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Garden/Yard List 2016 (4 Viewers)

Return of Savi's Warbler to my reeds - first ever singing last spring, one today in same place again in song. Bittern still booming, Moorhen in their somewhere.


93. Cuckoo
94. Savi's Warbler
95. Sedge Warbler
96. Red-backed Shrike
 
Nice weekend:

Friday
#33. Osprey flyover

Saturday (rain allday)
#34. Brambling female. I saw her couple of times when she visits priefly at under the feeder with several Chaffinches.

Sunday (sunny)
#35. Song Thrush sang nearby.
#36. Redstart couple checked nest box. Maybe same couple which are bred on the same nest box before.
#37. Wryneck shouts from neighbours tree.
#38. Raven, flyover with harassed by crow.

This morning
#39. Barnacle Goose, 14 flyovers.
 
halftwo said:
Out a couple of 100 mts from my house last night & saw a Moorhen on the ponds there.
It only takes a very quiet morning and a loud "preep". I'm ever hopeful.
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I've been playing this game too! Still waiting for the song sparrows by the lake to catch the wind blowing in the right direction. Northern Waterthrushes arrived in the area this weekend too, and they have some powerful lungs too. Good luck!
 
And me . . . there's usually Song Thrush and Chiffchaff singing within earshot of the house, but not this year yet. Failing this, should get Chiffy with post-juvenile dispersal in Aug, and Songy on migration in late Sept.
 
Two new migrants for me this morning:

59) Lesser Whitethroat in the hedge
60) Hobby fast through north....like to think is destined for Holmfirth, H.
 
dantheman said:
Just got back from a couple of hours driving lesson with the girlfriend to hear and then see 8 Swifts circling overhead. Summer!
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Great. I have been given two Swift boxes by SOS, Dan. They have been up for two years but no takers (apart from Starlings!) so far. I'm playing the tape....fingers crossed for me everyone that the Swifts will decide they are Des Res. Hope so.
 
Duly crossed.
When I was a lad we had Swifts (as well as Starlings & Sparrows) in our loft.
I used to crawl into the claustrophobic dusty edges to see the nests - amazing other world.
 
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