Garden/Yard List 2019 (3 Viewers)

KenM · Mar 14, 2019

Richard Prior said:
Well, as long as "you're not bitter", as the Guinness ad says (other stouts are of course available ahem)B . Yes, Dunnock it was, a cigar coming your way:t:

You'll have to do better than that Richard!....gave up smoking 47 years ago!

Don't do much ''bitter'' nowadays, however I could (red whine) a lot, If I chose to, but that would be taking the entire farce of adjudication too seriously, and I couldn't do that (well not at the moment). B

Richard Prior · Mar 14, 2019

halftwo said:
Blue Rock Thrush?

Och nae H, I dunnae think the Scots would have a traditional name for one of those, it was a Dunnock, which is absent here between November and (usually)
April.

Yours aye,
Richard

Jos Stratford · Mar 14, 2019

Richard Prior said:
48 Blue-dykie

Chasing ...

42. Woodpigeon, quite a few migrating today
43. Linnet
44. Yellowhammer

KenM · Mar 17, 2019

KenM said:
A real jaw dropper at 10.47am, a flyover garden life 1st....a European Shag (filmed) size and continuous wing beats said all! no.57.

An ERROR on my part, always going to be difficult, a fast flying foreshortening “all” black projectile, picked up at 135 degrees on a 180 degree flight line, with a niggling “abrupt” turn into the wind almost at the end.

Prompted me to review the black dot frames once more, and whilst taking extra frames from the clip, noted that several frames revealed a contrasting pale bar to the secondaries...adding that to the flight jizz would eliminate a Phalacrocorax species and support an equally jaw-dropping Velvet Scoter!

To ERR is supposedly human.....:eek!:

Jos Stratford · Mar 17, 2019

Maybe upload the video?

halftwo · Mar 17, 2019

It's been a long time coming...

59: Great Black-backed Gull

StephenHampshire · Mar 17, 2019

My first Reed Bunting of the year, a male and very smart he lloked too in the evening sun.

Jos Stratford · Mar 17, 2019

Spring gathering pace - many hundred of Bean and White-fronted Geese passing over today, a few Whooper Swans and a very nice pair of immature White-tailed Eagles lingering a while, circling low overhead. Also a flock of six Great White Egrets heading north, two Woodlarks (one singing in good looking habitat) and other bits and bobs.

45. White-fronted Goose
46. White-tailed Eagle
47. Great White Egret
48. Black-headed Gull
49. Woodlark

Richard Prior · Mar 17, 2019

Jos Stratford said:
Spring gathering pace - many hundred of Bean and White-fronted Geese passing over today, a few Whopper Swans and a very nice pair of immature White-tailed Eagles lingering a while, circling low overhead. Also a flock of six Great White Egrets heading north, two Woodlarks (one singing in good looking habitat) and other bits and bobs.

45. White-fronted Goose
46. White-tailed Eagle
47. Great White Egret
48. Black-headed Gull
49. Woodlark

Hah, I'm not letting you get away with it just yet (mind you every time I see one new species lately you see four or five Jos).
Anyway, at dawn this morning, the sweet sound of the first

49 Blackcap

of the year up here, two weeks earlier than last year's first, and a day later than our earliest in 2017. Positively summery yesterday and very balmy this morning, snowing now........................
I suppose your Whopper Swans are Cygnus giganticus?

Jos Stratford · Mar 17, 2019

Richard Prior said:
I suppose your Whopper Swans are Cygnus giganticus?

Oops, giant they were, but not giant

Now edited, thanks.

Good one on keeping level, yonks before Blackcaps get here.

Jos Stratford · Mar 17, 2019

Back in the autumn, I constructed a series of 'shrike piles' - obvious goal being to attract breeding Red-backed Shrikes, but also expecting them to be popular with Whitethroats, etc. After a long winter when the best they could do was offer shelter to a Brown Hare, was rather pleased to see them utilised today on one of the very first days that suitable species are back in the country - influx of returning Yellowhammers in the last days, and one nice male has chosen the biggest as his favourite post, singing from it all day long.

KenM · Mar 17, 2019

Jos Stratford said:
Maybe upload the video?

Before I show the film clip, ranking perhaps on a par with some of my ''better'' shots....:eek!:

Toby Tyke · Mar 17, 2019

halftwo said:
It's been a long time coming...

59: Great Black-backed Gull

Still on my missing list. Expected a flyover on the way to the roost but no joy so far.
Been very slow for the last few weeks.

dantheman · Mar 17, 2019

KenM said:
Before I show the film clip, ranking perhaps on a par with some of my ''better'' shots....:eek!:

Egyptian Goose perhaps?

halftwo · Mar 18, 2019

dantheman said:
Egyptian Goose perhaps?

Doesn't seem to have a duck feel about it.

halftwo · Mar 18, 2019

Up to 60 today, with a small passage of Meadow Pipits past my house.

KenM · Mar 18, 2019

halftwo said:
Doesn't seem to have a duck feel about it.

....a melanistic one :eek!:

dantheman · Mar 18, 2019

halftwo said:
Doesn't seem to have a duck feel about it.

A bit of a tentative guess on one of the photos. Maybe the vid will help!

halftwo · Mar 18, 2019

Two more Waxwings over this morning

dantheman · Mar 18, 2019

dantheman said:
A bit of a tentative guess on one of the photos. Maybe the vid will help!

Thought the bird was flying in the opposite direction to that shown in the video ...

:-O

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