What flew over your house (yesterday)

[Tim Marlow]

Saw the Swordfish out of Yeovilton yesterday on my way to Wincanton. Not over my house, but great to see it.

[Lee W]

Definitely not my house and definitely not above me either, excuse the pics and a shoddy video... 2 Typhoons and an Atlas.


Hmm, Atlas won't load?!
Whilst driving to Keswick, I was approaching a busy junction when my darling angel wife shouts out, "F@%kin' 'ell!... sorry!".... we got an up close and personal view of an Atlas going low and slow over our heads through the valley, still can't work out who made me jump the most, the wife or the Atlas?! :tears-of-joy:

[Lee Drennen]

Beautiful country side. I see it I think???

[Lee W]

Beautiful country side. I see it I think???

It is stunning Lee, we are stood at the top of Catbells so as you can see the view is amazing and to see the RAF playing was a surprise too

[colin m]

Well not yesterday, but right now.

This Avro Anson, looking very nice in its D day markings.

[Lee Drennen]

Last week this old Piper Cub flew over sorry couldn’t get a great pic of him colors were Red and Yellow. He flew north pic over the garage then a couple minutes later flew back south that’s when I got a little better pic of him.

[Waspie]

The usual for this time of the year.
HMCG helicopter!

Perk of living in Lemmingville!! We have cliffs to plummet, water to struggle in and quarries to stumble in!!
My money is on a cliff rescue!!

[minitnkr]

We had an airshow last weekend & I was at the local commercial airport Monday to PU a friend. I'm unfamiliar w/phone photography & missed Cobra, Thunderbolt, Stearman, & F16 takeoffs & flyovers. I'm still angry as I thought each would be the last. I thought all would be at the nearby AFB not at the airport some miles distant.

[Guest]

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Two oystercatchers seem to be wanting to take up residence here, which is silly because they’re wading birds, and it’s a good four to five hundred meters to the beach as the crow oystercatcher flies … I managed to snap this one just as it took off from the roof ridge, so this is very literally “flew over my house” Their near-constant chirping, or whatever it is that their noise is called, is already getting a bit old, though.

[Waspie]

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Two oystercatchers seem to be wanting to take up residence here, which is silly because they’re wading birds, and it’s a good four to five hundred meters to the beach as the crow oystercatcher flies … I managed to snap this one just as it took off from the roof ridge, so this is very literally “flew over my house” :smiling3: Their near-constant chirping, or whatever it is that their noise is called, is already getting a bit old, though.

I'll swap you your oyster catchers for seagulls any day. They start squawking about 3:30 am and then at about 8am start oop:ing all over SWMBO's washing/plants/car/freshly done block paving!

[colin m]

Two oystercatchers seem to be wanting to take up residence here

I would sooner have Oystercatchers than all the 'chuffin' pigeons I have here. Courtship is a really noisy affair for a pigeon.

[Tim Marlow]

Oystercatchers are a bit rarer than your average birds Jakko. They may well be nesting up there.

[Guest]

I discovered what was going on about an hour later. I was out in front of the house, just sitting in the evening sunshine a bit with the cats, and the oystercatchers were now on the roofs of houses further down the street, back and forth from left to right, etc. Then suddenly I saw small movement on the pavement on the opposite side of the street a couple of houses down, and realised it was a little, long-legged bird coming my way. As it came closer, it turned out to be a young oystercatcher, that traipsed off a footpath between the houses.

Some people I had noticed further down the street followed it at a distance, and explained that they suspect it has been living around a patch of common lawn behind the houses, that the footpath also runs to. They had seen it in the street and decided to keep an eye on it, so it wouldn’t get run over. We lost sight of the chick, but on the lawn was a woman playing frisbee with her dog, and one of the oystercatchers made a couple of attack runs at the dog

[Lee W]

I'll swap you your oyster catchers for seagulls any day. They start squawking about 3:30 am and then at about 8am start oop:ing all over SWMBO's washing/plants/car/freshly done block paving!

Oh the joys of being coastal, although living in Sherbs I had a lucky escape, a bombing from the oop:e hawks... saw it fall so I stopped in my path, it landed millimeters from my starboard steaming bat! Very lucky, otherwise it would of hit centre mass!

Whilst walking home I could hear a helo but couldn't see it as trees and houses were blocking my view, by the time I got my phone out to take a pic, 2 Wildcats in formation flew by... well this is what you get for being slow!

[Tim Marlow]

Oh the joys of being coastal, although living in Sherbs I had a lucky escape, a bombing from the oop:e hawks... saw it fall so I stopped in my path, it landed millimeters from my starboard steaming bat! Very lucky, otherwise it would of hit centre mass!

Whilst walking home I could hear a helo but couldn't see it as trees and houses were blocking my view, by the time I got my phone out to take a pic, 2 Wildcats in formation flew by... well this is what you get for being slow!

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Not all gulls live in the coast Lee. Common gulls aren’t called common because there are a lot of ‘em. They are called common because they are usually found on common land.