Garden (Yard) List 2012 (2 Viewers)

Larry Lade · Jan 2, 2012

I was gone from home all day yesterday participating in a Christmas Bird Count over at Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, so no 2012 birds from the yard. Only bird seen today as I compose is:

1. American Goldfinch (early morning)

* I did however get 45 species for 2012 by doing the CBC!

Added a few more "yard birds" for 2012:

2. Black-capped Chickadee
3. Downy Woodpecker
4. Northern Flicker
5. Red-bellied Woodpecker
6. Northern Cardinal
7. House Sparrow
8. White-breasted Nuthatch
* That's all for today, January 2nd

KenM · Jan 2, 2012

halftwo said:
I got 89 out of 120. But a mega amount of new species, including Marsh harrier, Red-throated diver, Great white egret and common tern.

If I've done the maths correctly? you achieved a 75% return for the year(same as Jane) on your all time total of a 120 (same as mine!). With 2 new garden ticks for me against your 4?, I'm obviously slacking :-C I can see the ''words'' of yester-year, which appeared on my school reports with unfailing regularity ''Could do better''.....lets see what the year brings and may the best ''guy'' win.

halftwo · Jan 2, 2012

Can't believe I'm level-pegging with Jane, now on 34 after the Linnet roost at dusk - seems they have taken up the bramble patch as a dormitory - never see them during the day.

Edit: Here's a link to a couple of photos taken in green.

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=96749&highlight=halftwo's

KenM · Jan 2, 2012

I've done the maths...am now on 33.....must do better!

joannec · Jan 2, 2012

halftwo said:
............. my first day back in mine started REALLY well - as a bird that I failed to get all 2011 made a fly-by early on - being the very first finch of the year:

Common Crossbill !!

.

Excellent start!

What a great idea to upload photos of our gardens, I'll do it later. Santa brought me a new computer and I haven't yet figured out how to do it, it's a different method to the old one.

Last year my total was 87 out of my all time total of 107, which if I've done the maths correctly is 81%.

My list so far in order:

1)Rook
2)House Sparrow
3)Blue Tit
4)Great Tit
5)Magpie
6)Wood Pigeon
7)Chaffinch
8)Herring Gull
9)Redwing
10)Jackdaw
11)Buzzard
12)Cormorant
13)Pheasant
14)Fieldfare
15)Blackbird
16)Sparrowhawk
17)Jay
18)Robin
19)Starling
20)Dunnock
21)Green Woodpecker
22)Greenfinch
23)Goldfinch
24)Wren
25)Stock Dove
26)Tawny Owl
27)C Crow
28)Great Spotted Woodpecker
29)Coal Tit
30) BH Gull

Jane Turner · Jan 2, 2012

35 (17/13) Song Thrush coming into roost in the back garden.

joannec · Jan 2, 2012

Here are pictures of my inland rural Sussex garden. It's about 15 miles from the coast as the crow flies and about 7 miles from Ashdown Forest and is on a migration route. Big skies, farmland and woodland nearby.

Spotter · Jan 2, 2012

Was at Dunham Massey on 1st Jan but from home today saw the following

1. Kestrel
2. House Sparrow
3. Blackbird
4. Wood Pigeon
5. Robin
6. Tree Sparrow

halftwo · Jan 2, 2012

joannec said:
Here are pictures of my inland rural Sussex garden. It's about 15 miles from the coast as the crow flies and about 7 miles from Ashdown Forest and is on a migration route. Big skies, farmland and woodland nearby.

Lovely, Joanne. Very rural and rolling.

Cheshire Birder · Jan 2, 2012

halftwo said:
Will try to upload some photos later today, but I just had to let you gardeners out there know that my first day back in mine started REALLY well - as a bird that I failed to get all 2011 made a fly-by early on - being the very first finch of the year:

Common Crossbill !!

Total still in the twenties - and it was zero centigrade this am.

Nice one H!

