Sharpy@MrFarings

@WriterHannahBT Along the track this morning a chiffchaff is singing. I think it must sing all day from the first hint of daylight to the last slither. His brethren mark out my path to the Humber Hideaway cafe. I have a singing guard of honour. Wishing everyone a chiffchaffing Easter Holiday.

First bird of my day: half a pigeon, so close to the window, that is all I could see so I stood very quietly so as not to disturb it and stared at it’s beautiful metallic, petrol-stain coloured neck. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

@WriterHannahBT The echoing song of blackcap has been rebounding through the woodland and tantalising my desire to actually see one. Today, my Missus caught a glimpse of him and we stood still and stared. It’s body pulsating, it’s bill busy as it threw out song. The song raced into the ether.

First bird of my day: a blackbird picking up moss for his nest amongst fire-engine-red tulips. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

@WriterHannahBT Under the scraggy tree in the fresh spring grass by the roadside, a goldfinch wrestled with a closed dandelion seed head. This multi coloured Artist’s palette ripped open the seed head and feasted on it’s prize. Thru my binoculars this was a proper David Attenborough moment.

First bird of my day: the chirping sparrows outside my bedroom window, fluffed up in the cold breeze and eyes bright, dedicated to my father on his 80th Birthday, for he is the one who showed me the birds. Happy Birthday Daddy! #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

@WriterHannahBT This morning it’s just about the everything. Birdsong all over. Like an infant school playground at playtime. Wherever I am I am amongst birdsong. Pouring through my ears and soaking my brain with music. Soaking wet through with the springtime symphony.

First bird of my day: the feathered sunshine of a flock of Yellowhammers in their bright spring plumage. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

@WriterHannahBT Feathered sunshine ❤️. I have an image. Beautiful

@WriterHannahBT Five cormorants, in Lancaster Bomber formation, pass overhead. All that’s missing is the sound of merlin engines.

First bird of my day: a goldfinch looking at me from behind the blackthorn blossom, plumage bright red and yellow like a cheerful clown. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

@WriterHannahBT The March wind roars, a lesser black backed gull passed overhead and raced away. It wasn’t until I was by the shore that I found my next birds. A gang of redshanks, huddled together at the waters-edge. Maybe twenty birds. Let the wind blow March away, hurry home Spring.

First bird of my day: a raven picking up nesting material, carefully selecting moss. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

@WriterHannahBT Up above the scaly trunk, amongst the dark green pine leaves, a delicate song, a tinkle with rhythm. A goldcrest is above me. Can hear it, can’t see it. I’m painting it’s fiery yellow, it’s delicate green, it’s needle thin bill, in my mind. It’s song is racing around my soul.

First bird of my day: a blackbird staring at me with his yellow rimmed eyes as I opened the curtains. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

@Yarrowman1 😁❤️

A little star for #Wrensday🙂

@WriterHannahBT The woodland is still dancing in the aftermath of last nights storm. No bird song reaching my ears but a great tit flashed across my path before the long tailed tit flashed across my path.

First bird of my day: a blackbird under the bushes, sheltering from the wind while a Red Kite flew with a large stick that dropped over the roof. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

@WriterHannahBT Down the track, in the long copse, the wind sways trees with the sound of stormy seas. Amongst this clattering argument a great spotted woodpecker clings to a dead branch and bangs out his drumming. Like a marble in a washing machine the wind smothered drummer beats out his tune.

First bird of my day: a kestrel hovering above a ploughed field hemmed by blackthorn blossom and skylark song. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

@mendipandy @TrooperSnooks @ChrisGPackham So, ditching organic farming will reduce food supply in such a way that it couldn’t supply the people of this Country?

@SharpyMrFaring1 @TrooperSnooks @ChrisGPackham might feed a village / hamlet, but wont feed a city , you have no idea of the volumes required

Food prices likely to rise due to Iran war, farmers' union says . . . of course it does , as it’s nitrogen pumping , pesticide dumping paymasters profit from fossil fuel dependency to drive the industrial agriculture which is killing our home . . . bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@mendipandy @TrooperSnooks @ChrisGPackham Just scale it up. Simple maths

@TrooperSnooks @ChrisGPackham Que , all the wooly hatted allotment greens , telling you to use companion crops and proper rotations , quite how they will feed 60 mill people on that ,i dont know ,

@WriterHannahBT My singing blackcap crusade left me empty eared. My pursuit continues. However, it was a brand new mallard duckling day. Tiny balls of fluff chasing insects across the flat calm pond. My missus melted after this overload of utter cuteness. Groaning like a rutting stag.

First bird of my day: the jingle jangle call of the corn buntings as they survey the freezing dawn. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

@WriterHannahBT 😳. OMG I thought I was the only person who called the song of a corn bunting as a jingle jangle

@WriterHannahBT After yesterday’s spectacular string of 44 whooper swans passing over my garden, I am out enjoying my more local birds. Bird song everywhere. Glastonbury by birds. My ears are sucking in the songs and translating them into bird names. Loving the concert.

First bird of my day: starlings chortling on the roof, making all sorts of noises as the gardens across their territory are blooming and spring equinox has arrived. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

@James_B___ @nybirdnews @YorkBirding How many? Saw 44 over Barton this afternoon

Patch ✅ whooper swans this evening, making their way back north. Common scoter heard last night was also a ✅. #PWC2026 @YorkBirding

@sherburnsi @nybirdnews @teesbirds1 @teeswildlife @DurhamBirdClub @NTBirdClub @Natures_Voice @NatureUK @WildlifeMag @BBCSpringwatch @RSPBEngland @UKNikon Beautiful image.

Linnet on the North East coast the other day. @teesbirds1 @teeswildlife @DurhamBirdClub @nybirdnews @NTBirdClub @Natures_Voice @NatureUK @WildlifeMag @BBCSpringwatch @RSPBEngland @UKNikon #birds #wildlifephotography

@WriterHannahBT Today I’ve been enchanted by long tailed tits. Those music notes of the woods and telephone wires. Upside down, right way up, reaching the very tips of the very tips of delicate tree canopies. Spider fart calls, pretty in pink and the song thrush sings forever.

First bird of my day: a jackdaw walking up a roof with a stick and then diving into what is obviously its home. When I looked around, every roof had a jackdaw carrying a nesting stick and doing similar things. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

@WriterHannahBT I’ve never been and my friend an I have always want to go. London is far away from us and a little scary. We plan to jump on the Hull Train to Kings Cross and get there this year

News: the Natural History Museum is the TOP tourist attraction in the UK. Clearly us humans do like nature but it would be great if that connection (which is fundamental to our own survival) was fully incorporated in how our elected government run the country…