KenM
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You have a pedigree site there Steveđ Itâs taken me 37 years to get to 150!
Cheers
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Garden / Yard List 2021 (1 Viewer)
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Cheers
birdmeister
Well-known member
A very cold (25F/-4C) morning yielded one flyover for the list.
24. Ring-billed Gull
24. Ring-billed Gull
dantheman
Bah humbug
It was a party of Long-tailed Tits moving through! I'd already done a few hours walk on local patch so obviously too much excitement.
Today
27) Firecrest moving fast through the back hedge
28) Grey Heron over
Treated to the Meadow Pipit again.
Paul Chapman
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Now that Tier 4 has been tightened and extended nationally, the New Year's Resolution is back out of the window - literally.... So much for spending less time in the garden. I've not left the house or garden for five days now though may attempt a quick walk tomorrow or Monday. In the meantime, a few additions to the garden yearlist:-
23- Sparrowhawk - 5th January
24 - Collared Dove - 6th January
25 - Great Tit - 8th January
26 - Chaffinch - 8th January
27 - Long-tailed Tit - 9th January
28 - Wren - 9th January
29 - Jay - 9th January
30 - Goldfinch - 9th January
31 - Grey Heron - 9th January
Of the more interesting species, Little Egrets relatively frequent with sightings on six days so far.
Today's garden daylist was 26. Quite a good day.
Stay safe all
Paul
23- Sparrowhawk - 5th January
24 - Collared Dove - 6th January
25 - Great Tit - 8th January
26 - Chaffinch - 8th January
27 - Long-tailed Tit - 9th January
28 - Wren - 9th January
29 - Jay - 9th January
30 - Goldfinch - 9th January
31 - Grey Heron - 9th January
Of the more interesting species, Little Egrets relatively frequent with sightings on six days so far.
Today's garden daylist was 26. Quite a good day.
Stay safe all
Paul
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Steve - congratulations on bringing up your hundred, it took me around four years too!
Paul - I average around 22 species per day here at the moment, Iâll treat your 26 as a challenge, perhaps with the âscope set up outside I can match it, but itâs only warmed up to minus 3C by the middle of the day today so maybe Iâll wait for a more comfortable temperature later in the coming week.....
No additions bird - wise but yesterday had a Roe Deer and fox in the garden, a Brown Hare just 400m away on my pm. walk and a distant Chamois on the mountain across the valley from us at dusk.
Paul - I average around 22 species per day here at the moment, Iâll treat your 26 as a challenge, perhaps with the âscope set up outside I can match it, but itâs only warmed up to minus 3C by the middle of the day today so maybe Iâll wait for a more comfortable temperature later in the coming week.....
No additions bird - wise but yesterday had a Roe Deer and fox in the garden, a Brown Hare just 400m away on my pm. walk and a distant Chamois on the mountain across the valley from us at dusk.
26. Song Thrush
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Crumbs, Long-tailed Tits are tough cookies aren't they? Despite the temperatures remaining below zero day and night for about a week now (still minus 9.5C at 11 this morning ) we still have a flock of eleven visiting the fat ball feeders several times a day.
Checking the car was ice-free at 05h30 this morning meant I was in the right place to finally add one of the local resident species to the Garden Life List (No. 106), not before time as I have seen one, and heard others on walks within 1km of home. Our next door neighbours even had one stun itself on their windows 5 years ago and gripped me of by showing me photos of them cuddling it in front of thier fire before they released it đŽ . It's a heard only addition for now, but perhaps I can expect it to make a dawn raid around the feeders if this freeze continues:
Checking the car was ice-free at 05h30 this morning meant I was in the right place to finally add one of the local resident species to the Garden Life List (No. 106), not before time as I have seen one, and heard others on walks within 1km of home. Our next door neighbours even had one stun itself on their windows 5 years ago and gripped me of by showing me photos of them cuddling it in front of thier fire before they released it đŽ . It's a heard only addition for now, but perhaps I can expect it to make a dawn raid around the feeders if this freeze continues:
| 33 Pygmy Owl |
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
To actually see one in action in the garden would be a dream for me too H, but more of a nightmare for a Blue or Marsh Tit of course
.Sudden arrival of bigger numbers of Fieldfare and Blackbird as the snow started this morning, perhaps not unconnected was a patrolling male
| 34 Peregrine Falcon |
As I've mentioned before, I've yet to see an adult female here (just a juv last summer), I'm sure they nest up on the mountains a few kms away, the male seems to winter hereabouts, hunting in and around the valley, but what does the female do? Prey species distinctly reduced up there in winter so I wonder whether males stay roughly territorial all year and females swan off to milder spots where there are plenty of ducks and pigeons etc.............
