nuthatch, then the starling, finches and great tits, further down are the long tailed, blue, and coal tits, although the blue tits can be very territorial. We do get many other birds but these are the feeder visitors.

The sparrow hawk does pay a visit now and again but thankfully is not often successful; a couple of local cats are the bigger danger.

Similar here with the pecking order on the feeders. The nuthatch scares all of the tits off the peanuts. The magpie takes precedence over the jays on the bird table. The long tailed tits come in a group and go mostly for the suet blocks. The four! cats next door + the squirrel need constant watching. 

Envious of the bird varieties you guys are getting.

Unfortunately the Sparrowhawk is wrecking the starling murmurations, they appear to be moving the roost, as the hawk is waiting each night for them now, down to less than 50 tonight.

Grand photo, BM!

There is a fully black rabbit, in among a few normal coloured ones, in the field behind our site. We've not seen one of those for a while. When out this afternoon on the fields down to the Ribble I saw 4 Grey Herons all together, wonder if there is a Herronry in the area.

near Godrevy last week

What type of fish are they ? do you know Viatorem. Nothing to compare the size to, but doubt if they are Mackerel this time of the year.

If you can zoom in you will see that they are Grey Seals ADP.

Yep, there's always hundreds of them around there.

Moulesy posted a similar pic in the What are you up to thread.