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Garden / Yard List 2024
And further - in some parts of the world, it also issues warning messages that its databases are not so complete and identifications can be wrong.- Jos Stratford
- Post #573
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
It does okay on Chaffinches, but a variety of others it mixes, including calling my Whooper Swans as Cranes last week. It is definitely affected by locations as it will also label calls as rare/semi-rare for your location/date...and +/- it seems to get that correct. Also, if you turn off your...- Jos Stratford
- Post #572
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Maybe it depends where ... repeatedly testing it on my land, I find it frequently misidentifies about 20-30% of calls, and further simply misses another 10-30% (usually far away birds than I can still do, but it's not picking up, but occasionally closer ones too).- Jos Stratford
- Post #570
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
South meets north, in decidedly cold weather, first incoming Lesser Whitethroat and, rather more surprisingly, a very late Waxwing late afternoon - very rare do I see these so late in the spring. Greenfinches in good numbers and Hawfinches continue at the bird table ...and, totally weird, one...- Jos Stratford
- Post #558
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Good wader period, after the Black-tailed Godwits and Common Redshank yesterday and Wood Sandpipers and Greenshank today, a male Ruff on the pool this evening. Also two Snipe, plus Lapwings as always. 106. Ruff- Jos Stratford
- Post #554
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Well, them there poor little Wrynecks ...two days after mine arrived, snow here too! Did hear one calling a little later though. Snow early morning, fair middle day, heavy rain/bright spells now - a right mish mash. Some good birds nonetheless ...two Wood Sandpipers on the house pool early...- Jos Stratford
- Post #553
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Willow Warblers, two arrived and singing. Pool fairly quiet these days, but a pair of Black-tailed Godwits and a Common Redshank today. 101. Willow Warbler- Jos Stratford
- Post #551
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
I can happily confirm he is alive and well, but has relocated to warmer climes up north ... singing Wryneck this morning 👍 And then, taking me to 100, a Swallow through late afternoon. 99. Wryneck 100. Swallow- Jos Stratford
- Post #548
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
By day's end, Greenfinches at the bird table were numbering over 40, a right squabbling racket of birds. Two very nice Hawfinches with them First Lesser Spotted Eagle of the spring late afternoon. 98. Lesser Spotted Eagle- Jos Stratford
- Post #539
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Nice action at my bird table - a growing fkock of Greenfinches now in excess of 30, also bringing in a beefy Hawfinch to dominate the table this morning Rain setting in, but just before one signing Blackcap newly arrived ... 97. Blackcap- Jos Stratford
- Post #535
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Marsh Sandpipers continuing into their third day, the bevy of ducks too, but little migration today - one new migrant arriving, the first Whinchat. 96. Whinchat- Jos Stratford
- Post #532
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Marsh Sandpipers were still present till early afternoon and the full suite of ducks - Wigeon, Teal, Shoveller, Mallard, Goldeneye and Goosander, but perhaps the most impressive birds today were a flyover flock of migrating Cormorants Initially thought they were incoming geese, but instead it...- Jos Stratford
- Post #523
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Very nice period now - new birds every day. Pool by the house is pretty magic at present - Wigeon and Shoveler still present, joined today by a pair of Garganey (and Mallard and Goldeneye), but even better a good bunch of waders, Lapwings and Green Sandpipers as usual, but also one Black-tailed...- Jos Stratford
- Post #518
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Virtually every new species arriving this spring is breaking my earliest ever arrival date - two Tree Pipits today, two weeks early. Also one Osprey breaking my earliest ever and a Kestrel, a rare passage bird for me, but also earlier than I have seen before. Two other new for the year too...- Jos Stratford
- Post #509
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Even better has been the run of mammals in the last days - Weasil in white winter coat still, one Red Squirrel and, star of the lot, return of Lynx a couple of nights ago. Badger most nights too, plus Racoon Dogs, Red Fox and Roe Deers.- Jos Stratford
- Post #501
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Two more today - first Meadow Pipit back and my third ever record of Lesser Black-backed Gull - nine years and two days after the last one :) 86. Lesser Black-backed Gull 87. Meadow Pipit- Jos Stratford
- Post #500
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
A very productive day - male Brambling on my bird table all day (and Greenfinches, Chaffinches, Yellowhammers and Reed Bunting), plus male Hen Harrier from the comfort of my sofa and more duck action - three Shoveler (my seventh ever record), six Wigeon, two Mallard, two Teal and two Goldeneye...- Jos Stratford
- Post #489
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Not in Lithuania at the moment, but they had 25.5 C yesterday! Hottest ever March day by a very big margin (previous hottest was more than a decade ago and only 18 or 19 C)- Jos Stratford
- Post #475
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Cracking day - mass arrival of White Storks - none yesterday, five pairs already atop nests today, with several extras wandering around. Also, coinciding with heavy Chaffinch migration, one Brambling joining a bunch of Greenfinches at my feeders. And if they weren't enough, one male Garganey...- Jos Stratford
- Post #467
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
After being impressed with 34, an even bigger movement today - no less than 90 rather musical Wigeon in a flock today! Was actually a big wildfowl day overall - thousands of White-fronted and Bean Geese overhead the whole day (and the lingering two White-fronted Geese on the floodpool), plus...- Jos Stratford
- Post #447
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Sat out on the verandah after dark this evening - a positive racket of Lapwings in full voice, a Snipe a few times and the cronking of Grey Herons ...but best of all, the haunting booms of the first Bittern of the season echoing across from a lake a kilometre or so distant. Hopefully mine will...- Jos Stratford
- Post #444
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
Update on the day - most noteworthy birds of the day, two White-fronted Geese decided to pitch down in my meadow, then have a nap aside a floodpool - though many thousands pass over each migration season, and indeed hundreds in recent days, these are only the second ever to actually decide to...- Jos Stratford
- Post #442
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Garden / Yard List 2024
I'll have several hundred Redwings through soon ...- Jos Stratford
- Post #437
- Forum: Birds & Birding