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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I agree, I test it a few times a week on average and it rarely gets anything wrong (herring vs yl gull still an issue ;-)) but the old problems of chaffinch vs redstart call etc seem to have been ironed out
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    Do you count heard only birds on your life list?

    If I actively kept lists (even my patch list is behind times nowadays) I would chose 1. I'd never really thought about not counting heard only, when carrying out surveys I'd say 95% of the birds I record on BBS are heard only so have always seen it as equal to seeing the bird. I get far more...
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    45. Carrion crow 46. Moorhen (heard flying over while putting my nocmig set up out) Nocmig has also ticked along: vi) Pheasant vii) Curlew viii) Grey heron ix) Green sandpiper x) Stone-curlew
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Summer is here :cool: 44. Swallow also had #43 Linnet earlier in the week
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    Upcoming trip to Egypt, asking for advices....

    With regards to binoculars and cameras etc I have a bit of advice, I worked in Egypt a few years ago and some of my colleagues had their optics confiscated while I was lucky and didn't. What we found was if you dressed like a tourist (I was wearing board shorts and flip flops) they didn't check...
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I just use a Zoom H4nPro with no external mic. Picks up enough to keep me interested
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Only the one addition this past couple of weeks: 42) grey wagtail Nocmig has started picking up and if I wasn't so lazy and just stayed awake in the garden all night I could have added: i) moorhen ii) Canada goose iii) avocet iv) teal v) little grebe
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    eBird and Birding on the move

    Those are the at sea records, this is it in full. SO I know the locations were at sea in the Falklands and SG
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    eBird and Birding on the move

    Ones on land have the street/road/area name first. The ones with just coordinates are at sea records so won’t have these but will have the country/sea it’s located in as part of the location
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    eBird and Birding on the move

    I think it must be you, I have just checked my locations and every auto-generated ones I have created on the app have coordinates (see a few examples attached).
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I think I'm a few weeks behind with this, not that there is much to catch up with tbh! All flyovers: 38. Lapwing 39. Feral pigeon 40. Peregrine 41 Skylark Spring is in the air here so hopefully pick up a few more soon.
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    A couple more over the stormy weekend: 36) LBBG 37) Tawny owl Thought the storm may have blown some things in but other than an increase in blackcaps (3) and firecrest (2) nothing much else!
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Finally catching up with my eBird entries for the year and in turn my garden list and thought I'd give Dan a challenge in the Cornish 3rd division. First full year in the house, no views of the sea this time but a pretty wild overgrown garden will hopefully pull in a few things. 1 Woodpigeon...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Hopefully this podcast will give you a better idea behind the reasoning. https://www.aba.org/inside-the-bird-name-committee/
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Maybe its the cold weather further north ;) plenty firecrest here and a fair few blackcap, including a couple in the garden. Hoping the village turtle dove ends up in the garden soon too
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