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Third trip of the year.
I'm fortunate at this time of year, as my daughter has become a willing accomplice. She can handle the experience about once a week, and as weekday birding is out at the moment, it's nice to be able to manage a walk at the weekend if the weather holds.
Cloudy, breezy and cool today, but there was a reasonable amount of activity.
As in my previous posts for 2004, my new adventure in bird counting continues, and is still a bit hit and miss when the numbers get above about 5!
Id skills let me down on a couple of flocks... one of finch-like birds, and one of tit-like birds, and the woods near to the hotel were pretty busy. If I could have stayed there all day, I would doubtless have got bigger numbers.
Highlights for the day were my firsy singing Skylark of the year, my third Woodpecker species of the year, with a Greater Spotted giving it some serious welly (Black next please!) and Great views of Treecreepers and Nuthatch. And at last... Bullfinch. It hits the Outback List as an "official" Outback Life Tick, but that is only because I didn't see one during my 2003 walks after beginning working my patch in May. Partnyorsha had already seen (at leats) one earlier that year... but "too early"!
Anyway, 25 species today, takes the Outback Year List to 32, and the my general 2004 List to 53
Plain text = Outback day tick
Bold text = Outback year tick
Bold italic text = Outback life tick
Blackbird : 8
Black-headed Gull : 17
Carrion Crow : 7
Magpie : 3
Skylark : 1
Grey Heron : 1
Moorhen : 7
Long-tailed Tit : 32
Woodpigeon : 10
Mistle Thrush : 2
Blue Tit : 6
Coal Tit : 1
Robin : 3
Green Woodpecker : 1
Kestrel : 2
Treecreeper : 2
Nuthatch : 2
Greater Spotted Woodpecker : 1
Pheasant : 2
Goldcrest : 1
Great Tit : 4
Bullfinch : 1
Greenfinch : 1
Fieldfare : 2
Chaffinch : 1
Mallard : 1
I'm fortunate at this time of year, as my daughter has become a willing accomplice. She can handle the experience about once a week, and as weekday birding is out at the moment, it's nice to be able to manage a walk at the weekend if the weather holds.
Cloudy, breezy and cool today, but there was a reasonable amount of activity.
As in my previous posts for 2004, my new adventure in bird counting continues, and is still a bit hit and miss when the numbers get above about 5!
Id skills let me down on a couple of flocks... one of finch-like birds, and one of tit-like birds, and the woods near to the hotel were pretty busy. If I could have stayed there all day, I would doubtless have got bigger numbers.
Highlights for the day were my firsy singing Skylark of the year, my third Woodpecker species of the year, with a Greater Spotted giving it some serious welly (Black next please!) and Great views of Treecreepers and Nuthatch. And at last... Bullfinch. It hits the Outback List as an "official" Outback Life Tick, but that is only because I didn't see one during my 2003 walks after beginning working my patch in May. Partnyorsha had already seen (at leats) one earlier that year... but "too early"!
Anyway, 25 species today, takes the Outback Year List to 32, and the my general 2004 List to 53
Plain text = Outback day tick
Bold text = Outback year tick
Bold italic text = Outback life tick
Blackbird : 8
Black-headed Gull : 17
Carrion Crow : 7
Magpie : 3
Skylark : 1
Grey Heron : 1
Moorhen : 7
Long-tailed Tit : 32
Woodpigeon : 10
Mistle Thrush : 2
Blue Tit : 6
Coal Tit : 1
Robin : 3
Green Woodpecker : 1
Kestrel : 2
Treecreeper : 2
Nuthatch : 2
Greater Spotted Woodpecker : 1
Pheasant : 2
Goldcrest : 1
Great Tit : 4
Bullfinch : 1
Greenfinch : 1
Fieldfare : 2
Chaffinch : 1
Mallard : 1
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