Garden / Yard List 2024 (9 Viewers)

[gerald762]

A very slow Spring here. Snow last weekend and -5C two nights ago. The chaffinches arrived 3 weeks ago, a robin 2 weeks ago and this week a pair of wagtails. Not very exciting. The bird feeders are still popular. Normally 10 chaffinch, 10 siskin, some hawfinch, some bullfinch, a pair of yellowhammers plus the usual tits etc. This all indicates that very few birds are breeding, not surprising considering the cold!

 

[Richard Prior]

#45. Hobby - went NNE. Quite early one. Ah! And this one was also Garden lifer (in this garden)

Congratulations W, that is quite early for up there, I imagine you're not seeing many dragonflies yet! I've only ever had one Spring record here in 8 years, last May in fact. But I've seen two falcon sp this week, a male Peregrine the other day and a smart Kestrel seems to have taken up residence around us this week, by climbing on a chair (don't tell my wife ) I was able to get a clear view of it perched behind our raspberry canes this afternoon.
First Tree Pipits, Dunnock and Whinchat this morning when I did a walk in the mountains not too far away so hopefully I'll manage a couple of that trio for the Garden List this year....

 

[Bismarck Honeyeater]

A good start this morning, when the Cetti’s Warbler that has an extensive territory, decided to pop down to its border with my garden, and have a little sing. Just my 2nd record this year.

A Swallow mobbing a high Sparrowhawk made me look up, and spot 2x #73 House Martins.

A nice Sunbow seen this morning too.




A briefly singing Treecreeper was also just my 2nd record this year. A strange species here, I see it fairly often, but there is a small gap when they disappear, I assume to breed, before turning up again. I had a family party last year. I say strange because the blank gap seems to be getting earlier year by year. Can they really be breeding so much earlier?



Later a Gull mobbing a couple of single Buzzards made me look up again, and culminated in a kettle of 6 Buzzards, possibly my largest flock.

 

[pete wragg]

Still cold and not many migrants, but 2 new today
108 - Lesser Whitethroat
109 - Sedge Warbler

 

[halftwo]

Second wader after dark on consecutive evenings, this one a

73: Oystercatcher

 

[halftwo]

Garden mega:

74: Whitethroat

singing from a nearby hedge!