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Warixenjalka · Nov 15, 2016

Ok - (This thread gonna go all the way to... hmm - wrong way) But I stick still in that third photo (with 2 Tits |>|): Feeding place where I take that photo has visited Marsh Tit about 3 weeks now. Also there has been 3 Willow Tits (and many others). I thoght I manage to take pic where I had both black-capped Tits, but now it looks like I failed. :-C No worries. I just have to go there and try again with better luck.

Here is another birder photos for that Marsh Tit. http://tuulanhavis.blogspot.fi/2016/10/viitatiainen.html
I thoght that I had a same bird, but the light might done his tricks...

KenM · Nov 15, 2016

Warixenjalka said:
Ok - (This thread gonna go all the way to... hmm - wrong way) But I stick still in that third photo (with 2 Tits |>|): Feeding place where I take that photo has visited Marsh Tit about 3 weeks now. Also there has been 3 Willow Tits (and many others). I thoght I manage to take pic where I had both black-capped Tits, but now it looks like I failed. :-C No worries. I just have to go there and try again with better luck.

Here is another birder photos for that Marsh Tit. http://tuulanhavis.blogspot.fi/2016/10/viitatiainen.html
I thoght that I had a same bird, but the light might done his tricks...

Had I seen the first 3 (new) images in the UK Wari, I would have said Marsh Tit. Presumably these were imaged locally, and as such, would be very uncommon?

Cheers Ken

joannec · Nov 16, 2016

73) Little Owl heard late this afternoon. This is a good one, not every year here.

KenM · Nov 17, 2016

joannec said:
73) Little Owl heard late this afternoon. This is a good one, not every year here.

Never had one here...considering the habitat I should have had one by now!

They have occurred within 1000m though....I'll keep the prayer mat out.

KenM · Nov 23, 2016

KenM said:
Never had one here...considering the habitat I should have had one by now!

They have occurred within 1000m though....I'll keep the prayer mat out.

On the basis that fact is stranger than fiction!....Just dozing off at c11.40pm when I received "a nudge" from the misses, "can you hear the Owl?" she said, I thought odd...as we hear Tawny most nights! Before I could reply, we heard this repeated "wee-ew"-"wee-ew"-"wee-ew"....."there" she said! That's not a Tawny I exclaimed! (just as a female started "ker-wicking" into the mix). I leapt out of bed and xeno-canto'd Little Owl, the first recording sounded similar, thus I played another....and we both agreed "Bang-On" (who am I to argue

) at last....no.80 and a grdn.lifer! This represents the 4th lifer this year, and puts me on 132 for the all time list.

halftwo · Nov 23, 2016

Hhmmff.
I've been incarcerated for a week with flu with nowt new to show for hours of looking!
Ahead once again, Ken!

Nutcracker · Nov 23, 2016

40. Flock of c.50 Pink-footed Geese S over.

Shows the importance of location - a very common sight down at the coast, but that little bit inland where I am, well less than annual.

KenM · Nov 23, 2016

halftwo said:
Hhmmff.
I've been incarcerated for a week with flu with nowt new to show for hours of looking!
Ahead once again, Ken!

Sorry to hear that H!...hopefully you'll soon be able to ''get back'' and give me a run for my money, as you have done for most of the year! As you appreciate, I do know what it's like to spend hours and hours....for nowt!

Keep your ''pecker up''......a Lesser spot would be nice. :t:

halftwo · Nov 23, 2016

Nutcracker said:
40. Flock of c.50 Pink-footed Geese S over.

Shows the importance of location - a very common sight down at the coast, but that little bit inland where I am, well less than annual.

About annual here - so maybe a chance yet.

Jabberwocky · Nov 23, 2016

halftwo said:
Hhmmff.
I've been incarcerated for a week with flu with nowt new to show for hours of looking!
Ahead once again, Ken!

