Larry Lade
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21. Red-winged Blackbird, ~200 fly-overs
Having been present ''outback'' since March 1st ( but not viewable from the house/garden)...it was much appreciated when they flew past this evening...no.56
Cracking birds to get on a garden list!
A pair of Mandarin on a village pond near Epsom, Surrey at the age of 4 is one of my earliest bird memories. Not sure if they were really countable though ... ?!
Perhaps not then c1937?.....but they are now
224 species for the combined list now
... ha, but I'm actually one of the youngest posters on this thread!!! :-O
I've decided that in order to give me a chance of keeping up with Jane, Chowchilla's and Rob's list
I'm going to include all the houses that I'll be living in this year so that's my mates house on the Teifi, my house in Newport and my house in Turkey (2 weeks in July and 3 weeks Sept-Oct).
Seems fair to me.
55 for the year. Added Goosander on Sunday as a pair flew up river, other highlights an adult med and a male peregrine. Also quite nice breakfast time on sunday as 4 little egrets flew down river followed by a pair of Shelduck.
I spent a fair bit of time looking out the living room window hoping for one of the Glaucs or iceland gulls on the estuary to fly by. No luck for the house list but got them both on my Teifi list.
I've decided that in order to give me a chance of keeping up with Jane, Chowchilla's and Rob's list
I'm going to include all the houses that I'll be living in this year so that's my mates house on the Teifi, my house in Newport and my house in Turkey (2 weeks in July and 3 weeks Sept-Oct).
Seems fair to me.
I still doubt I'll make more than about 100. Some birds I normally have to wait until winter for have already shown themselves, plus I won't get a rush of species around migration time, though I will get a few things.To be fair that's probably the only way you will get anywhere near their totals.
CB