It is just so useful and has also made me realise that when I've been seeing a small brown bird and thinking 'sparrow', sometimes that's right and sometimes it is something a bit more exotic!
It seems like everything has suddenly burst into bloom this week - all the flowering trees and I love watching the trees gain their color - some peaches and yellows deepening into various shades of green. I love watching the changes at this time of year here in New England. I don't know much about birds but I love listening to the dawn chorus in the mornings.
I definitely agree with foraging Few Flowered Leek instead of Ramsons!
Spring is wonderful up here in Edinburgh, too many wonders to list, but highlights include more Lesser celandines than I've ever seen before, and watching Meadow Pipits perform their display flights while a lazy Skylark sang from a fence post, and no I hadn't got the two species confused!
I've had the same thing just this week, Juliet, with a skylark on a hawthorn bush, whilst the meadow pipits were flitting about! A very odd reversal, I agree!
I am in the US so I love reading about the different plant and bird species that you have in the UK. The grasshopper warbler sounds amazing!
I live in Wisconsin so we can still have bouts of cold weather in April including snow. In our flower gardens, the tulip and daffodil are in bloom and the crab apple tree leaves are budding. I have anemone that has just started to flower. The migrating sandhill cranes returned in March as well as the American Robins. We should expect to see Baltimore Orioles and hummingbirds within the next two weeks. Those are the ones I look forward to the most as the Orioles are only here for a couple weeks.
Hi Renee - I've just uploaded the sound recording I made through the Merlin Bird app of the Grasshopper Warbler to the section on the bird so that you can hear just how incredibly like a grasshopper it sounds!
Wisconsin sounds amazing - it isn't actually unusual for us to have snow here in April, although we've not had any this year and if anything it has been unseasonably mild and dry. I'd love to see a hummingbird in real life - I've only ever seen them in a zoo.
I've also been using the Merlin app loads this month! Mostly to double check what(who) I already recognise but doubt I know 😅
Lovely post Ali, thankyou!
It is just so useful and has also made me realise that when I've been seeing a small brown bird and thinking 'sparrow', sometimes that's right and sometimes it is something a bit more exotic!
It seems like everything has suddenly burst into bloom this week - all the flowering trees and I love watching the trees gain their color - some peaches and yellows deepening into various shades of green. I love watching the changes at this time of year here in New England. I don't know much about birds but I love listening to the dawn chorus in the mornings.
Yes - colour can be really noticeable in Spring as well as Autumn/Fall, can't it?
I definitely agree with foraging Few Flowered Leek instead of Ramsons!
Spring is wonderful up here in Edinburgh, too many wonders to list, but highlights include more Lesser celandines than I've ever seen before, and watching Meadow Pipits perform their display flights while a lazy Skylark sang from a fence post, and no I hadn't got the two species confused!
I've had the same thing just this week, Juliet, with a skylark on a hawthorn bush, whilst the meadow pipits were flitting about! A very odd reversal, I agree!
I am in the US so I love reading about the different plant and bird species that you have in the UK. The grasshopper warbler sounds amazing!
I live in Wisconsin so we can still have bouts of cold weather in April including snow. In our flower gardens, the tulip and daffodil are in bloom and the crab apple tree leaves are budding. I have anemone that has just started to flower. The migrating sandhill cranes returned in March as well as the American Robins. We should expect to see Baltimore Orioles and hummingbirds within the next two weeks. Those are the ones I look forward to the most as the Orioles are only here for a couple weeks.
Hi Renee - I've just uploaded the sound recording I made through the Merlin Bird app of the Grasshopper Warbler to the section on the bird so that you can hear just how incredibly like a grasshopper it sounds!
Wisconsin sounds amazing - it isn't actually unusual for us to have snow here in April, although we've not had any this year and if anything it has been unseasonably mild and dry. I'd love to see a hummingbird in real life - I've only ever seen them in a zoo.