Comments on: More Birds Of Spitalfields

By: Gary Arber

Gary Arber — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:57:38 +0000

I spotted an unusual bird last year.
Each morning I heard the drumming of a Woodpecker but with a mettalic ring, I eventually spotted it, a Greater Spotted Woodpecker drumming on the reflecter plates of TV ariels.
I had seen The Greater Spotted Tinpecker.
Gary

By: John and Sandy Critchley

John and Sandy Critchley — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:52:10 +0000

We are inundated with greenfinches in Wilkes Street!

By: Constance Birmingham

Constance Birmingham — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:30:33 +0000

Lovely! Wonderful to see this variety in a big city! Thanks for these beautiful pictures.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:05:24 +0000

lovely pictures.

I note one of the photographers is Ian HARPER. My grandmother’s maiden name was Harper (Alice Ada Harper with 4 sisters and 2 brothers) and she lived in Spitalfields most of her life – probably born in North (Rd or St). If at all possible please would you pass my email address to him for contact – as I don’t know how common the name Harper is in Spitalfields. Perhaps a second cousin.

By: Philip Mernick

Philip Mernick — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:44:40 +0000

A few more for Tower Hamlets if not quite Spitalfields. The quarrelsome Greenfinch, pretty common in my garden (Bow) also Dunnocks rather inconspicuous, poking around amongst the leaf litter. The sinister looking Cormorants now on the Thames and Lea. Ducks, Geese and Coots a plenty in Victoria Park.

By: Dasha

Dasha — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:07:11 +0000

How wonderful that there is such a variety of feathered friends over a major metropolis like London. And beautiful plates too.

By: Achim

Achim — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:55:11 +0000

These are incredible and funny names of the birds! The English names as well as the German ones:

Pied Wagtail —> Bachstelze
Parakeet —> Papagei
Heron —> Reiher
Buzzard —> Bussard
Blackcap —> Barett
Swift —> Mauersegler
Raven —> Rabe
Kite —> Gabelweihe
Sparrowhawk —> Sperber
Long-tailed Tit —> Schwanzmeise
Willow Warbler —> Weidengrasmücke
Greater Spotted Woodpecker —> Großer Buntspecht

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 06:53:26 +0000

Yes, they are all coming back, aren’t they?
And new arrivals too.
The rose-ringed parakeets are now all over London, as residents, terns & kingfishers are nesting in Walthamstow, little egrets have joined the herons on the reservoirs, spar-hawks beat down the streets for prey,
A lot of them are following the green lung & pathway of the Lea Valley – very occasionally, snipe have been seen there & once, a hen-harrier.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 05:18:30 +0000

I am happy to see so many birds still flying over Spitalfields! Valerie