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Garden/Yard List 2020 (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter halftwo
- Start date
Paul Chapman
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Welsh Peregrine
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First Stock Doves for the garden, two on the lawn feeding on spilt seed from the feeder. Thursday added one to the “inside the house” list, a Long-tailed Tit was too bold, entered through the patio door, but allowed itself to be captured easily, and the regular pair have been seen since. More sightings of Coal Tit on the feeders yesterday than normal, wonder if it had any link to the passage on the Welsh islands? House on the Wirral ridge, with a distant view to Moel Famau.
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in a global show of unity against coronavirus.
A ring is being put on the calendar to designate April 5 as the Great Back Yard Birdwatch when tens of thousands of nature lovers locked down around the world by the pandemic will be tallying the wildlife they see.
Whether it is those in self-isolation recording garden birds from inside their homes, or those venturing outdoors on socially-spaced exercise walks, the hope is to celebrate the wonders of wildlife with spring reaching northern climes and autumn arriving in the southern hemisphere.
From Alaska to Zanzibar, nature lovers are being urged to compile checklists, take photographs and share stories of their encounters with birds and other creatures, both great and small, on the BirdForum platform and with the Self Isolating Bird Club.
BirdForum – the net’s largest birding community – has joined forces with the social media group set up by wellknown television presenter Chris Packham to lift spirits, combat loneliness and connect with wildlife from a safe distance.
On both sides of the Atlantic migrant species are now arriving from their wintering grounds to seek out nesting territories. In Europe, wheatears, flycatchers and hirundines are navigating the Sahara to start making landfall in coming weeks.
Their journeys are being mirrored through the Americas, with brightly coloured wood-warblers, tanagers and hosts of shorebirds on the move. Nature’s colourful kaleidoscope is also being accentuated by plants coming into flower and butterflies, bees and other insects on the wing.
Living in a time of pandemic does not stop people enjoying the sights and gaining the physical and mental health benefits of connecting with the natural world, even while having to stay indoors.
Over coming days, BirdForum will continue bringing you more news of the Great Back Yard Birdwatch and how you can post pictures, checklists and personal accounts on our platform as well as the Self Isolating Bird Club’s Twitter and Facebook feeds.
We also hope to forge links with wildlife organisations around the world to show that nature is the best medicine. Please adhere to the regulations being laid down in your country regarding safe-distancing and self-isolation.
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A ring is being put on the calendar to designate April 5 as the Great Back Yard Birdwatch when tens of thousands of nature lovers locked down around the world by the pandemic will be tallying the wildlife they see.
Whether it is those in self-isolation recording garden birds from inside their homes, or those venturing outdoors on socially-spaced exercise walks, the hope is to celebrate the wonders of wildlife with spring reaching northern climes and autumn arriving in the southern hemisphere.
From Alaska to Zanzibar, nature lovers are being urged to compile checklists, take photographs and share stories of their encounters with birds and other creatures, both great and small, on the BirdForum platform and with the Self Isolating Bird Club.
BirdForum – the net’s largest birding community – has joined forces with the social media group set up by wellknown television presenter Chris Packham to lift spirits, combat loneliness and connect with wildlife from a safe distance.
On both sides of the Atlantic migrant species are now arriving from their wintering grounds to seek out nesting territories. In Europe, wheatears, flycatchers and hirundines are navigating the Sahara to start making landfall in coming weeks.
Their journeys are being mirrored through the Americas, with brightly coloured wood-warblers, tanagers and hosts of shorebirds on the move. Nature’s colourful kaleidoscope is also being accentuated by plants coming into flower and butterflies, bees and other insects on the wing.
Living in a time of pandemic does not stop people enjoying the sights and gaining the physical and mental health benefits of connecting with the natural world, even while having to stay indoors.
Over coming days, BirdForum will continue bringing you more news of the Great Back Yard Birdwatch and how you can post pictures, checklists and personal accounts on our platform as well as the Self Isolating Bird Club’s Twitter and Facebook feeds.
We also hope to forge links with wildlife organisations around the world to show that nature is the best medicine.
· Please adhere to the regulations being laid down in your country regarding safe-distancing and self-isolation.
in a global show of unity against coronavirus.
A ring is being put on the calendar to designate April 5 as the Great Back Yard Birdwatch when tens of thousands of nature lovers locked down around the world by the pandemic will be tallying the wildlife they see.
Whether it is those in self-isolation recording garden birds from inside their homes, or those venturing outdoors on socially-spaced exercise walks, the hope is to celebrate the wonders of wildlife with spring reaching northern climes and autumn arriving in the southern hemisphere.
From Alaska to Zanzibar, nature lovers are being urged to compile checklists, take photographs and share stories of their encounters with birds and other creatures, both great and small, on the BirdForum platform and with the Self Isolating Bird Club.
BirdForum – the net’s largest birding community – has joined forces with the social media group set up by wellknown television presenter Chris Packham to lift spirits, combat loneliness and connect with wildlife from a safe distance.
On both sides of the Atlantic migrant species are now arriving from their wintering grounds to seek out nesting territories. In Europe, wheatears, flycatchers and hirundines are navigating the Sahara to start making landfall in coming weeks.
Their journeys are being mirrored through the Americas, with brightly coloured wood-warblers, tanagers and hosts of shorebirds on the move. Nature’s colourful kaleidoscope is also being accentuated by plants coming into flower and butterflies, bees and other insects on the wing.
