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Garden/Yard List 2019 (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter halftwo
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Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
July 12th
68. Whimbrel - just heard flying over, but wonderful as always.
Steve
68. Whimbrel - just heard flying over, but wonderful as always.
Steve
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
Hi hobs!
I got mine just an hour ago:
#63. Hobby :king:
I got mine just an hour ago:
#63. Hobby :king:
halftwo
Wird Batcher
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Let's make that a o
, a nice surprise addition early this morning, heard singing loudly in the cherry tree before melting away unsighted, it was calling from further away 15 minutes later. Only the second I've had here, the previous one was very late May in 2017, so presumably post breeding dispersal this time:74 Cirl Bunting
Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
Just had THE most wanted individual bird I've ever wanted to visit my garden in the garden. Finally after seeing it regularly 200m away for nearly 4 months, our local "Italian Sparrow" has popped in with a couple of its mates to check out our fat balls 😊. Hopefully it'll appear more regularly now.
Is it an Italian Sparrow? I guess we'll never know 😊
Is it an Italian Sparrow? I guess we'll never know 😊
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
See if it likes the Parma Ham fat balls Larry
More and more young Swallows and Swifts about this week, so finally Mr Subbuteo arrived this afternoon:
75 Hobby
In 13 years of living at 1000 or 1100m altutide I've never seen one earlier than 21st June :eek!:
halftwo
Wird Batcher
KenM
Well-known member
Unbe-knowing to me H!...I subsequently found out via a colleague and Twitter, that a record number of different CN’s have been rung this season to the SE of moi between Northward Hill (RSPB) and the Hoo peninsula 100+ so far this season!
:t:
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
I sat on Sauna's porch, when I heard firstly harsh voice, then something similar as Hobby's (or some other raptors) voice, but not quite that. I run to the yard and saw adult and juvenile:
#64. Caspian Terns - fly over. It was close that I dipped this species this year.
#64. Caspian Terns - fly over. It was close that I dipped this species this year.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Harsh voice here too Wari, but Nutcracker not Caspian Tern (still I can dream...).
August is when things start to move again, I've seen the first Common Redstarts and Firecrest since spring, plus just now a smart
76 Willow Warbler
I usually see or hear one or two on Spring passage but missed them this year.
Another feature of early August is the appearance of non-breeding Hobbies, four different individuals in the past three days,they look like 2nd year birds to me (see photo of one of them).
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jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
I've only ever seen one! Great garden bird for sure.
74. Cedar Waxwing They've been in the area a lot, just had to be in outside at the right time to hear them and see them fly over.
The young warblers are starting to come through now, and there are a couple of species I missed in the garden earlier in the year.
halftwo
Wird Batcher
Yes, looks like a 2nd calendar year bird. Interesting. Do you think they're local (ish) or passage birds? Here the young are just fledging, or soon to be fledged, and these families won't move south for another six weeks at least.
Are you seeing Swifts passing too?
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Hobbies
I'm assuming that they're just opportunist wanderers, both here and at our old place (both houses at over 1,000metres alt with no breeding pairs close by that I ever found) the very end of July and first two weeks of August sees this happening, Hobbies with plenty of time on their hands (so no young to feed) plus when I get a decent view always seem to be these immature types with 'washed out trousers' and upperparts not as smart greyish as adults but not the browner, white flecked feathers of juveniles (still too early for fledging by a couple of weeks anyway). No doubt somewhere in Europe there'll be a project to satellite tag Hobbies, it would be interesting to discover the movements of 2nd year birds!
The groups of Swifts stopped passing about a week ago, since then just ones or twos each day.
Cheers
Richard
I'm assuming that they're just opportunist wanderers, both here and at our old place (both houses at over 1,000metres alt with no breeding pairs close by that I ever found) the very end of July and first two weeks of August sees this happening, Hobbies with plenty of time on their hands (so no young to feed) plus when I get a decent view always seem to be these immature types with 'washed out trousers' and upperparts not as smart greyish as adults but not the browner, white flecked feathers of juveniles (still too early for fledging by a couple of weeks anyway). No doubt somewhere in Europe there'll be a project to satellite tag Hobbies, it would be interesting to discover the movements of 2nd year birds!
The groups of Swifts stopped passing about a week ago, since then just ones or twos each day.
Cheers
Richard
halftwo
Wird Batcher
Well, I've just aged the female bird of my pair - she's 2nd calendar year!
Only 5% of breeding females are this young. And that might explain the infertile egg amongst the clutch.
Also, she lifts her right leg off the perch whilst resting - and one of last year's juveniles, post-fledge, had a gammy right leg - it could be that bird - now mated with her father!!
Only 5% of breeding females are this young. And that might explain the infertile egg amongst the clutch.
Also, she lifts her right leg off the perch whilst resting - and one of last year's juveniles, post-fledge, had a gammy right leg - it could be that bird - now mated with her father!!
KenM
Well-known member
An early 6am start this morning (warm and still), as the sun hit the Ash tree a couple of movements where I logged Willow Warbler, then lower down in the Hawthorn two more movements, hope you'll forgive my ''usual'' high resolution shots , both in the space of two minutes, Common Whitethroat and Garden Warbler, should put me on 77.
, both in the space of two minutes, Common Whitethroat and Garden Warbler, should put me on 77.Attachments
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
A nice double whammy there Ken, every time I think I may have a skulking Whitethroat or Garden Warbler in the hawthorn edging our field it turns out to be a female/juv Blackcap :-C
