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Garden (Yard) List 2013 (1 Viewer)

If anyone is interested - I currently have an "extended" garden view on a near permanent webcam. Just now its pointing into the mouth of the Mersey.... see my signature for a link

The sounds are from the front garden though
 
Red Letter Day!

First day of significant autumn movement today, a constant passage of Jays overhead, quite a few Wood Pigeons too, but first good species of the day was Crossbill, a party flying over. A trickle of Great Tits and Long-tailed Tits too, plus Chiffchaffs, etc.

Rare indeed is it that I find a new species for my land these days, but sitting on the water beyond my feeders, slinking along with a few Mallards, one EURASIAN WIGEON, not a species I expected inside the forest! As all the ducks flushed, a Garganey also rose from the reeds, also a pretty good bird (a pair bred several years ago, but no other records).

Also Great Grey Shrike back, I presume, for the winter and a jolly bunch of woodpecker on and around the feeders - Black, Grey-headed , White-backed and Middle Spotted heading the cast.

122. Eurasian Wigeon
123. Garganey
124. Crossbill
 
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Just released I have now broken my all time highest year total - got 123 species last year and that was a record, now on 124 with three months to go (but think I will struggle to get more than one or two more).
 
A nice bit of wader passage during the recent windy conditions have helped me reach 120.

114 Sooty Shearwater
115 Avocet
116 Grey Plover
117 Ringed Plover
118 Golden Plover
119 Gadwall
120 Ruff
 
Red Letter Day Mark II

Two days after Wigeon, yet another new species for my land in the form of Water Rail! In recent years, I have frequently only found a couple of new species per year, so two in three days is pretty neat.


125. Water Rail.
 
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Blimey Charlie!
What a cracking autumn you're already having!
I've barely been able to see owt in the last couple of days; except rain.
 
Jos Stratford said:
Red Letter Day Mark II

Two days after Wigeon, yet another new species for my land in the form of Water Rail! In recent years, I have frequently only found a couple of new species per year, so two in three days is pretty neat.


125. Water Rail.
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That's one less than I've seen in 30 years!...but then...I only have a small garden :(
 
Though Parasitic Jaeger (Arctic Skua) would've been a very nice garden tick too, Long-tailed is bloody amazing!

I think DomF living in Cairns' Northern Beaches has Arctic Skua on his Garden List.
 
Long-tailed is the only Northern Hemisphere skua that I haven't had over the house yet - being on the sea front is perhaps an unfair advantage though
 
After two months of looking the third wader finally put an appearance in this afternoon. And not just one, but thirty-one

Lapwings

distantly heading south.
 
Yesterday all the hirundines disappeared which has left the sky rather empty.
Four geese heading north were the first for the house:

Greylag goose.
 
Day of the raptors ..the autumn swing continues. High over Labanoras and through the forest, a steady trickle of raptors to enliven the day. All southbound, a continual drift of Sparrowhawks on the move, quite a few Common Buzzards and a Hobby too, but amongst these, the 'big boys' ...all in short succession, making the best of a window in the weather, no less than four Lesser Spotted Eagles and, rather less common on my land, two mighty White-tailed Eagles, adults both. Also one very large female Goshawk hunting Mallards in the flood forest and, away from the raptors, a couple of Common Cranes also southbound and two Woodlarks, my only records so far in 2013.



126. Woodlark.
 
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