CB

Cheshire Birder · Jan 2, 2012

joannec said:
Here are pictures of my inland rural Sussex garden. It's about 15 miles from the coast as the crow flies and about 7 miles from Ashdown Forest and is on a migration route. Big skies, farmland and woodland nearby.

Lovely views Joannec :t:

CB

Cheshire Birder · Jan 2, 2012

KenM said:
How did your year's stats. compare against your overall total garden list?

65 species last year compared to a total garden list of approx 75 species. Not really added up my garden life list.

CB

borealowl47 · Jan 2, 2012

No garden and not much of yard.:-O

1.Black-capped Chickadee

my yard

chowchilla · Jan 3, 2012

Another 20 minutes out front despite having a busy day paid off with another 'garden' first in the form of a Yellow-spotted Honeyeater calling from the forest. This was followed a few minutes later by a calling Cicadabird from the same direction; only the second ever!

I could get used to this 'standing out the front' lark as it's clearly the place to be to hear forest birds and watch the sky for flyovers, even if it is uncomfortable in the attention it garners from the neighbours: a woman from next door approached me as I stood there to ask me what I was doing. I told her I was birdwatching (as if that sounded like a normal thing to do standing where I was in a carpark when such prime habitat was only a few hundred metres away). To my relief she immediately understood and began enthusing about her own yard birds! I'd hastily added I was taking part in an online 'competition' to see as many birds as possible from one's property; yes I know it isn't a competition really but I had to make what I was doing seem in some way normal!

Whilst we stood there, as if on cue, a passage of over 100 Rainbow Bee-eaters flew over, which I duly pointed out, even though we could barely see them with the naked eye, so high up were they.

There's still lots of common stuff which hasn't shown yet (where on earth are our resident Brush Turkeys gone?) and my new-found strategy for finding stuff (even if it does make me feel uncomfortable) gives me optimism for a good year total.

24) Yellow-spotted Honeyeater.
25) Cicadabird.
26) Rainbow Bee eater

Back at work tomorrow, so maybe nothing new will be added until Sunday.

dantheman · Jan 3, 2012

1) Tawny Owl - heard on the night of the 1st

From the bedroom window on the morning of the 2nd -

2) Herring Gull
3) Blue Tit
4) Magpie
5) Mute Swan 12
6) Little Egret 2
7) Coot
8) Black-headed Gull
9) Goldfinch
10) Redshank 1
11) Starling
12) House Sparrow
13) Carrion Crow
14) Pied Wagtail
15) Curlew 1
16) Mistle Thrush

halftwo · Jan 3, 2012

Just come back in from the garden. Blowing a gale all day, things generally quiet. Added six to take the total to:

40

dantheman · Jan 3, 2012

Another brief scan this afternoon, after the wind and rain had abated, turned up the goods -

17) Mallard c.10
18) Lesser Black-backed Gull
19) Greenshank 1

And going out to the car

20) Great Black-backed Gull

1 flew over

joannec · Jan 3, 2012

halftwo said:
Just come back in from the garden. Blowing a gale all day, things generally quiet. Added six to take the total to:

40

Much better than me today, force 11 gale off the Sussex coast, trees blown down around here and all the birds were hiding so nothing to add.|

|

Jane Turner · Jan 3, 2012

I couldn't see the sea today - through sand blow and salt caked windows...(and the observatory was vibrating alarmingly) so Little Gull and Gannet will have to wait a bit!

dantheman · Jan 3, 2012

Forgot one already (should have been in at no.17)

21) Jackdaw, afternoon of the 2nd

Garden (Yard) List 2012 (2 Viewers)

Moderator

Well-known member

Wird Batcher

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Attachments

Well-known member

Wird Batcher

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Darrell Neufeld

Well-known member

Bah humbug

Wird Batcher

Bah humbug

Well-known member

Well-known member

Bah humbug

Similar threads

Users who are viewing this thread