Garden (Yard) List 2013 (1 Viewer)

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Jan 20, 2013

• #81

49) Skylark

Picked up the flock in the field behind the park in flight briefly this afternoon.

 

SueO

Well-known member

• Jan 20, 2013

• #82

joannec said:

You could have a "Float Around" list.........birds seen on and from The Peregrine!:t: It is after all your home.

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halftwo said:

Yes, that, I know, has some good birds in it!

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This year would be a pretty skimpy list because a lot of it will be pelagic. I got a great pelagic book, and am looking forward to some unique birding, but I know I'm in for some frustration. A sailboat is not like one of the big boats that people take for pelagic tours. Our boat heels in the wind and has a lot of up and down motion if there are even small swells. Even if you can over come that, just as you get the bird in the bins, it flys behind the sail as it does a horizon job. Also, every one of those petrels looks the same even in the book where it doesn't move.
Sue

 

Last edited: Jan 20, 2013

edenwatcher

Well-known member

• Jan 21, 2013

• #83

A bit of movement:
28. common gull
29. curlew (34 total)
30. mistle thrush (35 total)
31. common buzzard

Rob

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jan 21, 2013

• #84

RyanI said:

Managed to push past the half century this weekend, still missing some easy ones though!

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For us to appreciate this a little, maybe you could add a few details about the garden - part of Britain, overlooking what, etc. Given the Little Auk et al, I am guessing it isn't an inner city urban 10 square metre affair :-O

 

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Cheshire Birder

Well-known member

• Jan 21, 2013

• #85

Yesterday added Buzzard to the garden yearlist

CB

 

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Jan 21, 2013

• #86

Back up the leaderboard to joint first ... only momentarily I presume though

50) Green Woodpecker (h)
51) Kestrel

 

halftwo

Wird Batcher

• Jan 22, 2013

• #87

The dearth continues here, but raptors were present this morning, including...

36 : Sparrowhawk quickly through.

Later a brief call & even briefer view..

37 : Treecreeper.

An unknown bunting flew over against the sun.

 

Last edited: Jan 22, 2013

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Jan 22, 2013

• #88

MEGA!!!!!!!!! --


52) Robin

(Actually, not a mega . Picked up in a distant field - red-breast barely discernible, making it look slightly more interesting ... )

 

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RyanI

Well-known member

• Jan 22, 2013

• #89

Jos Stratford said:

For us to appreciate this a little, maybe you could add a few details about the garden - part of Britain, overlooking what, etc. Given the Little Auk et al, I am guessing it isn't an inner city urban 10 square metre affair :-O

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You got it in one Jos, I live in the centre of Birmingham and have a wee garden pond :-O

Na, I live on the east coast of Norfolk and although I have a wee garden my patio doors over look some sand dunes, scrub and the sea.

52) Great Northern Diver

 

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Dom F

Well-known member

• Jan 23, 2013

• #90

43. Lesser Frigatebird (60th spp for house). Single circling over Yorkeys Knob this afternoon in moderate winds.
44. Silver Gull (61st spp for house).

 

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Larry Lade

Moderator

• Jan 23, 2013

• #91

22. Brown Creeper
23. Common Grackle
24. Red-winged Blackbird

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Jan 23, 2013

• #92

Dom F said:

44. Silver Gull (61st spp for house).

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I saw one of those...a few years back in St.James's Park London..came in with the Winter Black headed Gulls (possible Eastern European origin?) and went out with them for 2 years running..but then went AWOL.

Totally threw me..couldn't compute it!..eventually saw one on the TV during an Aussie Test Match.

A smart bird.

 

halftwo

Wird Batcher

• Jan 23, 2013

• #93

38 : Common gull.

 

chowchilla

Well-known member

• Jan 24, 2013

• #94

Dom F said:

43. Lesser Frigatebird (60th spp for house). Single circling over Yorkeys Knob this afternoon in moderate winds.

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I'm jealous already! If you got better at IDing calls I reckon your garden list would be more like 70 by now!

I'm only 1 km inland but it makes all the difference. The strong winds of course brought a ton more good stuff your way this AM.

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Jan 24, 2013

• #95

At last..a lone Redwing! No.41.

 

edenwatcher

Well-known member

• Jan 24, 2013

• #96

32. greylag goose (36 total)

Rob

 

edenwatcher

Well-known member

• Jan 26, 2013

• #97

33. redwing (37 total)
34. goldcrest
35. collared dove

Rob

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Jan 26, 2013

• #98

A female Accipter gentilis in leisurely direct flight, over the canopy circa 1pm. No.42.

 

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Jan 27, 2013

• #99

KenM said:

A female Accipter gentilis in leisurely direct flight, over the canopy circa 1pm. No.42.

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:eek!: How frequent are they over London? Nice!


Added a new one last night ... Eventually managed to nail the half dozen screaming missiles as Common Swifts. In my dreams, literally.

On the invert front, first butterfly of the year was a Red Admiral flying past yesterday.

 

joannec

Well-known member

• Jan 27, 2013

• #100

KenM said:

A female Accipter gentilis in leisurely direct flight, over the canopy circa 1pm. No.42.

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:t:

35) Song Thrush
36) Fieldfare