Garden/Yard List 2019 (2 Viewers)

jasperpatch

Amy, Brit in Quebec.

• Feb 3, 2019

• #161

Warixenjalka said:

Looks like I'm "neck and neck" with Jasperpatch. :t:

Amy, how much you have snow in Quebec? Are we "neck and neck" with that also? :-O

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We'll likely be neck and neck til Spring I should think Waxy!

Just measured and there is just over 50cm on the back deck currently, though some of that may have slid off the roof. Its snowing again now, and there's more in the forecast - definitely a bumper year, though I think we've had heavier.

 

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birdmeister

Well-known member

• Feb 3, 2019

• #162

A small flock of

27. Lesser Black-backed Gull (f)

were a good sunset addition. I'm happy to have these pinned down early, as they are common at the nearby reservoir but unpredictable as yard flyovers.

Also, thanks Ken for your "overseas insight" on ravens. I was not aware of a similar pattern in the UK.

 

edenwatcher

Well-known member

• Feb 4, 2019

• #163

30. buzzard (why did that take so long?)
A moderate snowfall produced an influx of thrushes on our glut of windfall apples including
31. mistle thrush
The minimum 24 fieldfares were more spectacular however!

Rob

 

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Richard Prior

Halfway up an Alp

• Feb 4, 2019

• #164

Lovely wintry pics EW.
We returned from our trip Down Under yesterday to find a lot of snow here, I measured it this morning, around 70 to 75cms deep around the lawn feeder and it was minus 8° at 9am, a far cry from the 32° in Brisbane just 48 hours before!
So I have some catching up to do, a group of twelve

29 Alpine Chough

getting me underway again. Roll on Spring I say:t:

 

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birdmeister

Well-known member

• Feb 4, 2019

• #165

I enjoyed no less than five new species this afternoon to put me over 30 for the year.

28. Pileated Woodpecker (f)
29. Ring-billed Gull (f)
30. Yellow-rumped Warbler
31. Brown-headed Cowbird (f)
32. Rock Pigeon (feral) (f)

The Pileated Woodpecker was only about my fifth yard record, all of them seen only in flight.

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Feb 5, 2019

• #166

edenwatcher said:

30. buzzard (why did that take so long?)
A moderate snowfall produced an influx of thrushes on our glut of windfall apples including
31. mistle thrush
The minimum 24 fieldfares were more spectacular however!

Rob

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One and three respectively, visits to the garden for the Thrushes in 36 years (although flyovers are a little more frequent). My “bogey” regular at the moment is Goldcrest! Still hasn’t occurred, yet seemingly, about in the woods outback, no apparent rhyme or reason.

Ken

 

halftwo

Wird Batcher

• Feb 5, 2019

• #167

KenM said:

One and three respectively, visits to the garden for the Thrushes in 36 years (although flyovers are a little more frequent). My “bogey” regular at the moment is Goldcrest! Still hasn’t occurred, yet seemingly, about in the woods outback, no apparent rhyme or reason.

Ken

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Mine, too, Ken.

 

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birdmeister

Well-known member

• Feb 5, 2019

• #168

One surprise and one expected bird this evening.

33. Belted Kingfisher (f)

was the big surprise, especially for the time of year! It is likely just my third yard record, with both others being in Aug/Sept. I think I had this on my "expected" list when the year began, but I really wasn't sure if I'd get one this year.

34. Common Merganser (f)

was a more normal addition for early February.

 

halftwo

Wird Batcher

• Feb 6, 2019

• #169

52 : Mallard...

Rather overdue - a pair past this am - & a second LBBG.

 

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Steve Lister

Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.

• Feb 6, 2019

• #170

February 6th.

49. Kestrel - female flew west
50. Skylark - flew west singing

Steve

 

Paul Chapman

Well-known member

• Feb 6, 2019

• #171

Two recent additions - Chaffinch (31) on 2nd February & Canada Goose (32) this morning 6th February.

All the best

 

Richard Prior

Halfway up an Alp

• Feb 7, 2019

• #172

Alpine Chough was no.30,not no.29(must be the jet lag affecting my brain).

A solitary

31 Long-tailed Tit

a welcome sight early this morning, folowed by another singleton:

32 Woodpigeon

scarce here in the depths of winter, it was March before we saw the first one of the year in 2018

 

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Toby Tyke

Well-known member

• Feb 8, 2019

• #173

Couple of hours vis miging from the bedroom window.

49 stock dove
50 rook
51 jackdaw

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Feb 9, 2019

• #174

Fast North and low over the canopy....Mandarin Duck. no.51.

 

Richard Prior

Halfway up an Alp

• Feb 9, 2019

• #175

KenM said:

Fast North and low over the canopy....Mandarin Duck. no.51.

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Nothing as exotic for me, but another one that I didn't see before March last year:

33 House Sparrow

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Feb 9, 2019

• #176

Richard Prior said:

Nothing as exotic for me, but another one that I didn't see before March last year:

33 House Sparrow

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I’m lucky to get once a year, so far....:-C

 

Paul Chapman

Well-known member

• Feb 9, 2019

• #177

Two additions today - Redwing (33) & Greenfinch (34).

All the best

 

halftwo

Wird Batcher

• Feb 10, 2019

• #178

53: Peregrine

- right past my window!!

 

jasperpatch

Amy, Brit in Quebec.

• Feb 10, 2019

• #179

KenM said:

I’m lucky to get once a year, so far....:-C

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And I'm yet to get one on my county list, let alone the garden!

 

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Toby Tyke

Well-known member

• Feb 11, 2019

• #180

52 goosander
53 gadwall
54 green woodpecker

All flyovers while cleaning the car.