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Garden / Yard List 2017 (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter halftwo
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lazza
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A couple of species to add to the list from last week, one presumably missed in error earlier in the year:
38. Herring gull (surely not the first I've seen over the garden this year, but I don't appear to have listed it so far)
39. Oystercatcher
Displaying pair of Lesser Spotted Eagles today, joined by adult White-tailed Eagle ...very nice.
davewalters
Well-known member
Long time lurker and admirer.
Dying to share - Calling Nightjar, very distantly on Saturday night heard whilst standing in my garden having a fag! They are present through the season around 1.25 miles away but there is suitable habitat closer, which they're presumably trying out this year, so not too surprising really. Nice garden bird! 81 in total.
Dave Walters (Delamere, Cheshire)
Dying to share - Calling Nightjar, very distantly on Saturday night heard whilst standing in my garden having a fag! They are present through the season around 1.25 miles away but there is suitable habitat closer, which they're presumably trying out this year, so not too surprising really. Nice garden bird! 81 in total.
Dave Walters (Delamere, Cheshire)
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Bienvenue Dave, what a treat to hear Nightjar from the garden, why not do a garden yearlist with the rest of us reprobates ( I'm assuming 81 is your all- time total?)?
Paul Chapman
Well-known member
Don't White-tailed Eagles occasionally predate Lesser Spotted Eagles? On a trip to Latvia some years ago, we were shown an adult White-tailed Eagle which the local ornithologists kept to attract Lesser Spotted Eagles for ringing purposes as they came to mob it.
All the best
KenM
Well-known member
davewalters
Well-known member
Hi guys, yes 81 is the overall total, just about 2 & 1/2 years. It's only a small to medium sized garden but the habitat all around is excellent so always loads of potential. Other than Nightjar no real surprises although Mediterranean Gull is regular if you put the time in watching the gulls depart local quarries in the evening. Can't actually see any water bodies due to loads of trees but in-flight waterfowl and GC Grebes are fairly regular so that bumps it up. I'll keep you posted!
BTW Half-two, remember me? I was a mate of Gregsy
Dave
BTW Half-two, remember me? I was a mate of Gregsy
Dave
wcb
Mike Firth
I'd actually forgotten quite how much noise their wings make - these days I normally just see them hanging out on the Thames.
John o'Sullivan
Well-known member
see post 627. I have nightjar on my Turkey house list but also one evening a stone curlew flew down the street at roof level calling. I expected nighjar they are often around the Sitesi at dusk. stone curlew was completely unexpected despite their being present on the nearby police academy land.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
You didn't hang about H, and unlike the rest of us, you'll have some winter ones to add later!
At our old place wE had Dunnock and Marsh Warblers a'plenty, both absent here, I had therefore resigned myself to not having today's addition:
69 Cuckoo
calling down by the river, I wonder which species could be on the Cuckoo's hit list' down there, is Robin possible?
At our old place wE had Dunnock and Marsh Warblers a'plenty, both absent here, I had therefore resigned myself to not having today's addition:
69 Cuckoo
calling down by the river, I wonder which species could be on the Cuckoo's hit list' down there, is Robin possible?
KenM
Well-known member
What's your "combined" abode list now H?
halftwo
Wird Batcher
You know, I've no idea, Ken. I don't think I've got more than three or four here which I didn't have on the old list.
A Siskin close by today, but I was 50mtrs from the garden at the time.
Today there are Nuthatches calling - maybe the young are out of the nest - like the Greater 'peckers that are frequenting the garden at the moment. Dispersal time could bring a few more my way in the next month, I guess.
Went out looking for Hobby again today - to no avail - though I did find a Grass Snake, which was great.
