In 25 words or less describe your local patch

[cjay]

Lowestoft
Hard work with little reward. Sometimes good. Often it is not. Good birds have been seen but otherwise the most difficult patch in Suffolk.

CJ

[Tammie]

At this time of year.... frozen, snowy forest and brush! Fabulous for grosbeaks.

[Jane Turner]

In the right weather anything can turn up, everything moves, nothing stays. If you are there more than 3 hours after dawn you missed it.

(Red Rocks NNR, Merseyside)

[Ruby]

The outermost suburbs. London to the North, open countryside South. Very varied - woods, farmland, open chalk downland, village pond! Just missing a bit of coastline!


Phew - 25. Ruby

[Glen Tepke]

Boston Public Garden. Small urban park. Large trees, insufficient shrubbery. Pond. Hard to hear over traffic noise. *My* patch but best birds found by others.

[Susan C]

My back yard? Tall honeylocust, old fat crabapple and cedar hedge. Small me-made pond. Suburban town surrounded by alarmingly-disappearing countryside. Snow coming soon.

25!

[Tim Allwood]

Waxham, Norfolk

underwatched, massive potential, sea, beach, scrub, sycamores, fields, Cranes, Dusky, Hume's, Ybrowed, Pied wheatear, Pallas's in a few hundred yards this autumn!!!
what a place.....

[Stephen Dunstan]

Starr Gate, Blackpool

Patience required. Sea and more sea. New modern art surrounds shelter. Scoters in droves, Velvets occasional Surf long overdue. Sea passage, vis mig occasionally decent.

[CJW]

Hugely varied habitats. Frustrating. Occasionally very rewarding. Often lonely.

[Andrew]

Simple birds are very rewarding and appreciated from diverse scenery set in open countryside.

(Grand Western Canal, Devon)

[Beverlybaynes]

Diverse habitat from urban to rural, grasslands to woods to fields. Parts can be wonderful in migration. Don't get to spend enough time there.

(northeast Indiana)

[christineredgate]

Read the page in Birdwatching Mag re Hodbarrow!!.That is my local patch,but,do not attempt the hide in a wheelchair!!,more info on request.
Christine

[christineredgate]

Mountain views,beautiful Irish sea, many waders,haunting call of the peewits,noisy chatter of breeding terns,raucous screech of gulls,patiently waiting Herons,sunset over the sea.
Christine

[GR Triever]

150,000 acres.

[Hanno]

Mangrove Forest. Huge Heronry. Hot, smelly. Accessible by boat only. Great birds, ca. 100 species. Did I mention HOT?

[Dave B Smith]

Two habitats, Coastal mud flats on Ocean inlet, good all year, Second habitats are countryside, too hot and mosquito infested to enjoy in the summer, great in Winter. Any given day birding will normally turn up about 40 species, have often got 60. Beautiful birds!

[mcdowella]

Edge of (inland) British market town. Walk past trees then through fields to rough ground and river, then bridge where people feed ducks and pigeons.

[Adey Baker]

Woodland, Common Land, open access so lots of joggers, dog-walkers (including me!) etc. however easiest place to see Nuthatches and Jays

[Surreybirder]

Manicured Surrey countryside; loads of sheep and horses (and 1 pig); woodland used for pheasant rearing; stream, water-skied on lake. Potential not yet known.

[jayhunter]

Sheep farming upland, small village pond feed by a stream, woods down the valley side. My local tally now includes, Lapwing, Curlew, Woodpeckers, Jays, Nuthatch, Goldcrest and common garden birds.

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Dippers on the burn, Purps on the rocks, Scoter on the Bay, Fulmars on the cliffs, Blackwits on the mud, a Peregrine in the sky.

St Andrews, Fife

[birdman]

Semi-rural edge of town, farmland, rough ground, trees, pond, ditches, sandy, grassy, crops, hedges – bordered by housing, trunk road and trunk rail… surprisingly quiet!

