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  1. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Would that have been the same day as the Aquatic Warbler at Church Norton Paul ? That was a 2 UK tick day for me I recall ( I think I did it on my bike from home in Selsey too!). It’s snowing and getting dark here now so the curtain’s coming down on a pretty good garden listing year, the seventh...
  2. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Smart looking birds, the mild weather has prompted one to start singing here in recent days, Green and Black Woodpeckers getting more vocal now as well. It seems a few trees have either fallen or been chopped right down on the valley floor, meaning that I can see a 50m stretch of the river as it...
  3. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    They certainly are Frank, nice one!
  4. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Blimey, both you and Frank in France now, it’s an invasion! Whooper Swan is a regular winterer in Switzerland, Bewick’s also, but in diminishing numbers. In France down towards the Camargue they get wintering Bewick’s and of course in central France, Lac d’Orient etc. You may not know this, but...
  5. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Yes, and Whooper, I guess we’ll have to be Scrooge - like on this occasion, we can’t risk having the er, string - free reputation of the thread called into question ;)
  6. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    I was going to say that in the Spirit of Christmas I‘ll give you Great Egret Frank, as at this time of year it’s unlikely to be anything else in central Switzerland. BUT, I see a Little Egret is also in the neighbourhood, seen at Bottingen ZH, so you need to get your son to be more thorough in...
  7. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Another good year for you Jos, is 144 your best ever total?
  8. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Another gloomy day here in the rain and cloud, some of the mid-altitude ski resorts will be starting to worry that all that snow last week will be washed away in the next few milder days.... A good day to finish off the blackberry jam making, 29 jars in the end! A male Crossbill brightened my...
  9. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Indeed, what a nice surprise W, especially in such an urban setting! Only surprise here was a vaguely familiar call in the sky yesterday, looking up I was confronted with sight of THREE Golden Eagle circling around together, I'm not sure whether it's the local pair and this year's offspring, one...
  10. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Potential number 90 frustratingly close today, having found 4 Alpine Accentor pottering about on the lane about 1km from home yesterday, I went out in the heavy falling snow this afternoon to see if they were still there. Before I’d even reached the farm 150m from our garden I spotted something...
  11. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Hopefully that’ll ‘Spur you on‘ to try again tomorrow Steve ;)
  12. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Beautiful view Jos. Pretty wintry here too though with the cloud we can’t see very far. Can’t match your Yellowhammer totals but at least 40 coming to feed today with assorted finches. Had my breakfast by candlelight as the power cut off ( luckily I’d just brewed my coffee before it went off :)).
  13. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    You're nearly at the 90 mark like me Ken, what's the most likely species to get you there? Here I'm missing Water Pipit and Rock Bunting but it's getting late in the year for either now..
  14. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    That is one ginormous hedge Euan!
  15. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Still trying not to blame my missing the Geneva Surf Scoter on my wish to stay relatively 'Green' with my birding (I had neen waiting for my wife to return to work there after her week off that coincided with its stay :mad:. I ditched my principles and drove to the village and back to post a...
  16. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Finally free of all the important winter preparation tasks and maintenance, today was to be the day I would be able to get down to Geneva to see the long-staying (well, a week) Surf Scoter, which would be a rare lifer for me. You guessed, it wasn't seen yesterday nor today, so I have been 'Mr...
  17. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    I am in the Team Nikon Cooplix Wari, number P950, my arms were aching after all these years carrying a Canon with a heavy Sigma telephoto lens attached!
  18. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    I know things are always bigger in the US of A, but a Wren that's bigger than a Shrike, I never knew! Really cold with snow flurries this morning so I'm trying out my new toy/Christmas/Birthday present for the next five years from the warmth of the kitchen. Yes, I've finally joined the 'Bridge...
  19. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Ken, I'll see you, and raise you one, as I believe the poker players say:cool:. Two for the year in the space of 90 minutes this chilly morning, Storm Frederico blasted through here overnight, leaving new snow down to about 1300m and cold air behind him. This is the sort of event that brought me...
  20. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Congratulations on getting your century Andy!
  21. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    I wonder if some nearby Hazel Hen will come and feed under mine one day……..
  22. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Good stuff BM! Here it’s been rain, rain and more rain for nearly 3 weeks now but it was a bit colder overnight it would appear, here’s the scene at dawn ( no Yeti footprints though ;)) The first snowplough lorry of the winter just passed so I suppose the Chiffchaff on 3 November will be the...
  23. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    I like the French words for serendipity: ‘happy chance‘. :)
  24. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Snow on the ground here this morning producing an immediate increase in seed eaters and the Yellowhammer count got up to 16 by dusk. A single female Siskin is hanging around so I nearly overlooked a female Serin in the gloom late afternoon, our first ever November record.
  25. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    That’s a rotten situation to be in Steve, if I have a similar experience here I promise to not count Goosander, even though the alternative RBM is even rarer for me here than it is for you in Leics. Edit: Probably not as rare for us as for you Steve, I had forgotten that two female Red-breasted...
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