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Garden / Yard List 2017 (4 Viewers)
- Thread starter halftwo
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Had a Pied Wagtail a first for my garden today.
jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
No worries, I'll answer to Jasper....I've been called much worse in the past I'm sure
Thaw is in full swing here at last. Warm enough to sit outside with a cuppa, enabling me to hear and see some spring arrivals,
24. Eastern Pheobe.
25. Red-winged Blackbird. They've been about a while, but high flyovers so
being outside helps.
26. Winter wren (heard. FOY for me).
27. Yellow-bellied sapsucker (FOY again).
28. Great Blue Heron
Five new ones in a day, don't think I've had that good a day since January 1st when everything was new!
Simon Wates
Well-known member
Good numbers of spring passerine migrants at the moment across the Algarve while the winds are in the east - at home I don't see many spring migrants (plenty in the autumn though ) so nice to see a nice male:
56. Woodchat Shrike
They breed some 500m away or so but this bird on an Almond tree in this rather built up and gardenised area was surely a migrant. Also a male Western Subalpine Warbler has been hanging on in the bushes for 3 days now (another bird than one about 2 weeks ago).
) so nice to see a nice male:56. Woodchat Shrike
They breed some 500m away or so but this bird on an Almond tree in this rather built up and gardenised area was surely a migrant. Also a male Western Subalpine Warbler has been hanging on in the bushes for 3 days now (another bird than one about 2 weeks ago).
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jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
Spent most of today outside on the back deck, supervising boiling maple sap into syrup. Turned out to be a great day to be outside, we hit 24C, felt positively tropical.
29. Sharp-shinned Hawk
30. Common Grackle
31. Golden-crowned Kinglet
32. Ring-billed Gull
33. Song Sparrow (heard)
and 34. Sandhill Crane!!! A most unexpected flyover. Very pleased to have been out at the right time.
29. Sharp-shinned Hawk
30. Common Grackle
31. Golden-crowned Kinglet
32. Ring-billed Gull
33. Song Sparrow (heard)
and 34. Sandhill Crane!!! A most unexpected flyover. Very pleased to have been out at the right time.
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
Wow! Amy (I remembered), the summer comes there really fast! :eek!: Here has been a few days 10 C degrees, at the best.
#26. Great Cormorant - one flyover
#27. Common Raven - also one flyover (and cronking*)
#28. Fieldfare - "Singing" at the mornings everywhere
#29. Starling - 3 birds on neightbours antenna
*I'm not sure this is proper English word. |>|
#26. Great Cormorant - one flyover
#27. Common Raven - also one flyover (and cronking*)
#28. Fieldfare - "Singing" at the mornings everywhere
#29. Starling - 3 birds on neightbours antenna
*I'm not sure this is proper English word. |>|
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Probably isn't. But lots of people say it! :t:
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
I thoght I have seen it in use somewhere...
Paul Longland
Well-known member
Despite straining the ears for a chiffchaff across the park with no luck finally something to add and beleive it or not a garden "lifer" to boot.
32 bullfinch
a cracking male sitting in next door neighbours tree.
32 bullfinch
a cracking male sitting in next door neighbours tree.
Simon Wates
Well-known member
A bit of perseverance with the scope from the terrace trained at distance up the hill and a Thekla Lark in song flight. It was singing right where I know they breed and I've never seen a Crested so I'm counting it
57. Thekla Lark
Also nice to see 2 older Shags on the sea - last summer there was a juvenile or possibly two, that settled. If they become a breeding pair they will be the easternmost pair in the Algarve AFAIK.
57. Thekla Lark
Also nice to see 2 older Shags on the sea - last summer there was a juvenile or possibly two, that settled. If they become a breeding pair they will be the easternmost pair in the Algarve AFAIK.
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
A bit of perseverance with the scope from the terrace trained at distance up the hill and a Thekla Lark in song flight. It was singing right where I know they breed and I've never seen a Crested so I'm counting it
57. Thekla Lark
Glad to see you're adopting the high standards we maintain on the Garden list thread Simon 😏
(As bad as my Alpine Chough specks in the distance from our terrace!)
Simon Wates
Well-known member
Entirely, and the dedication! I put the scope up specifically to get a filthy year tick for this thread and - its still up so who knows what might appear
Thick layer of snow here!
KenM
Well-known member
First one I've seen H!....since 26th Jan'16...and that was in the woods outback, albeit that I hunted daily throughout the Winter months without success.
Tawny Owl seems to be a permanent fixture in the garden of late, calling intermittently morning and afternoon, he's a typical male....full of hoot and no show. :-O
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Willow Warbler singing within earshot of the garden this morning - less than annual here now (didn't get one from the garden last year)
GuyinUganda
Let's go birding
Finally I can add to my list!!
63. Common Kestrel
63. Common Kestrel