Living in a time of pandemic does not stop people enjoying the sights and gaining the physical and mental health benefits of connecting with the natural world, even while having to stay indoors.
Over coming days, BirdForum will continue bringing you more news of the Great Back Yard Birdwatch and how you can post pictures, checklists and personal accounts on our platform as well as the Self Isolating Bird Club’s Twitter and Facebook feeds.
We also hope to forge links with wildlife organisations around the world to show that nature is the best medicine. Please adhere to the regulations being laid down in your country regarding safe-distancing and self-isolation.
Details and more to follow.
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
27th March
34) Coal Tit
35) Rook
34) Coal Tit
35) Rook
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Nice Treecreeper JW!
Still got 21 Brambling here but little change otherwise, expecting snow down to our altitude tomorrow night:eek!:
Still got 21 Brambling here but little change otherwise, expecting snow down to our altitude tomorrow night:eek!:
That's great! I'll try and make a list of whatever I see in the next house.
Paul Chapman
Well-known member
After a concerted effort in the back garden today produced simply a Redwing for my lockdown garden list, I ended up bringing the scope into the house and trying scoping the countryside to the south. In addition to a couple of flying Little Egrets, three garden year ticks including two garden ticks - you can tell I've never really kept a garden list before:-
38 Stock Dove 28 Mar 2020 (garden tick but breeding site visible from the house in the distance)
39 Common Kestrel 28 Mar 2020
40 Mandarin Duck 28 Mar 2020 (garden tick - an adult drake that has been in the area a while in flight with a drake Mallard)
Not really a day for photography but I managed a couple of pics of a few bits.
All the best
Paul
38 Stock Dove 28 Mar 2020 (garden tick but breeding site visible from the house in the distance)
39 Common Kestrel 28 Mar 2020
40 Mandarin Duck 28 Mar 2020 (garden tick - an adult drake that has been in the area a while in flight with a drake Mallard)
Not really a day for photography but I managed a couple of pics of a few bits.
All the best
Paul
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Some nice photos starting to appear on the thread (plus mine and Wari's efforts too 8-P), I heard one or possibly two Siskin this morning, they were so rare in winter here, just one bird in December and a couple of sightings of one and then two on just two days in February, so where were they? I get the impression they were a lot less numerous for some of you in UK, what about elsewhere in Europe, anybody?
Brambling on the other hand were well represented, or rather, are - still c50 around today!
Brambling on the other hand were well represented, or rather, are - still c50 around today!
Paul Chapman
Well-known member
Less concerted effort today but a couple notched up in continuing cold blustery northerlies:-
41 Meadow Pipit - a flock of thirty - 29 Mar 2020
42 Great Spotted Woodpecker - flying through the garden - 29 Mar 2020
Change of wind direction next week........
All the best
41 Meadow Pipit - a flock of thirty - 29 Mar 2020
42 Great Spotted Woodpecker - flying through the garden - 29 Mar 2020
Change of wind direction next week........
All the best
KenM
Well-known member
No ticks today even with an 8-2pm lockdown, very slow throughout the day albeit interspersed with some good birds. A pair of Blackcap first thing plus a pair of Mandarin Duck flying over the house (West-East) and creasing the chimney pot! (first time I've witnessed Mandarin going anywhere other than North-South or vice versa. After an almost Winter's Redwing famine..several flocks with one holding twenty two birds! Two Starlings East...always welcome as they're not exactly common hereabouts. A female Kestrel (3rd for year), then Lesser-spot. over the house followed several minutes later by a Gos low over the ride, then a stunning male Sprawk perched briefly atop peanut feeder, a Red Kite and a probable (can't tick it):-C Hawfinch outback. Resumed ''station'' after an hours excercise (walk), where I threw in the towel at 5.30 with my first Buzzard of the day! (considering I had almost double digit sightings yesterday :eek!
I don't think they like strong gusting winds as we had today.
I don't think they like strong gusting winds as we had today.Attachments
Farnboro John
Well-known member
A slow weekend with the strong North wind but yesterday afternoon a brief watch picked up a mixed flock of gulls heading North into the teeth of the gale, 3 LBBG, 2 HG and:
41. Common Gull (10+ North)
Quite pleased with that as I was wondering if they'd all cleared off already.
John
41. Common Gull (10+ North)
Quite pleased with that as I was wondering if they'd all cleared off already.
John
Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
Yes. My only Redpoll was flying over the house while I was approaching the house from the street.
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Yes, our Common & Black-headed have dried up up here. I've had Fieldfare & Redwing locally over the past week, but none from the garden, so may have missed the boat with them for now too.
30th March
44) Siskin
Farnboro John
Well-known member
We have Black-headed colonies at Fleet Pond and Moor Green so get plenty of overspill from those. Still plenty of big gulls around too. Redwings all gone, haven't had a house Fieldfare this winter.
John
jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
18 American Robin
Woken at 630 by the first dawn chorus of spring. It was scrappy, and not a diverse chorus (all American Robins, unless the passing croaking Raven counts!), but it was lovely.
Popped outside to listen, and saw one hopping about in the leaf litter patches that have appeared in the receding snow.
Woken at 630 by the first dawn chorus of spring. It was scrappy, and not a diverse chorus (all American Robins, unless the passing croaking Raven counts!), but it was lovely.
Popped outside to listen, and saw one hopping about in the leaf litter patches that have appeared in the receding snow.
