Favourite Bird to watch?

[ducati]

Mine is the Black Guillemot. Watched them for hours in Wick Harbour swimming around underwater-fascinating. :Razz

[Kenn]

Got to be Puffins but run a close second by Gannets fishing.

[kas]

Could not possibly choose. I change my mind every five minutes.

[dafi]

Of all the terns...Little tern

[ducati]

Could not possibly choose. I change my mind every five minutes.

Yes me too now I think about it. :D

[dafi]

How about your favorite raptor of all raptors then ducati?

[NickInTheNorth]

Could not possibly choose. I change my mind every five minutes.

I'm with you on that one!

My only totally honest answer is the one I'm watching!

On Sunday driving back to Thurso from Wick my favourites were a flock of starlings which had clearly just been frightened off the ground by a raptor flying overhead, the raptor (I think it was a buzzard, but as I was driving I didn't really look that closely) was then being mobbed by several members of the crow family (again I didn't look that closely).

What I did watch in amazement was the starlings as they did that amazing formation flying thing, split into 2 separate flocks while still looking totally magical, and then settled back to feed, total time in the air I would say about a minute, but what a minute! (I would guess something in the region of 10000+ birds).

Continuing to drive along and about 4 minutes later I said to my daughter, I'm just going to turn round, quick U-turn in the end of road to Lyth, back about 500 yards and park on the verge - something in the region of 50 whooper swans in a field, watched them for about 5 minutes, back in the car, then see a skein of geese, they are flying fairly randomly this way and that, probably about a 100 birds in all, watch them flying for a minute of so, then drive off. Turning round in the next convenient spot and low and behold, those geese are starting to circle and get lower, so stop the car - out again, walk just into the rather muddy field so we can just see over the slight rise in the field, and there they are all landing, honking away, about 5 minutes and a hundred greylags later, back in the car and head for home...

All of those were my total favourites, don't know what it will be next :D

[ducati]

How about your favorite raptor of all raptors then ducati?

Thats easy-Golden Eagle no, White Tailed Sea Eagle no, Osprey no..Arrgh[lol]