[christineredgate]

Readind these descriptions of everyones birding area,makes one one to go and visit them.Also don't you think we are all very priveleged to be able to enjoy a lovely hobby/interest in such scenic surroundings.I most certainly do.We have just returned from the city,and I couldn't wait for my first view of the mountains.
Christine.

[Brian Stone]

Peterborough Area

Diverse inland habitats: grasslands, woodlands, brick/gravel pits, fenland, washland, rivers (incl tidal), urban. 203 (personally 171) species this year. Rewards hard work. Regular surprises. :t:

http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/area_map.htm

[Larry Lade]

Christine,

? "haunting call of the peewits" ?

What is a "peewit"?

Larry

[Larry Lade]

Shallow "oxbow" lakes, some residential (feeders), agricultural fields (corn, soybeans), bordered by Missouri River (riparian), some wood lots. Diverse habitat has produced about 200 species.

Larry

[Brian Stone]

Christine,

? "haunting call of the peewits" ?

What is a "peewit"?

Larry

Vanellus vanellus : Lapwing, Lappie, Lappin, Lipwingle, Lymptwigg, Flopwing, Lappinch, Peewit, Piewipe, Peweep, Phillipene, Peesweep, Peesieweep, Weep, Wype, Teufit, Teuchit, Tewit, Tuet, Chewit, Tewet, Tewhit, Tee Whip, Tee Wup, Tieves Nacket, Green Plover, Hornpie, Horneywink, Cornwillen, Old Maid, Wallock, Wallopie Weep, Scochad, Shouchad . . etc.

I am just off to lunch to count a few Wallopie Weeps!

[Arwen]

Water is scarce,
the birds flock here.
So I watch.

(Nice one Crispy!)

[Jasonbirder]

Tough going - farmland, some set aside fields, one permanent, one seasonal pool. Winter for Barn, Little and Short-eared Owls.

[Yve_M]

Frozen lake, snow, birch grove in boreal forest; spruce, pine, fir. Grosbeaks, chickadees (boreal too), redpolls, gray jays, ravens, great gray owl, spruce grouse, pileated, three toed, hairy, downy. Awesome sunsets, northern lights. Wait I didn't tell you about summer .....

[LSB]

coastal patch..fresh water pond aswell. very rewarding seawatching. waders.small stuff.mind the dog doo thou..

[John N]

It was a colliery, now it's a park. 156 acres,of meadows, woodland and pools.The three woodpeckers ,jays,few ducks, dogs, joggers and me.

[Gill Osborne]

ROFL@ Littlestintboy!!!
Yep, that's our local patch to a 'T' !!!!! Couldn't have put it better!!!

[Elizabeth Bigg]

My front and back gardens, including trees in neighbouring gardens.

OK - not really very exciting, but we are hoping to extend our range next year, and develop some digiscoping skills.

[boyinthebush]

Walking behind the house... hedgerows, fields, stream and plenty of "no access" woodland. Makes for a wide variety but with little access to see it.

[seb salas]

Devoid of birds. Over watched. High crime rate. Escaped Ferruginous Ducks. Within walking distance, but generally not worth bothering with.

[Denis J]

West = Farmland. dirt roads, a couple of fishing lakes (small) Tree Sparrows and corn buntings and this week golden Plover, lapwings and pink foots.

[Denis J]

East = 2 wooded denes cliffs beaches and more farmland Great grey shrike last year richards pipits (5) this year and anything could turn up out to sea in a northerly!

[Denis J]

or should that be pink feet?

[jada dulo]

Excellent on a good day , but I still missed the Purple Heron , damn !!

[stuprice68]

Cold in winter. A small mountain/cape. Otherwiswe urban with a few trees and 2 rivers. Coastal. Lots seabirds/forest birds. Nice seafood. Boring in summer.

[Nancy]

100 acres of hilly, eucalypt forest with a creek running through the valley. total of about 60 bird species seen on or over the block. Quality birds rather than quantity.
Love it!

[Karl J]

Good thread ....

Marshes stretching into the distance, mudflats, small woods, a windmill by the river and a Roman castle on a hill. Birds by the cartload.

Fantastic !!!