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My daughter just back from lots of walking in Madeira and absolutely loved it.

The magpie family, a currawong and the red wattlebird all in attendance in the kitchen garden. Johnny’s out there with crusts and bacon scraps currying favour with all and sundry🥴 #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A small flock of thornbills flitting and dancing and easily visible around the naked boughs of a large tree on the side of the road. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They’ve made my posts occasionally but only when I’m out early, usually in our local shopping street. I don’t see them around home.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welcome Swallows, 2 of them zigzagging along the railway underpass as I ran for the train. 3rd bird was also a W swallow, observed from the massive window in the waiting room on the 13th floor. Should I be looking up the symbolism of 3 swallows in a row 🥴 #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, I tried that a couple of times, even in the rain the beauty was overwhelming.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Crimson rosellas, lots of them flying around the garden then over the road to the tall gums. Two red wattlebirds much closer to the house enjoying the abundance of blossom. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I used the 555 a bit when I was staying in Ambleside. Great service and much better than driving my hired car around the country roads 😅

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First bird of my day: robins singing to each other over the gardens in golden autumn light. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A pair of crimson rosellas flying through the garden, feathers nicely coordinating with the bluebells and crimson azaleas. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A cockatoo sheltering under the porch as I came out of my favourite green grocers this morning. Still plenty of rain plus an earth tremor last night which I managed to sleep through. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rotten weather here, cockatoos are the only birds out and about with not a care in the world. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maggie was back this morning claiming first bird position. She has been ignoring me since I ‘abandoned’ her to go on holiday, and pretended not to know me when I saw her in next door’s garden 😄 #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aren’t they amazing - not just crows but any bird riding with the wind.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How much I would love to have a normal night's sleep again, instead of staring at the ceiling and thinking about how russia struck a school today during the day, and an animal shelter at night, where poor dogs and cats had no chance of escaping their cages. How a private house in Kyiv is

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A pied currawong, calling out as it swooped low through the garden this morning. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come on all your lefties liberals a disabled wheelchair user who’s so unwell she haven’t travelled more than 30 miles away from home in 13 years raising money for her local food bank. Shares please. Thank you. That’s if this site isn’t having a crash 🤣.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A glorious spring morning and as I took the compost out a sulphur-crested cockatoo glided across my head and perched in the elm tree. It briefly looked at me as I looked at it then with a mild squawk flew off to join the rest of the gang. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A glorious spring morning and a sulphur-crested cockatoo glided over my head as I took the compost out. It perched on an elm branch, briefly looked down at me as I looked at it then flew off with a mild squawk to join the rest of the gang. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ubiquitous robin was one of my favourite sounds on my recent holiday.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The red wattlebird was first up today, loud and persistent outside my bedroom window then later, after a stint in the giant salvia, it chased off a couple of rainbow lorikeets who had the temerity to be perched in the elm branches. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A jet lagged reply after missing a couple of days. Pigeons at the bus station as I line up for the sky bus back to the station. Wishing you well, Hannah. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think that robins and jackdaws are more than a match for our noisy lorikeets and cockatoos🥴 Video from Downham Beck this afternoon. Turn the sound up but I know you’re used to them😄

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wasn’t able to stay more than 3 weeks this time but it started with a 60 year ‘starting grammar school’ reunion, a week in the middle with my daughter and ended with a wonderful weekend of singing with Maddy Prior at Stones Barn near Bewcastle so I can’t complain😊

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m wandering the grounds of a churchyard in Kirkby Lonsdale and Merlin just can’t keep up with all the birdsong. Jackdaws first seen, squabbling on the church tower, blackbirds, robins, wrens, blue and great tits also seen. Back home tomorrow. Wish I could stay longer😊 #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A chaffinch, robins and blackbirds down by the river bank. It’s like having a full English breakfast here near Bewcastle. #Firstbirdoftheday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A small group of chaffinches, robins in the little wood, a couple of blackbirds down by the river bank and a buzzard over the field on my early morning walk down the lane. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A chaffinch was heard as I ventured outside on this cold and drizzly morning in Cumbria. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jackdaws yet again, a couple of crows and a pigeon, cunningly disguised as another jackdaw with its dark greyish black feathers. Only the walk gave it away, that and the iridescent feathers on the breast. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The jackdaws are following me around. Woke up to them this morning in my little room in Ambleside. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A quick chuckle of blackbird and a chipping of robin shortly after 5am. #FirstBirdofMyDay

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dumpling had her best day ever! 😂 IG: @dumplingthedoodle www.instagram.com/dumplingthed...

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can see jackdaws, almost at eye level, on the chimney of the old house across the road from this rather grand hotel I’m staying in. Damp and melancholic outside, enough to make me want to stay in bed instead of walk around the village as planned. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can hear blue tits and robins and get up to see a flurry of activity in the large tree just outside my bedroom window. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A wood pigeon cooing noisily from behind the house and robins of course, as plentiful as my magpies. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looking at the dodgy photo I took I saw a white eyebrow so Eurasian wren it must be.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy birthday Hannah. Very quiet here this morning but I spotted a little hoppy brown bird skirting around the garden hedges. Wren or dunnock, I’m not sure. It was very sweet 😊 #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Robins again, chattering enthusiastically on this bright and beautiful morning in South Newington. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Two robins chatting across the garden. One flew off under the hedge as I wandered over for a closer look. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think it said rose ringed parakeet. I was walking from Trafalgar Sqare down Whitehall to the abbey.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I heard and saw them on Saturday morning as I was walking down to Westminster Abbey. Merlin agreed with me!

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve been hearing robins but haven’t been able to spot any. A crow and several pigeons flying past my bedroom window plus something that sounds like a parrot😁 My morning from a Hampshire garden. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thanks, I’ll look that one up. Someone I got chatting to on the tube from Heathrow recommended an app which I found very handy, as long as you know which direction you’re going in 🤣

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Occasionally I write it down as soon as I see it just in case I forget later on.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m sitting near the London Eye on Southbank listening to a busker singing Blackbird and just remembered that I don’t have to wait all day to write FB! Pigeons, seagulls and a crow (I think) are all close by. Very peaceful. #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love London but probably because I only ever have short breaks here before staying with family. Just enough time to work out which bus gets me where😜

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As suspected, a pigeon is at the number 91 bus stop just as I arrive there.

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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No signs of any birds just yet but I can see a squirrel running along the back fences of this hotel I’m staying in. I’m willing to bet that my first bird will be a pigeon though as I’m in the heart of London😄 #Firstbirdofmyday #Whatsyours

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