I've had a touch of man flu the past few days, the extra garden watching has not been completely birdless though. I was watching some yellowhammers at the end of the garden, a dozen in a leafless ash tree when some more similar sized birds flew in. It was so gloomy I couldn't be sure but they looked like Linnets. I had to get the scope to confirm it, just in time as a male sparrowhawk put them to flight, there must have been around 40. Then, on Sunday my good lady called from the kitchen to say there were some thushes eating berries. When I checked I found a pair of Mistle Thrush. That takes me to 60 for the year, more than I expected at the begining and still one or two more possible.

Hope you're feeling better now, I am, I given it to the other half.

Nutcracker · Nov 23, 2016

Jabberwocky said:
... touch of man flu ... I given it to the other half.

Presumably the other half must also be a man? :t:

Jabberwocky · Nov 23, 2016

Nutcracker said:
Presumably the other half must also be a man? :t:

Not when I last looked, definitely a wo-man.

jasperpatch · Nov 23, 2016

Jabberwocky said:
. Then, on Sunday my good lady called from the kitchen to say there were some thrushes eating berries.

Hope you're feeling better now, I am, I given it to the other half.

Does Mum know you refer to her as 'my good lady' on the internet?! She'll expect you to be nicer in person if you're not careful!

Nothing new here, but I have moved the feeders to improve viewing. Watched a Northern Shrike chasing a nuthatch about yesterday. Not seen one in the garden since my first back in January, so nice for me, if not the nuthatch!

Jabberwocky · Nov 23, 2016

jasperpatch said:
Does Mum know you refer to her as 'my good lady' on the internet?! She'll expect you to be nicer in person if you're not careful!

Nothing new here, but I have moved the feeders to improve viewing. Watched a Northern Shrike chasing a nuthatch about yesterday. Not seen one in the garden since my first back in January, so nice for me, if not the nuthatch!

You won't tell her will you?:eek!:

Warixenjalka · Nov 24, 2016

Little Owl! Nice tick Joannec and KenM :t:

I haven't seen at least single owl my garden ever. On top of that, I haven't seen any bird on my garden during the last two weeks. But also I haven't been home at daylight hours (working days and whole last weekend went to the meeting of Birdlife Finland). All the snow has melted and endless darkness is always present... :-C

KenM · Nov 24, 2016

Warixenjalka said:
Little Owl! Nice tick Joannec and KenM :t:

I haven't seen at least single owl my garden ever. On top of that, I haven't seen any bird on my garden during the last two weeks. But also I haven't been home at daylight hours (working days and whole last weekend went to the meeting of Birdlife Finland). All the snow has melted and endless darkness is always present... :-C

Less than a month before the shortest day Wari....then it's downhill all the way to Spring! I'm sure Joanne and I would gladly trade Little Owl for Hawk Owl, any day of the week.....and they've got to be closer to you...than they are to us. :t:

Warixenjalka · Nov 24, 2016

KenM said:
Less than a month before the shortest day Wari....then it's downhill all the way to Spring! I'm sure Joanne and I would gladly trade Little Owl for Hawk Owl, any day of the week.....and they've got to be closer to you...than they are to us. :t:

You must be some kind of mind reader Ken. My only recent bright moment was at last Sunday, when I stopped on the way home in Kaivopuisto in Helsinki: Year tick from Hawk Owl!

Scridifer · Nov 24, 2016

Having missed out on three Dalmatian Pelican when half a mile away from home (I was sorely tempted to turn the car around and race home!), and a skein of Geese flying South while I was just down the road without bins, I am happy to report a solitary Siskin bathing with the Sparrows this morning for no. 46.

Chris

KenM · Nov 24, 2016

Warixenjalka said:
You must be some kind of mind reader Ken. My only recent bright moment was at last Sunday, when I stopped on the way home in Kaivopuisto in Helsinki: Year tick from Hawk Owl!

Just a coincidence Wari..It's foremost on my Xmas prezzy wish list every year.

KenM · Nov 24, 2016

Scridifer said:
Having missed out on three Dalmatian Pelican when half a mile away from home (I was sorely tempted to turn the car around and race home!), and a skein of Geese flying South while I was just down the road without bins, I am happy to report a solitary Siskin bathing with the Sparrows this morning for no. 46.

Chris

That's one more Siskin than I've had this Winter Chris! They normally turn up mid October, definitely long overdue. :-C

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