Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
GANNET !!!!! (Unless a Brown Booby is found locally!)
Flew steadily NW about 1km away in the rain!!!!!
WTVF!!!
Wow, gotta be a first for the Barnsley area H, well done lad!
GANNET !!!!! (Unless a Brown Booby is found locally!)
Flew steadily NW about 1km away in the rain!!!!!
WTVF!!!
GANNET !!!!! (Unless a Brown Booby is found locally!)
Flew steadily NW about 1km away in the rain!!!!!
WTVF!!!
Yes, gobsmacked, and later refound SW of here at a reservoir.
Probably garden bird of the year for me!
That will be contender for garden rarity of the year methinks for the whole thread ... Nice one :t:
How far from the coast are you btw?
Was it an immature H?
A hell of a way - almost exactly mid way between Liverpool and Spurn - c. 100kms - so a Gannet is amazing.
Amazing garden tick.A hell of a way - almost exactly mid way between Liverpool and Spurn - c. 100kms - so a Gannet is amazing.
I thought H's Gannet sighting was surely to be the Garden tick of the year but I reckon I've topped it today. I was in England yesterday for a funeral and got back home at lunchtime from Geneva airport. First job was to top up the feeders and also scatter the cheap birdseed that the Yellowhammers like(lots of millet in it) in front of the house and near the kitchen window. At 4.30 (it was getting dark by then) I got the shock of my birding life to see the Yellowhammers had brought one of their cousins with them!
85 Pine Bunting
Not only a Garden Tick but a lifer to boot! A bit rare in France with no records betwen 2014 and 2016 and just the one record of a wintering pair in the winter of 2017/8. The Italian speaking part of Switzerland has a regular wintering site in recent years and their first of the season turned up at the weekend, maybe this one overshot!
....that must have been a sPINE tingling event Richard!...I've only ever seen one, and not in the garden...we now have parity.:eek!:
Iโm definitely losing my marbles, todayโs bird was of course my second ever P B, we probably saw the same one years ago Ken, Dagenham Chase was it (my kids found the roosting L e Owls more interesting I recall)?
I thought H's Gannet sighting was surely to be the Garden tick of the year but I reckon I've topped it today. I was in England yesterday for a funeral and got back home at lunchtime from Geneva airport. First job was to top up the feeders and also scatter the cheap birdseed that the Yellowhammers like(lots of millet in it) in front of the house and near the kitchen window. At 4.30 (it was getting dark by then) I got the shock of my birding life to see the Yellowhammers had brought one of their cousins with them!
85 Pine Bunting
Not only a Garden Tick but a lifer to boot! A bit rare in France with no records betwen 2014 and 2016 and just the one record of a wintering pair in the winter of 2017/8. The Italian speaking part of Switzerland has a regular wintering site in recent years and their first of the season turned up at the weekend, maybe this one overshot!
Are you likely to get much more with a Pygmy loiteringMy Pygmy Owl still hanging out, not much more this rainy weekend
85 Pine Bunting
Not only a Garden Tick but a lifer to boot! !