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Garden (Yard) List 2012 (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Larry Lade
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Canon stuff, but not particularly top end.
If you want to see what kind of cruddy house I live in, open the first woodpecker close-up - reflected in eye!
Jane Turner
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and there was me thinking that it was an outside Loo!
Jane Turner
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I've added Jackdaw and Raven in the last few days. Hoping for some more additions on today's tide
(68 now)
(68 now)
Jane Turner
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I've not Greylag for you.
There's a lot to be said for having an outside loo. Sadly this one was not in my garden.
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KenM
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edenwatcher
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uninspiring but
82. pied wagtail
Rob
82. pied wagtail
Rob
chowchilla
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A sleepless night with stomach cramps saw me off sick from work today. Thus in typical perverse style I was out the front at dawn watching and listening for migrants.
My head was spinning from fatigue so I didn't last long but I was duly rewarded with a Brown Cuckoo Dove whizzing by heading west, its long tail a distinctive diagnostic giveaway.
A bit of a surprise and a sign that there may be fruiting trees nearby. I'll be keeping an eye out for other fruit doves on my days off. I retired to bed now that the cramps were subsiding and slept fitfully till the early afternoon.
70) Brown Cuckoo Dove.
My head was spinning from fatigue so I didn't last long but I was duly rewarded with a Brown Cuckoo Dove whizzing by heading west, its long tail a distinctive diagnostic giveaway.
A bit of a surprise and a sign that there may be fruiting trees nearby. I'll be keeping an eye out for other fruit doves on my days off. I retired to bed now that the cramps were subsiding and slept fitfully till the early afternoon.
70) Brown Cuckoo Dove.
Jane Turner
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I made it 70 today, with Eider and Mediterranean Gull.
70/43/21
70/43/21
Cheshire Birder
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Good tick Halftwo!!
Added Canada goose to my garden yearlist today.
CB
Added Canada goose to my garden yearlist today.
CB
John o'Sullivan
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Goldfinch (56) today plus 8 buzzards and 3 kite on a thermal lunchtime.
Saw the Ring billed gull in Cardigan 3:30ish down to 20 foot.
Hoping I'd see it past house on way out to sea to roost but didn't get it.
Saw the Ring billed gull in Cardigan 3:30ish down to 20 foot.
Hoping I'd see it past house on way out to sea to roost but didn't get it.
Larry Lade
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24. Ring-billed Gull, a flyover!
KenM
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Good one H!..I could do with that on my ''yarden'' list.....Indeed anything that might close the gap!...I predict Chiff-Chaff as my next ''Heinz''
Snow in retreat, patches of grass opening up, so arrived the first birds of spring - a steady trickle of Skylarks tootling over, plus three Lapwings plodding around a pool of water sitting atop ice. Horrible weather - cold and damp - so not much trampsing around - but six species of woodpecker today, including a female White-backed Woodpecker at the feeders (first female this year), a pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers in display and the long-staying Three-toed Woodpecker still loyal to his favoured little patch.
More engaging however, a Great Grey Shrike hunting at the feeders, lurking at the forest edge then swooping around after the tits flocking in. Two Willow Tits still with the masses, the Coal Tit too.
27. Skylark.
28. Lapwing.
Another week and stuff will be pouring in, so I predict.
More engaging however, a Great Grey Shrike hunting at the feeders, lurking at the forest edge then swooping around after the tits flocking in. Two Willow Tits still with the masses, the Coal Tit too.
27. Skylark.
28. Lapwing.
Another week and stuff will be pouring in, so I predict.
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joannec
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..........the stuff of dreams...........and at the feeders too!
