KenM
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#61. Brambling - one female
Always a nice bird to get Wari!, presume they're regular with you...not for me though, although one year during January I had 16 in the garden....a-a-a-h those were the days.
#61. Brambling - one female
I could hardly believe my eyes this afternoon, if I had to do a list of the next possible garden ticks this one would not have been in the first 20 as it's a species rarely seen at our altitude in Haute-Savoie (just a couple per year on average). So it counts as Bird of the Year for me here (so far) :
85 Lesser spotted Woodpecker
Our Bramblings have moved on/up?/out?, probably something to do with the silly tee shirt weather this week, very mild and sunny days and not even a frost last night despite the clear skies.
I could hardly believe my eyes this afternoon, if I had to do a list of the next possible garden ticks this one would not have been in the first 20 as it's a species rarely seen at our altitude in Haute-Savoie (just a couple per year on average). So it counts as Bird of the Year for me here (so far) :
85 Lesser spotted Woodpecker
:t: Nice.
I live in hope that some day I see LSW in my garden. :smoke:
Well we share one species for the year Bryan, and mine to was a flyover grdn.tick, I think you might get it. No chance of me hitting eighty let alone a hundred, I'm hoping for a cold snap...that potentially could get me a few more.
Cheers
Hi Ken
If I'm guessing correctly, yes it seems we do share a garden tic. I was unaware that they aren't native to the Americas, having arrived in South America from Africa around 1877, tough little buggers.
Anyway a new one that has been hanging around with the Baltimore Orioles. She went unnoticed for days until her pale yellow wash around the head and underparts instead of the light orange of the Baltimores finally sunk in. Not much gets by me
88. Orchid Oriole.
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Another one I won't be getting Bryan!....however ''up the road'' in Oxfordshire a few years back now, we had an overwintering Baltimore Oriole, and during 1989 ''down the road'' in Larkfield, Kent, we had an overwintering Golden-winged Warbler!!! .....so never say die!
:t: Nice.
I live in hope that some day I see LSW in my garden. :smoke:
That sounds interesting . . . new to science? :eek!:
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Have I gone crazy? This afternoon I was about half a mile from home a little inland sat in the car doing a little local birding and I saw a raptor that would be a year tick for my "from home list". I sped home specifically to see it from home....oh dear
78. Short-toed Eagle
They're not rare here at all, in fact I'm surprised not to have seen one near home this year.
Not at all, Simon! I've done that a few times.
The other day I was about a mile from home when a Raven went over - but I was on foot! Still need it.
I'll just have to content myself watching the regular three Hawfinches (all cracking males Ken 8-P) munching the sunflower seeds, it's a hard life sometimes.....
86 Alpine Accentor