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Garden / Yard List 2017 (4 Viewers)

halftwo said:
Thanks, Dan.

I'm off to the Philippines next week - I'll give it another try when I return.

Enforced day at home today - back after abandoning my car in the snow this am.! There's only so far a snow shovel can get you!
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Have fun ... just don't keep a garden list whilst out there. ;)
 
Although our new home is 100metres lower in altitude than our previous place, it's nearer some quite hefty mountains, over which a Griffon Vulture was reported yesterday. So I set up the 'scope after lunch, no vulture so far, but two other local mountain residents spotted enjoying the spring-like conditions. Unfortunately the first paragliders have appeared today too.

38 Song Thrush
39 Willow Tit
40 Lammergeier
41 Golden Eagle

Early for the first Song Thrush, the past 8 years the first one has been between 3rd and 12th March
 
Richard Prior said:
Although our new home is 100metres lower in altitude than our previous place, it's nearer some quite hefty mountains, over which a Griffon Vulture was reported yesterday. So I set up the 'scope after lunch, no vulture so far, but two other local mountain residents spotted enjoying the spring-like conditions. Unfortunately the first paragliders have appeared today too.

38 Song Thrush
39 Willow Tit
40 Lammergeier
41 Golden Eagle

Early for the first Song Thrush, the past 8 years the first one has been between 3rd and 12th March[/QUOTE

You are seeing some fantastic birds at your new home.
I 've seen Griffon Vulture from here but not for some years. Have seen Lammergeier and a Golden Eagle both some years ago several times up right near the border Col du Portalet.
But have a Song Thrush in garden for most of the year, every year! See every day including today .
Another lovely day I sat in garden for over three hours !
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All too technical for me - anyway, this crazy weather means I can't put off starting to dig over our future veg garden anymore, it's mid-February for heaven's sake, I should be looking for divers and rare ducks on the nearby Swiss lakes. Where was I? ...........
Ah yes, whilst digging up oodles of nettle roots etc I heard the alarm calls of some crows and sure enough, perched out on a bare branch beneath the panicking corvids a nice sunbathing

42 Goshawk

A nice reward for all that effort :t:.
Now, where's that Griffon Vulture someone reported? .....................
 
Wow, Richard. What a bird!

Can't compete with that, but just had a much bigger bird cruising the valley like a bomber...

55: Canada Goose.

That's probably all from me until post-Philippines
 
lazza said:
Haha! At last, garden waxwings photo :t:

And fortunately, they managed to avoid species 20 in the list...

20. Sparrowhawk
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Spring is in the air....ladeda dedede dum!

Plenty of activity in the garden over the last week with fighting, singing and smooching all in full swing :)

Anyways, the list has moved on:

21. Collared dove
22. Bullfinch
23. Great spotted woodpecker (over)
24. Skylark (singing above the neighbouring fields, possibly my last year for them, as there will be a housing estate there next year :-C)
25. Long-tailed tit
 
lazza said:
Spring is in the air....ladeda dedede dum!

Plenty of activity in the garden over the last week with fighting, singing and smooching all in full swing :)
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Never mind your personal life Lazza, just stick to telling us about the birds;)

Very jealous of all of you with Waxwings btw.
 
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and would like to start my list by adding a couple of pics.

1. Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
2. Southern Red Bishop
3. Lesser Masked Weaver
 

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Still pretty slow in the garden, fortunately the sea has been particularly good this year so far.

55 Lapwing
56 Kestrel
57 Long-tailed Tit
58 Linnet
59 Sanderling
60 Chaffinch
61 Snow Bunting
62 Little Gull
63 Sparrowhawk
64 Red-breasted Merganser
65 Kittiwake
66 Greylag Goose
67 Shag
68 White-fronted Goose
69 Pochard
70 Barnacle Goose
71 Great Skua
72 Little Auk
73 Red-necked Grebe
74 Slavonian Grebe
75 Skylark
 
Two collared doves front garden tree today sun very bright sky very blue

Always have a couple of collared doves in the garden all year around .
 

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A few visitors this morning.


4. Red-billed Firefinch
5. Long-crested Eagle
6. Laughing Dove
7. Common Bulbul
8. Variable Sunbird
9. Lesser Striped-Swallow
10. Speckled Mousebird
 

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