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Recent content by Steve Lister

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    April Moths

    I am still holding back from wasting my time but my mate Tony down the road showed me a pristine Eyed Hawkmoth this morning, the earliest he has ever caught.
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I am amazed how many people regard Merlin as reliable - everytime I experiment with it something very,very unlikely comes up. The most recent was it claiming Common Sandpiper every few minutes one morning - in my garden well away from anywhere one would be. It was a Blue Tit. Anyway..... April...
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    April 20th 62. Shelduck - 3 flew north A garden lifer too, #108. Very lucky to see them as I was originally expecting to be watching Black Grouse up north this morning but the trip fell through, and then I planned an early start for Rutland Water but didn't wake up.
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    April 19 61. House Martin - just heard as a quick April shower started.
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    April 14th 60. Sand Martin - a total of 8 flew NW, clearly on passage Oddly, Sand Martin was #60 last year as well but not until May 10th.
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    April Moths

    First successful attempt since February produced just 7 of 5 but included 2 Powdered Quakers and a Yellow-barred Brindle, my earliest ever records of two species I don't catch very often. Just down the road my mate had 3 Least Black Arches, Oak Nycteoline, Pale Pinion and another Yellow-barred...
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    April 6th 58. Chiffchaff - singing on and off all morning, though distant and never seen 59. Curlew - heard 'singing' distantly, presumably a passage bird inspired by the sight of Lufbra
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    World list spreadsheets

    Anyone else? If so, please say which version, IOC or eBird/Clements/Cornell, you want.
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    World list spreadsheets

    A few years ago I produced Excel spreadsheets based on both the Clements/eBird/Cornell and IOC world bird lists and offered them to any Birdforum members who wanted them, several people taking up my offer. I have now completely updated both spreadsheets including all the periodic updates issued...
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    March Moths

    A friend in Oakham, Rutland photographed a Hummingbird Hawkmoth in his garden today. Anyone know if it will be a very early immigrant, one that has wintered, or what?
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    How many shorebirds/waders have you seen?

    Eighteen months after I last counted, I am now up two and on 172. Both thanks to taxonomists.
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    March 19th 57. Goosander - a female flew SE early evening Depite there being small numbers on the two ponds either end of town I think this is just the third time in seven years I have had one passing over here.
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I saw somewhere that someone had 3000 migrating NE up the Bristol Channel but just the one came over Lufbra.
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Hi Mike - I suspected that might be the reason for the eBird shortfall which I think is 160 species - looks about right as a proportion of the 174. As for having to make multiple additions of a species onto BUBO lists, the entry template makes this easy enough by having the option to add to...
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    I have most of my full lists on the excellent BUBO Listing site which has been going a good few years now but I suppose could suffer problems just like any other site. It is purely a listing site for anyone who does not know it, and well worth a look. The administrators keep up with taxonomic...
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