birdmeister
Well-known member
Made it to the quarter century mark this morning with a heard-only
25. White-breasted Nuthatch
25. White-breasted Nuthatch
birdmeister
Well-known member
And one more this afternoon with two amazingly low
26. Common Ravens
Both were calling away, the resident pair but still a huge delight.
26. Common Ravens
Both were calling away, the resident pair but still a huge delight.
KenM
Well-known member
Don't know how I missed this Richard! Certainly no ''small beer'', in fact worthy of a large one I'd say.
On a grey day of continuous rain, a very fitting Grey Heron flew over and creased the chimney pots, I almost ducked
....no.43.Still have trouble getting my head round these ''Daily'' Legrets, not satisfied with the adjacent stream, they've now taken to feeding on the No-Mann's land woodland ride!! However it's not all gloom and doom, I've been invaded by the Scand/East European hordes of Redwings that are currently stripping my assets, the last time they arrived in double digit numbers 1990.....they brought a ''friend'', thus my eyes will be pealed for the duration!
Just watched a Blackcap in the garden.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Ken: âStill have trouble getting my head round these ''Daily'' Legrets, not satisfied with the adjacent stream, they've now taken to feeding on the No-Mann's land woodland ride!! However it's not all gloom and doom, I've been invaded by the Scand/East European hordes of Redwings that are currently stripping my assets, the last time they arrived in double digit numbers 1990.....they brought a ''friend'', thus my eyes will be pealed for the duration!â
Keep searching through thrush flocks Ken, especially in that Egret-infested âNaumannâs landâ as you should call it,Iâm in the same mindset as I go through the Yellowhammers here, hearing of more Pine Buntings in Europe. I donât know about you, but I sometimes feel like one of those little boys on the Fryâs Five Boys chocolate bars of my childhood: Desperation. Pacification. Expectation. Acclamation. Realisation (birding can include all five of those emotions, though not necessarily in the same order!!).
But unlike me youâre probably all too young to remember that particular confectionery .............
Keep searching through thrush flocks Ken, especially in that Egret-infested âNaumannâs landâ as you should call it
But unlike me youâre probably all too young to remember that particular confectionery .............
KenM
Well-known member
Remembering them I do...just!
Couldnât afford the price tho!...you must have been a âToffâ Richard.
dantheman
Bah humbug
It was a meme or something on social media a year or two back .... (what is social media?, I hear you ask) ... ; -)
KenM
Well-known member
KenM
Well-known member
FWIW Richard, I do remember the packaging (just about) although I never sampled the product. However my wife (younger than I ) was a ânot infrequentâ nibbler of the said and declared it was one of her favourite treats. As she was a Sauf of the River gel and me from the Norf, it may have been promoted more heavily in her area...anyway back to the Thrush âgrillingâRemembering them I do...just!
Couldnât afford the price tho!...you must have been a âToffâ Richard.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Oi watch it young'un! I know what social media are but the other thing you mention I'm not familiar with ("me me" sounds like the orange soon to be ex-World Leader, but meme is a new one, is it what I call a smiley?).
After 15 years' life outside English speaking countries I am even more lost than the average OAP, I had to ask one of my sons what woke, snowflake, Karen meant recently đŽ
