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  1. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    White-tailed Eagle and Rough-legged Buzzard in last days, neither a year bird.
  2. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Na, shove off! ;) Bit quiet here, though caught both White-backed Woodpecker and Sparrowhawk (for ringing) at my feeders in the last couple of days.
  3. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    As is a Glaucous Gull :t:
  4. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Here too, not quite as much as you, but 2-3 cm on my Labanoras plot.
  5. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    24 Crane flying over today, rather late for here.
  6. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    My first one two days ago, gloves and woolly hat time too.
  7. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    My total for Sunday, an hour or so mid-morning ...spent most of the morning demolishing a beaver dam and doing assorted general maintenance. Total is pretty typical for October, most birds already migrated out. Notable by their absence during this count, Hooded Crow and Jackdaw (had been flocks...
  8. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    That is rather similar to a list I could see in an hour or so, albeit perhaps a month or so ago (three or four of those already migrated).
  9. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    We usually refer to flying geese as skeins, though apparently some call the V-formation a wedge, though I have never personally heard this.
  10. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Since you ask, I'd like about 800 m x 500 m +/- :-O But actually, no big issue to me, my main observation area, where my feeders are and I do most of my observations from, is pretty much the size of a standard garden. And since garden birders count stuff from their gardens too, be it some...
  11. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    I had very few hazelnuts this year, partly a poor crop I think, but more due to beavers chomping all the hazel trees last year and the regrowths being still too small. Consequently, had very few Nutcrackers this season, probably my worst year for a while.
  12. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Gee, a half dozen garden-birders crawling out of the woodwork with Crossbills now :) Need a more exclusive club ... hey Richard, how about Nutcrackers? Reckon we might have that one sewed up :t:
  13. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Three :) Seems a good year for them here in the Baltics, getting birds overhead almost daily at present,
  14. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Got the feeding station going again a few days back in readiness for the winter ...and, amidst Nuthatches, Marsh Tits et al, a most wonderful Red-breasted Flycatcher all day today. Naturally not actually using the feeders, but sitting atop stumps and even the bird table to make little sorties...
  15. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Won't be long - they was a rarity when I arrived in Lithuania, now a commonplace bird, breeding in several localities. Still always a good bird to get on the garden list though - I think we have a slightly exclusive club :t:
  16. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Always a red-letter day when a Red-footed Falcon turns up, but not totally unexpected - almost all previous records on my land have been at this time of year. 2004. A female on 14 August. 2013. A juvenile on 4 August 2012 and another juvenile on 11 August. 2014. A mini influx with one...
  17. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Rest assured, Honey Buzzards are very distinctive and never misidentified as the closely related Nutcracker. Its all in the spots you know. Besides, my only UK was the Westleton individual in late November 1985 ...and that was easily unidentified as not a Honey Buzzard on the grounds that all...
  18. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Autumn migration certainly started now, exit of Swifts and White Storks in last days, movements of passerines, etc. Rain grounded a nice flock of 59 White Storks adjacent to my land this morning, gone by afternoon. Black Woodpecker back in my flood forest, sure sign of the end of summer...
  19. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    And right on schedule, the first Nutcracker of the season in the hazels ...a fine individual tapping away on the hazels to full glee 113. Nutcracker
  20. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Nice Death's Head! I have two bee hives, which were empty, but I noticed in the last days are now both occupied by busy bees. I would have no objection if a Death's Head wished to pay one of mine a visit. Still waiting the arrivals of Nutcrackers, should be fairly soon now. In the meantime...
  21. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Not a year bird, but my raptor news on my plot is the successful breeding of Marsh Harrier - in my rapidly developing reedbed, three youngsters flying yesterday. For someone who grew up in the UK at a time when Marsh Harriers were still quite exotic things at the end of special trips across to...
  22. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Three additions, a fine Goshawk spooking Mallard, breeding Marsh Warblers and fly-over Crossbills. 110. Goshawk 111. Marsh Warbler 112. Crossbill
  23. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Nice adult White-tailed Eagle sititng near my cabin on Sunday, but even better a new species for my land - long expected, but no less welcome, a Great Reed Warbler singing in the ever growing reedbeds. First new species since a glut of new records in 2015. 109. Great Reed Warbler
  24. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    My red letters this weekend were painted in butterfleis - found two species that were my personal firsts in Lithuania. For this garden list though, one addition - on territory, one singing Icterine Warbler 108. Icterine Warbler
  25. Jos Stratford

    Garden / Yard List 2017

    Displaying pair of Lesser Spotted Eagles today, joined by adult White-tailed Eagle ...very nice.
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