Cheshire Birder
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Raven!!
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Garden (Yard) List 2012 (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter Larry Lade
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chowchilla
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With the recent influx of Kites since just before I went away, all I had to do is make the effort to watch the sky today for 20 minutes or so. Within no time I had a pair of Black (Fork-tailed) Kites and a pair of rather more distant Brahminy Kites and not before time.
83) Black (Fork-tailed) Kite.
84) Brahminy Kite.
83) Black (Fork-tailed) Kite.
84) Brahminy Kite.
The Falcon
Registered Birder
Been gone the whole weekend, so wasn't able to do any birding for a couple of days.
5/14/2012
122. Cedar Waxwing
Another year bird this evening:
123. American Woodcock - flew over yard at dusk. Difficult to get for the yard.
5/14/2012
122. Cedar Waxwing
Another year bird this evening:
123. American Woodcock - flew over yard at dusk. Difficult to get for the yard.
Jane Turner
Well-known member
I've had an Osprey messing about on the tide edge this morning
dantheman
Bah humbug
Jane Turner
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I was seemingly enjoying flushing roosting gulls and cormorants. I've just seen it again
The Falcon
Registered Birder
Not much around this morning, but I did get another yard bird.
124. Savannah Sparrow - heard singing for a few minutes then flew off.
124. Savannah Sparrow - heard singing for a few minutes then flew off.
dantheman
Bah humbug
Back in the UK now (Vianne to Bergerac by car, then flight with the world's worst infamous budget airline, then hitched down from Bristol to Falmouth - flight landed at Bristol Airport 15:30, in the door by 20:30, not bad for uk hitching these days imo ... )
Two additions to the Falmouth list already today
58) Common Swift
59) Whimbrel
A dozen or more Swift over the distant hills and fields, split second views of the Whimbrel over the diminishing patch of mud/river visible between the unfurling leaves of the intervening trees. Thought Whimbrel was going to get away from me, but still a few kicking about down there. A lifetime 'garden' tick.
Two additions to the Falmouth list already today
58) Common Swift
59) Whimbrel
A dozen or more Swift over the distant hills and fields, split second views of the Whimbrel over the diminishing patch of mud/river visible between the unfurling leaves of the intervening trees. Thought Whimbrel was going to get away from me, but still a few kicking about down there. A lifetime 'garden' tick.
dantheman
Bah humbug
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The Falcon
Registered Birder
125. Northern Shoveler - flew over yard.
126. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
126. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
That is not very nice of you
I seem to remember a concerted attempt to identify a fellow flusher on the beaches opposite your abode a year or two back.
Jane Turner
Well-known member
*t !
chowchilla
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An Australian Pipit over today, heading West was a genuine surprise.
Even though I'm on holiday still I've been very busy until now with Spring cleaning and such but had more time today to watch the skies...
85) Australian Pipit.
Even though I'm on holiday still I've been very busy until now with Spring cleaning and such but had more time today to watch the skies...
85) Australian Pipit.
Larry Lade
Moderator
Just had a new yard bird for 2012!
36. Eastern Wood-Pewee
That's not a species we get every year in our yard!
*Checking my records I find that we had one in our yard on May 9, 1995.
** Jane, I think that might be a new one for our listing here.
36. Eastern Wood-Pewee
That's not a species we get every year in our yard!
*Checking my records I find that we had one in our yard on May 9, 1995.
** Jane, I think that might be a new one for our listing here.
Jane Turner
Well-known member
Don't recall if I mentioned the Cuckoo - now also Spotted Flycatcher. 115 from 71 over 39 in
John o'Sullivan
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no birds today but grass snake and slow worm in the garden and common lizard at the Welsh Wildlife center. never seen a lizard in uk before
Jane Turner
Well-known member
and you saw two today!
joannec
Well-known member
Nightingale Update
The Nightingale reported upthread is still around but singing MUCH less which makes me think he's attracted a mate! I'm so pleased. I glimpse him occasionally but they are such secretive birds and the singing window is really quite small. Also it's complicated by the fact that the clump of overgrown blackthorn that "my" Nightingale likes is also liked by a variety of other birds, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock and various tits and at times it can be quite confusing identifying the Nightingales song....a bit of Blackcap mixed in with a bit of Dunnock, Song Thrush and Blackbird sends the mind reeling.........is it.....or isn't it?
I have been involved in the BTO Nightingale survey and taken on three tetrads, including my home tetrad. It's very interesting. The survey started in the middle of April when they first arrive and to start with I found seven! But as the weeks go on, on subsequent visits, they are harder and harder to hear. Part of the aim of the survey is to determine when they stop singing, the thinking is that once they've attracted a mate the singing lessens, unless there is another territory within hearing distance. It is also thought that after the end of May the only birds singing at night are unpaired males. I've learned a lot doing this survey; it's not finished. There are optional nighttime surveys that should be done between midnight and 3 AM; still not sure whether I'll be doing these......don't want to fall in a ditch in the dark.
Sorry for the ramble; in part because there are no new birds seen/heard from my garden. I can report a fledged family of LT tits today and at least 20 common species are nesting in or close by my garden.
The Nightingale reported upthread is still around but singing MUCH less which makes me think he's attracted a mate! I'm so pleased. I glimpse him occasionally but they are such secretive birds and the singing window is really quite small. Also it's complicated by the fact that the clump of overgrown blackthorn that "my" Nightingale likes is also liked by a variety of other birds, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock and various tits and at times it can be quite confusing identifying the Nightingales song....a bit of Blackcap mixed in with a bit of Dunnock, Song Thrush and Blackbird sends the mind reeling.........is it.....or isn't it?
I have been involved in the BTO Nightingale survey and taken on three tetrads, including my home tetrad. It's very interesting. The survey started in the middle of April when they first arrive and to start with I found seven! But as the weeks go on, on subsequent visits, they are harder and harder to hear. Part of the aim of the survey is to determine when they stop singing, the thinking is that once they've attracted a mate the singing lessens, unless there is another territory within hearing distance. It is also thought that after the end of May the only birds singing at night are unpaired males. I've learned a lot doing this survey; it's not finished. There are optional nighttime surveys that should be done between midnight and 3 AM; still not sure whether I'll be doing these......don't want to fall in a ditch in the dark.
Sorry for the ramble; in part because there are no new birds seen/heard from my garden. I can report a fledged family of LT tits today and at least 20 common species are nesting in or close by my garden.
