What's buzzing or flying near you 2025 ?

A family of baby blue tits has appeared in my garden now, and the young great tits and blackbirds are still around so it's pretty busy.

 

I gave up feeding the birds temporarily three weeks ago. The seed was attracting too many Jackdaws, Pigeons and Doves. Jackdaws are a real pest and they've stripped my heavily laden pear tree of its young fruit.

 

Lovely to have those youngsters @Escarpment .
It's magpies we're having problems with here @Sheal. They've chased the blue tits away from the nest box, and are a total PITA. They must have youngsters/eggs, because they're constantly screeching, and mobbing the jackdaws and crows which are plentiful around here, but don't cause any major problems. The woodies usually try [and fail] to nest in the conifer, but the magpies have 'done a Putin' and invaded....
That's a pity about your pears.

 

I don't mind Magpies @fairygirl, I'll do you a swap for my jackdaws. Did you know Magpies pair up for life?

 

A young Wood Pigeon being fed, taken through my kitchen window just 8ft away.

 

Noticed one of my log piles had been disturbed, I think its probably foxes, but they seem to have disturbed a bumble bees nest, the bees are rushing around now trying to sort the nest out.

 

The bees will hopefully be fine @pete. It's surprising how they can adapt. I had a nest under my shed last year, and unfortunately, I was rebuilding that, so it required a bit of ducking and diving on my part! They were getting really peed off with me, so they must have been glad when I finished, apart form the little space they needed to get in and out. Lovely to watch them though. I had to sort out a raised bed in my Dad's garden many years ago, and there was a bees' nest in it. I was quite upset about it as they didn't move on in that instance, and most of them died. Maybe you could create some cover for them?
The magpies are horrific just now @Sheal - I'd gladly send you them! We have a lot of mature pines nearby, and one was removed [completely unnecessarily] a couple of years ago. It was a pair of them, and was the home for magpies nesting. They were noisy, especially with the crows etc mobbing at nesting time, [understandably] but the removal meant they needed a new home, and unfortunately, they chose my conifer rather than going another 100 feet to the house across the road which has several mature pines which would have been ideal! They didn't manage a successful nest last year, but they have done now, and they're chasing everything that comes anywhere near the tree. We have lots of corvids of all sorts, but they don't cause any problems. Plenty of habitat nearby, so they don't tend to be a nuisance. Very rare for them to come into the garden at all.
Lovely pix of the woodies. I do like them, and up until last year, they were doing their usual flapping around to try and nest in the conifer [without success!] but I have a new 'resident' one who comes in for his breakfast/lunch/dinner and at various points in between. Carrying on the Only Fools theme, he's named Rodney [we had a Dave in the past] and so called because he is a bit of a plonker....

 

Seen on the cctv the Tawny Owl is back he/she use the front light as a perch

 

At breeding time I think the corvids become over noisy @fairygirl. They certainly are here. Then there's the constant cooing of all the Wood pigeons, there's a lot of those too. I've not fed the garden birds for a month hoping some of these big greedy birds will disappear when their young are off hand.

Oh, I have a tale that would make you laugh about Only Fools and Horses but I can't put it on open forum unfortunately. PM me if you can't resist.

 

I might take you up on that re Only Fools @Sheal !
I forgot to say that I hadn't known about the magpies mating for life. I know Swans do, but I'm not sure just how many other birds might also do that. It reminded me of the item in our news a few days ago about the Peregrine falcon chicks too. The perfect names for a couple of tough Glaswegian birds
Peregrine falcon chicks hatch on Glasgow University tower

I saw a couple of crows in the next door garden a few minutes ago - checking out her [non existent] grass for some breakfast. They must have heard me saying they don't come in gardens much! Magpie was faffing around nearby as well. I also saw one of my 'fairly resident' woodies hounding a magpie - I think it may be one of the offspring from the nest.
It doesn't help that the idiot and his wife, who live across the back from me, like to throw bread out on the roofs of his collection of outbuildings. The noise from that is dreadful, especially as we now seem to have gulls happily living in the area. We're nowhere near the sea, or that sort of water source. Sigh....

 

I must admit that one of the joys of moving to live on the coast is the (almost) constant presence of gulls. Have always loved them! They are such good parents too and extremely attentive. Watching them fly en masse back to wherever they roost is a highlight of the evening.

 

I don't look at this thread because I have a bird phobia but I don't mind them if they are high up in the sky ...

We get lots of Red Kites around here, and I often see them being dive-bombed by crows. It's usually one crow but today I saw one getting dive-bombed by four crows.
The Kites never have a go at the crows, they just duck out of the way, but they are bigger than the crows so should be able to fend them off but they never do.

The four crows followed the Kite for a long time, attacking it all the while, but three of them got fed up and left after a bit.
However one of them kept on attacking the Kite and then they flew out of sight. I don't know why the Kites don't give the crows what for, they could, they are bigger, but they never do.
It's strange why the crows attack the Kites, it isn't as if they are stealing their food or anything, so I don't know why they do it.

 

I would imagine there's more birds than we think that pair for life @fairygirl.

Thanks for the article on the Peregrines. They're not the prettiest of chicks but it's good to see them doing well. Pigeons can be quite nasty. There's quite a lot here and they often chase off other birds, especially if they want to dominate the bird bath in my garden.

 

Our crows follow and pester the buzzard here. They try to peck at its tail as they fly overhead. They look so small compared to the buzzard. Eventually the buzzard moves further away, back to its own patch. I think the crows are guarding their territory.