KenM
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Yes, I wonder who gets gold, silver and bronze in that department! :eek!:
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Garden/Yard List 2020 (1 Viewer)
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Yes, I wonder who gets gold, silver and bronze in that department! :eek!:
Just had a couple of Long Tailed Tits at the peanut & fat ball feeders.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
A few months since I saw any LTT here Euan!
Still, I'm a happy bunny, adding a Garden Lifer this evening. As proof that it's never too late, at 19h15 I remembered I'd left the 'scope outside but instead of bringing it straight in I had a final scan of the distant mountain ridge - nothing. OK, just a quick look at the Sulens across the valley I thought, and there floating just over the grassy summit, a female type
84 Montagu's Harrier
It vanished behind the summit but thankfully reappeared circling higher before heading south with that wonderful graceful flight that they have:t:
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Don't think I'll be catching up with you anytime soon then Kevin !:C
dantheman
Bah humbug
Think he will come to a dead end, or finish up in the 'cull de sac', as they say in suburban France?
KenM
Well-known member
Snap Richard!....you’ve caught up with me on MH, had one many years ago (fem.type) in June, interacting with Sprawk...disengaged then given the once over by a Hobby over a neighbour’s garden...one I don’t expect to be seeing again. :-C
KenM
Well-known member
After the last few ''unsettled'' (gale force wind) days becalm was restored...briefly! The sun shone without a whisper of a breeze as I gazed into my end of garden statuesque Ash tree....suddenly a single movement revealed no.88. albeit not as close as last years bird, bit of a long shot by comparison however not an easy one to image at best of times. 
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Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
Snap!
August 27th.
75. Redstart - a male quivering its tail atop next door's dead laburnum tree
Another garden lifer to boot, #98. Starting to think what might be #100.
Steve
August 27th.
75. Redstart - a male quivering its tail atop next door's dead laburnum tree
Another garden lifer to boot, #98. Starting to think what might be #100.
Steve
KenM
Well-known member
KenM
Well-known member
Probably for the first time this year I had a ''lay-in'' till 8.10am (grey skies with a cold Northerly...with a won't see anything of note today mindset) I ambled downstairs. Twas whilst preparing breakfast that my eye caught a signature movement!, grabbed bins but found it obscured by leafage thus dashed (hobbled) upstairs entered bedroom dropped to my knees and shuffled across the carpet, now ''periscoping-up'' past the window ledge, with camera in hand...no.89.
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Well done Steve and Ken.
Steve, what are your glaring omissions from the Garden life list in your opinion that could be your ‘two for the ton‘?
Ken, glad I’m not the only one who does the shuffle under the windows in order to not flush the garden visitor or two! Luckily the neighbours decided I was a crazy Anglais years ago:-O
Steve, what are your glaring omissions from the Garden life list in your opinion that could be your ‘two for the ton‘?
Ken, glad I’m not the only one who does the shuffle under the windows in order to not flush the garden visitor or two! Luckily the neighbours decided I was a crazy Anglais years ago:-O
KenM
Well-known member
.....yes but I had no trousers on Richard!:-O
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Aargh, too much information Ken:eek!:
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
None really Richard. My garden is well into urban Loughborough and I have seen just about anything that you would expect in a built up urban area, plus a fair few that you wouldn't.
A fly-over Tree Pipit is long overdue considering the amount of time I spend skywatching. Several common ducks eg Wigeon are not yet on the list, though none is particularly likely. Marsh Harrier is a possibility I suppose, or maybe Whooper Swan.
Steve
KenM
Well-known member
The “randomness” of occurrences never ceases to amaze Steve....particularly when sky watching (to excess helps). Urban London has given me flyover Hawfinch (High Court, Fleet St.), Red Kite, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail (St.Pauls) and I didn’t see the flyover WTSE, the sky’s the limit...happy hunting. :t:
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
Congratulations for MH! :t:
About two weeks ago I saw Pallid over the garden... Unfortunately it was my student apartments garden. (Still, it was a year tick. :king: )
Anyway, my long dry season (in own garden) is finally over.
#79. Spotted Flycatcher
#80. Chiffchaff - these are regular visitors in August or September, but...
#81. Wood Warbler - was a garden lifer! B
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KenM
Well-known member
Congratulations for MH! :t:
About two weeks ago I saw Pallid over the garden... Unfortunately it was my student apartments garden. (Still, it was a year tick. :king: )
Anyway, my long dry season (in own garden) is finally over.
#79. Spotted Flycatcher
#80. Chiffchaff - these are regular visitors in August or September, but...
#81. Wood Warbler - was a garden lifer! B
Well done on the Wood Warbler Wari!....deeply envious. :t:
