Lots of new birds I've seen this year

Two weekends ago, me and Dad were up early to go and explore a new deer wood. As we were about to leave, we looked out the window at the bird table, and saw this bird !

Because it has a red cap at the front it looks like a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. But because the underside of the tail is red, that mean's it's a Great Spotted Woodpecker. The red cap at the front (rather than the back) is because it's a juvenile.

Here are some more new birds I have seen.

↑ I saw this duck with some mallards at the lakes at the university. I am pretty sure this is a female goosander but it might be a female red-breasted merganser.

↑ Dad saw this when we were out for a walk along one of the rivers in my village. It kept twitching its tail and didn't stay still for long. It is a juvenile grey wagtail.

↑ Mum, dad, my baby brother and me were walking back from the goose lakes a few weeks ago when dad spotted this duck. It kept disappearing below the surface which made it difficult to take a picture of. It had amazing feathers on its head:

↑ Dad guessed it was a kind of grebe, and when we looked it up we saw it was a great crested grebe.

↑ There have been tons of these around my village since spring. It is a swallow.



↑ This bird was singing at the very top of a pine tree one morning in a deer forest. It is a mistle thrush.



↑ This is a reed bunting. It was flying around a heather moor on mountains near my house.



↑ I saw this bird in May on the same moor. It is a wheatear.

↑ This one was tricky to identify but I think it is a female whinchat. It was on a fencepost near a stream near Cat Skull Wood.

↑ I have seen lapwings a lot in fields. In April and May the males do amazing displays to try and attract females.




↑ I have seen a treecreeper before, and this one was in the Pheasant Woods. They eat insects that live in tree bark.




↑ Dad only saw this bird once, in January, in the Secret Lake wood. It is a goldcrest.



↑ This is a pied wagtail, which are quite common. This one was on my drive. I've seen them a few times in cities.



↑ I am proud of seeing this bird and it is the favourite one I've seen this year. This type of bird has a special kind of beak where the tips of the beak cross over. This is so it can get the seeds out of pine cones. It might be a Scottish crossbill but I think the dirty bit on its face makes it a Common Crossbill.


Dad and I were exploring a new roe deer wood which was on a steep hill. At the highest part of the wood we spotted it and Dad managed to get a picture of it before it flew off !

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