Pied Wagtail is common, Grey Wagtail is less so and females are a more of a brown jobby than grey or yellow in colour. But there tails are distinctively black and white similar to Pied Wagtail.
Too early for Yellow Wagtail and a tad early for White Wagtail and White Wagtails tend to be restricted to our Eastern coastal strip in Spring and Autumn. Travelling northward they can drift west over the channel and make landfall on our eastern coast briefly before realising that they have goofed and then they set off quite quickly back over the channel back to continental Europe.
London is quite a long way west for them to drift and we haven't had any strong NE / E winds long enough / strong enough yet to blow them off course towards our shores yet and it would be early.
I suspect that if the tails are waging and black and white in colour and seen from behind as they fly away you've got Grey Wagtails if you don't instantly recognise them as obvious Pied Wagtails which are easy to identify and very distinctive.
Long tailed tits are usually in small flocks and are very distinctive. Small round fluffy bodies. Their tails don't really 'wag' but they wave a bit, only of the way they move and feed. Gorgeous little things.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They came back today. I think they're long-tailed tits. Maybe they were wagging about to get the rain off. They were in a bare bush and the rain was quite heavy !
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We have Pied, Grey and Yellow Wagtail.
Pied Wagtail is common, Grey Wagtail is less so and females are a more of a brown jobby than grey or yellow in colour. But there tails are distinctively black and white similar to Pied Wagtail.
Too early for Yellow Wagtail and a tad early for White Wagtail and White Wagtails tend to be restricted to our Eastern coastal strip in Spring and Autumn. Travelling northward they can drift west over the channel and make landfall on our eastern coast briefly before realising that they have goofed and then they set off quite quickly back over the channel back to continental Europe.
London is quite a long way west for them to drift and we haven't had any strong NE / E winds long enough / strong enough yet to blow them off course towards our shores yet and it would be early.
I suspect that if the tails are waging and black and white in colour and seen from behind as they fly away you've got Grey Wagtails if you don't instantly recognise them as obvious Pied Wagtails which are easy to identify and very distinctive.
Thanks,CC. There was definitely a bit of brown!
Long tailed tits maybe?
I thought Long Tailed Tits firstly but they don't wag their tails and they are a lot smaller than description describes.
Meadow pipits look like this Obs
Long tailed tits are usually in small flocks and are very distinctive. Small round fluffy bodies. Their tails don't really 'wag' but they wave a bit, only of the way they move and feed. Gorgeous little things.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They were certainly wagging. It was raining at the time so I thought at first they were shaking off the rain!
They came back today. I think they're long-tailed tits. Maybe they were wagging about to get the rain off. They were in a bare bush and the rain was quite heavy !