Larry Lade
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Great photos, Jos!
Glad to see your black buddy has returned.
Glad to see your black buddy has returned.
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Garden (Yard) List 2012 (14 Viewers)
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KenM
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If you've only got the toe nails, might as well have them manicured
What did you use....a Black Woodpecker...presumably the calcium supplement...would give it more ''bill for the drill''....
Jane Turner
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A good day for ''raps''....multiple sightings of Sprawk plus my 2nd CBuzzard of the year appropriately ''shrink-wrapped'' by the local corvids.....and no.53..male Peregrine
I'd already credited you with Peregrine
Jane Turner
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I had a White-winged gull over y'day. It wasn't my hoped for Glaucous, was probably an 2nd W Iceland, but could possibly have been a leucistic LBBG/Herring. I didn't have bins to hand.
chowchilla
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Just got back from a two day trip to Granite Gorge with non-birding friends. A beautiful peaceful camping spot one hour west of Cairns replete with Mareeba Rock Wallabies everywhere you look. Also had Great Bowerbird, Grey-capped Babbler, Striated Pardalote, Blue-faced Honeyeater, Pied Butcherbird, Pheasant Coucal, Noisy Friarbird, Double-barred Finch, Pale-headed Rosella, Bar-shouldered Dove and lots of amorous Squatter Pigeons; all seen in the camp site as it wasn't really a birding trip. I've known visiting birders to struggle to get Squatters; well Granite Gorge is the place!
A Frill-necked Lizard entertained us running up and down trees as we packed up camp.
Sadly came across a dead Boobook Owl on the side of the Palmerston Highway on the way home (by the very scenic route).
As soon as I stop really trying to add birds at home, I get a Red-necked Crake calling outside Friday night, and finally a Graceful Honeyeater calling out back this evening as I got in from the trip!
63) Red-necked Crake.
64) Graceful Honeyeater.
So much for waiting till winter to get the Crakes...
A Frill-necked Lizard entertained us running up and down trees as we packed up camp.
Sadly came across a dead Boobook Owl on the side of the Palmerston Highway on the way home (by the very scenic route).
As soon as I stop really trying to add birds at home, I get a Red-necked Crake calling outside Friday night, and finally a Graceful Honeyeater calling out back this evening as I got in from the trip!
63) Red-necked Crake.
64) Graceful Honeyeater.
So much for waiting till winter to get the Crakes...
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edenwatcher
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A few list padders:
65. linnet
66. tree sparrow (always welcome)
67. greenshank
Rob
65. linnet
66. tree sparrow (always welcome)
67. greenshank
Rob
Warmed up considerably today, only minus ten, light snow. A couple of additions in my Vilnus garden - three Greenfinches have found their way to the sunflowers, a Fieldfare dropped in for apple offerings.
Vilnius
16. Greenfinch
17. Fieldfare
Vilnius
16. Greenfinch
17. Fieldfare
I fear I would have no feet left, let alone toe nails :-O
Below is their work on a tree stump...
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KenM
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KenM
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Two sightings last year (that's the most sightings of this species, in any one year for me)...that bird was my first for the year....might be the precursor for a few more...
halftwo
Wird Batcher
Cracking morning early on, and, if you ignore the full-throttle-throated Song thrush shouting from the poplar top, the first bird of the day was
57 : Mute swan,
in fact three passing low and close on wheezing wings toward the near-risen sun.
Four Linnets are all that remain of the Linnet roost in the bramble patch, and they took off sometime later, while the Peregrine on the steeple left unseen before the day had properly begun, to be replaced by three Kestrels jousting for supremacy of the steeple with Jackdaws and each other. Before that a Sparrowhawk was circling with the courting Rooks, which now seem to spend much of the day wheeling around high in the low cloud.
Mild today: +6c before long.
57 : Mute swan,
in fact three passing low and close on wheezing wings toward the near-risen sun.
Four Linnets are all that remain of the Linnet roost in the bramble patch, and they took off sometime later, while the Peregrine on the steeple left unseen before the day had properly begun, to be replaced by three Kestrels jousting for supremacy of the steeple with Jackdaws and each other. Before that a Sparrowhawk was circling with the courting Rooks, which now seem to spend much of the day wheeling around high in the low cloud.
Mild today: +6c before long.
KenM
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...three that I'll be lucky to get!....your now pulling away H...much as I expected.
Will have to spend 9 hours by that bloody window now...instead of the normal eight
joannec
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Will have to spend 9 hours by that bloody window now...instead of the normal eight
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3Hahaha47) Peregrine! There is a big monster pylon that I can see from my house. Haven't seen the Peregrine on it for about a year but it flew in today.
dantheman
Bah humbug
One from yesterday - was in the lounge when got called out to the kitchen by the girlfriend - 'what's this little brown bird?'
We had a few last year in the snowy spell, didn't think it was going to happen this year.
47) Meadow Pipit
(The second pic is actually it in next doors garden - was moving too fast and blinds getting in the way, so went up to take pic out of bedroom window)
We had a few last year in the snowy spell, didn't think it was going to happen this year.
47) Meadow Pipit
(The second pic is actually it in next doors garden - was moving too fast and blinds getting in the way, so went up to take pic out of bedroom window)
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Very tidy garden you've got there Dan, do love the upturned bin, discarded cardboard and uncut grass
PS what's with the bars? Didn't know Dartmoor was in Cornwall these days!
PS what's with the bars? Didn't know Dartmoor was in Cornwall these days!
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dantheman
Bah humbug
Very tidy garden you've got there Dan, do love the upturned bin, discarded cardboard and uncut grass
PS what's with the bars? Didn't know Dartmorr was in Cornwall these days!
Just not very garden-proud. And the bars are the blinds. It's not actually that bad around here ...
Just to re-iterate - Meadow Pipit is the first bird actually properly in the garden this year. Had a Robin fleetingly on the fence and a Blue Tit fly through, in addition to a few on the roof I already mentioned ...
joannec
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dantheman
Bah humbug
And today - have cut down the number of hours spent scoping out of the bedroom window (unlike Ken!), so rather surprised to get 2 new birds today.
48) Brent Goose
49) Sandwich Tern
Late morning, as the tide was starting to fall, and just before I was about to go out, had two Brent Goose swim across, and a few minutes later a brief view of a sharp, white winged bird which had to be a Sandwich Tern dropping out of sight ... given that I also couldn't quite decide which Brent Goose they were I jumped in the car and went down to the river for better views - fortunately both were showing well (pics taken from this closer spot, still not that close).
Annoyingly there were also 3 adult Med Gulls asleep on the spit - would have been just out of sight of my window view back home!
48) Brent Goose
49) Sandwich Tern
Late morning, as the tide was starting to fall, and just before I was about to go out, had two Brent Goose swim across, and a few minutes later a brief view of a sharp, white winged bird which had to be a Sandwich Tern dropping out of sight ... given that I also couldn't quite decide which Brent Goose they were I jumped in the car and went down to the river for better views - fortunately both were showing well (pics taken from this closer spot, still not that close).
Annoyingly there were also 3 adult Med Gulls asleep on the spit - would have been just out of sight of my window view back home!
