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Wird Batcher
What are other peoples overall totals for their garden, mine is 94 species
119..in 27 years...with several possibles..not included![/quote]
That's amazing, Ken. In London! 12 more than mine - over eighteen years.
What are other peoples overall totals for their garden, mine is 94 species
That's amazing, Ken. In London! 12 more than mine - over eighteen years.
That's amazing, Ken. In London! 12 more than mine - over eighteen years.
Just think you can now postulate, as to what your next 13 species might be over the next 9 years! :t:
What are other peoples overall totals for their garden, mine is 94 species
119..in 27 years...with several possibles..not included!
My 94 species has been over 5 years in Lancashire, any major highlights out of those totals?
..Cettis,
Red-Backed Shrike and more than once!.. Firecrest, Hawfinch, Pied Fly,
Common Redstart (only twice) and Naumann'sThrush (at least 5 visits).
cheers
A number of variables would come into play with this game....location and vista, the 'obsession' and flexibility of employing more hours looking, than one might care to own up to, and a fair degree of luck, which increases with the amount of time employed.
Sorry to hear about Mrs H......Like you, I tend to spend more time (especially during the winter months) than I should at the window, but this is because the 'yield' relative to effort, is far higher than it would be if I was trudging through glutenous ankle deep clay! So far this year it's been quite 'slow'...No SongThrushes,House Sparrow,Starling, and only 2 Greenfinches! This morning spent an hour 'looking'..but nothing out of the ordinary, went down stairs for a brew, looked up to see a large accipter (mle.Gos.) 'enveloped' in a cloud of finches c40, (trips outback have only yielded several Chaffinch at most!). Ascended the stairs in a 'jumping Jack flash' to see the sky full of Pigeons,Corvids and Finches..similtaneously a Common Buzzard..perhaps attracted to the commotion appeared over the roof with Corvid escorts, then as it disappearead over the trees...a possible Hawfinch bounded over! From start to finish less than a minute, and then inaction for the rest of the day. A minute of 'action' out of perhaps 380!...such is 'Garden Birding'.This is very true, Ken. Nowadays I'm increasingly birding from my house and garden, as MrsH.'s health deteriorates.
The rest, as you say a matter of luck and hours.
I've just been watching three Buzzards in near darkness - but the Woodcock seems not to be playing this winter - though I didn't see last year's before Feb.
So far this year it's been quite 'slow'...No SongThrushes,House Sparrow,Starling, and only 2 Greenfinches! From start to finish less than a minute, and then inaction for the rest of the day. A minute of 'action' out of perhaps 380!...such is 'Garden Birding'.
What's the story with the Naumann's thrush? Did you get crowds?
I'm amazed! that 2 contributors have achieved 94 and 99 respectively in only 5 years!
....only that some prominent politicians of the day turned up.
........................... and Naumann'sThrush (at least 5 visits).
cheers
............ but who would have thought Red-throated diver would occur?
H
And some low-lifes ....like me
Can I tick you too by default on the grounds you must have been lurking nearby?
Were you not the tall, rugged, good looking guy?....(can you lend me a 'tenner'?)