Garden/Yard List 2020 (4 Viewers)

Larry Sweetland · Mar 25, 2020

Finally nailed Stock Dove on the garden list, by standing on the roof and scoping a hotspot more than 1.5km away.

Worried the occupants of a nearby house might have seen me and thought I was looking through their bedroom window, instead of a mile beyond and over their roof!

halftwo · Mar 25, 2020

Larry Sweetland said:
Finally nailed Stock Dove on the garden list, by standing on the roof and scoping a hotspot more than 1.5km away.

Worried the occupants of a nearby house might have seen me and thought I was looking through their bedroom window, instead of a mile beyond and over their roof!

Ha ha. I've given up worrying about what the neighbours think! I try not to look like I'm nosying though.

RyanI · Mar 25, 2020

Steve Lister said:
If ever you want to sell your house...…….
Even better if it is a bungalow, although with the view I guess it won't be.

Steve

It is a bungalow, just has a nice high vantage point. If I could work out how to add photos on here I would but they all get rejected and I can't be arsed working it out :-O

The last few days have seen a pretty spectacular vismig in the mornings (for here) and follows on from the past few years at the end of March in the right conditions.

Totals over the 3 mornings include 10096 staling, 5723 chaffinch and 1530 siskin. Good birds for the house list included 4 woodlark, hawfinch, 5 brambling, merlin chasing starling flock, 4 red kite (house tick no. 198). All in all, 53 species migrating south including all below.

86 Red Kite
87 Stock Dove
88 Great Spotted Woodpecker
89 Merlin
90 Peregrine Falcon
91 Wood Lark
92 Northern Wheatear
93 Gray Wagtail
94 Gray Heron
95 Common Buzzard
96 European Stonechat
97 Eurasian Bullfinch
98 Eurasian Oystercatcher
99 Song Thrush
100 Hawfinch
101 Lesser Redpoll

Paul Chapman · Mar 25, 2020

Ryan

You simply need to resize the photos to 1600 x 1200 or less and less than 1.91MB if they are a jpeg. Easy enough to do in say Paint or more sophisticated editing software.

All the best

RyanI · Mar 25, 2020

Paul Chapman said:
Ryan

You simply need to resize the photos to 1600 x 1200 or less and less than 1.91MB if they are a jpeg. Easy enough to do in say Paint or more sophisticated editing software.

All the best

:t:

Paul Chapman · Mar 25, 2020

Having been working from home for a week, I was grabbing a thirty minute break at lunchtime in the garden when I finally put the existence of my laptop, WiFi, garden table and extension lead for my moth trap into a coherent order. What followed was five or so hours of working from garden with 22 species - 15 photographed.

Garden year ticks were:-
32 - Buzzard including display - 25 March 2020
33 - Chiffchaff - single moving through - 25 March 2020
34 - Greenfinch - singing male - 25 March 2020

At 5.45pm - I was working from garden late - the list was finished off by a garden tick - I don't keep a garden list but I know that I have not seen the species before from the garden because it is unusual on my patch:-
35 - Greylag Goose - two flying inland - 25 March 2020

Checklist here - https://ebird.org/checklist/S66216815 (which will hide the Peregrine sightings)

All the best

Paul

Warixenjalka · Mar 26, 2020

halftwo said:
Ha ha. I've given up worrying about what the neighbours think! I try not to look like I'm nosying though.

Same here. Which reminded me of climbing the roof early Sunday morning, when neighbors had not yet awakened. o

This morning I stand on garden ten minutes (6.50-7.00 AM) and manage to see three new garden year ticks:

#39. Starling
#40. Black-headed Gull
#41. Northern Lapwing

I noticed that Magpies carrying food away from yard instead eating it right away - So maybe they have chicks already. :eek!:

Farnboro John · Mar 26, 2020

One more from yesterday:

25 March

31. Moorhen (one on the brook just outside the garden)

So far this morning, sunny though nippy with frost but practically no wind (slight Northerly at altitude):

26 March

32. Song Thrush (male singing)
33. Stock Dove (2 over, treetop height, high speed)
34. Mistle Thrush (male singing)

Also:

Mammal 2: Grey Squirrel (hedge beyond brook)

Breakfast time!

John

JWN Andrewes · Mar 26, 2020

Ok, I'm in. Small garden, but decent aspect, in North East Wales.

24th March
1) Greenfinch
2) Goldfinch
3) Great Tit
4) Blue Tit
5) Long-tailed Tit
6) Dunnock
7) Robin
8) Magpie
9) Jackdaw
10) Collared Dove
11) Woodpigeon
12) Stock Dove
13) Lesser Black-backed Gull
14) Herring Gull
15) Chiffchaff

JWN Andrewes · Mar 26, 2020

25th March
16) Wren
17) Mistle Thrush
18) Blackbird
19) Bullfinch
20) Song Thrush
21) House Sparrow
22) Goldcrest
23) Chaffinch
24) Buzzard
25) Cormorant
26) Moorhen
27) Nuthatch
28) Red Kite
29) Mallard

KenM · Mar 26, 2020

A late start this am with a wall to wall blue, generally quiet for me under these conditions, then from behind my tall conifer heading South East at 9.24am, a slow shallow descending glide before downward wing beats....a Marsh Harrier :eek!::eek!: no.62, but more importantly no.147 on my all time garden list, coincidentally saw my 1st (locally) last August circa a mile away over Chingford Plain. The only downside being unable to image it, as the juxtaposition of the trees and window frames coupled with not having enough time to activate the camera unlike Tuesday’s Brent Geese....still I’m not complaining.

Richard Prior · Mar 26, 2020

Two Garden Life ticks in just over a week Ken, steady on lad.
Welcome to the new contributors to the thread, the more the merrier!

KenM · Mar 26, 2020

Richard Prior said:
Two Garden Life ticks in just over a week Ken, steady on lad.

Unnerving times Richard in more ways than one. :eek!: :t:

Farnboro John · Mar 26, 2020

Afternoon update:

Still 26 March

35. Raven (Over North-west)
36. Buzzard (Over East)
37. Coal Tit (Holly in garden - good record, less than annual)

Bird species total today 30 so far. Pretty good for central Farnborough.

John

Paul Chapman · Mar 27, 2020

Today's working from garden marathon produced 23 species - one better than yesterday and with a garden year tick in two Red Kites - a first summer and probably another more worn first-summer travelling together? Pic one is a definite first-summer aged (I hope correctly) on the basis of the pale tips to the underside of the greater coverts.

36 - Red Kite - 26th March 2020.

A few other pics attached.

Checklist here - https://ebird.org/checklist/S66255837

All the best

Paul

Farnboro John · Mar 27, 2020

Early morning update:

Two regular species that had so far eluded me during this era appeared this morning:

27/3

38. Grey Heron (ad over low, following brook upstream)
39. Grey Wagtail (rooftop to brook)

Breakfast now, and then back out!

John

JWN Andrewes · Mar 27, 2020

26th March
30) Carrion Crow
31) Blackcap
32) Grey Wagtail
33) Sparrowhawk

Warixenjalka · Mar 27, 2020

#42. European Robin

Few pics from garden (but nothing like yours Kites and Pere´s :t

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Farnboro John · Mar 27, 2020

27 March

40. Peregrine (Over low, North, just before midday. Too quick for the camera!)

John

KenM · Mar 27, 2020

Farnboro John said:
27 March

40. Peregrine (Over low, North, just before midday. Too quick for the camera!)

John

Nothing wrong with the camera.....

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