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How big is your GARDEN/YARD LIST? (2 Viewers)

We've been in our house in North Yorkshire for just over two years, we are on the move again in August. We have a feeder which is filled twice a day usually plus a bird bath and our list reads as follows:
Blue tit
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Long Tailed Tit (occasionally)
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Bullfinch (occasionally)
Treecreeper
Wren
Dunnock
Brambling
Jackdaw
Starling
Magpie
Blackbird
Nuthatch (A constant favourite)
Collared Dove
Turtle Dove (First time this year, and only one unfortunately, see my gallery)
Pheasant (occasionally)
Goldcrest (this year, seen once only)
Greater Spotted Woodpecker (Almost daily of late)
Song Thrush
Robin
Jay (occasionally)
A Tawny Owl wakes my wife most mornings around 0500 but we've never had a view.
Not as big a list as some, but on the plus side it was watching and enjoying these species in the garden that led us to invest in spotting scope, bins and a digital SLR, and going further afield to watch birds, something I would have never seen myself doing two years ago.
Midge
 
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Garden list if currently at 58 (including flyovers), still missing some easy stuff. Amazingly in three and a bit years we've had peregrine, hobby, merlin, sprawk, common buzzard, tawny, little and barn owl but no kestrel yet. What makes that really silly is that I've seen them within half a mile of the house in every direction, one day I'll get one.
 
:hi: you all are very lucky i think,i only have a small yard not as big as some peoples garages,so it never crossed my mind to have a yard list,and its all concrete and bricks,so im going to try and get some birds to visit by putting out more feeders and plants in containers ,ill let you know how i get on. ;)
 
Great thread

This is a great thread I love reading what everyone can see in or around their yards. My house is surrounded by a watershed and reservoir so we are surrounded by woods. My yard is filled with various kinds of pine trees,Spruce and Hemlock and White. We have a couple of jap maple trees and other deciduous trees. We have holly bushes and blueberry bushes. We have also built a pond.

I will start with flyovers which I admit I do not pay that much attention as to the ones that are in or around my yard. I counted 35.

Canadian Geese (flyover
Bald Eagle (flyover one time)
Mallard (flyover)
Eastern Bluebird
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Gray Catbird
Black capped Chickadee
Brown Head Cowbird
Brown Creeper
Crows
Mourning Dove
House Finch
Purple Finch
Northern Flicker
American Goldfinch
Rose Breasted Grosbeak
Red Shouldered Hawk
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Blue Jay
Junco
Mockingbird
Red Breasted Nuthatch
White Breasted Nuthatch
Baltimore Oriole
Owl (unidentified in woods next to house)
Northern Parula
Amer. Robin
Chipping Sparrow
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
Downy Woodpecker
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker (in woods next to house)
Carolina Wren
 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo makes #108

And a lifer, too!

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo!!! Holy moly...

I'd heard a new singer and, knowing it was a warbler, got up from the desk to check it out when my eye tripped on this jay-sized, very long-tailed, drab grayish bird perched in a shaggy-bark juniper with its back to me. It was obviously eating something, and then it turned its head to wipe its bill, which was down-curved and yellow and black. I could also see its white throat and neck. I dropped to my knees and crawled over to get the camera and managed to get a few shots off through the window before it flew. I spent another half hour trying to relocate it for hopefully more shots, to no avail. But it's pretty windy this afternoon, so maybe tomorrow morning...

Gotta go into town tomorrow and will take this roll of film in, see if any of the shots are recognizable as a cuckoo, and will post if so. WOW, I'm not TOO jazzed! :bounce:I'm waiting now to hear from some AZ experts on whether this bird has ever been reported on the Mogollon Rim where I live. It's usually a low Sonoran Desert species.
 
Update: Make that #109: A Eurasian Collared-Dove came in with a couple of Band-tailed Pigeons (an adult and a new fledge!) and Mourning Doves. Too bad this wasn't a lifer as well! ;) Still, a nice bird for the yard even if it is an introduced species.
 
house sparrow, tree aswell i think,magpie,house martin,blue tit,pidgeon,starling,
not a lot yet, but im working on it ;)
 
New Birders

Hey all,

My husband and I are new birders. We fumbled through last summer, improved over the winter, and have a very active yard this summer. We live on 5 acres in the woods; however, the backyard where our feeders are is only about an acre in size.

We began our list March 2005, so it is not very long. But I think it is pretty impressive for 3 months. We are having fun! As we cannot yet identify birds by sound, we only count birds we have seen in or above our property. We are keeping track of dates, so we can track migration.

All of these have eaten at our feeders except the heron, the Canadian goose, turkey vulture and the osprey. The sharp-skinned hawk, unfortunately, ate an unsuspecting chickadee who was at the feeder.

Here is the list.

Carolina wrens
dark eyed junko
tufted titmouse
downy woodpecker
pileated woodpecker
mourning doves
Carlina chickadees
gold finches
northern cardinals
brown headed cow birds
turkey vulture
chipping sparrow
great blue heron
bald eagle
sharp skinned hawk
white breasted nuthatch
osprey
ruby-throated hummingbirds
robin
Canadian goose
blue jay
red-winged black bird
indigo bunting
blue grosbeak
purple martin
rose-breasted grosbeak
house finch
red-belled woodpecker
wild turkey

That's it, as of today.

Lydia :girl:
 
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187. I'll not bore you with a full list, but I do have a local patch thread and here is an online bird report which I will locate and post here if I can.

Most remarkable would be 2x White rumped Sandpiper, White-winged Black Tern, Wryneck, Yellow-browed Warbler, and Richard's Pipit.

Red-throated Diver to Gannet http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob1.htm
Cormorant to Brent Goose http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob2.htm
Shelduck to Long-tailed Duck http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob3.htm
Common Scoter to Merlin http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob4.htm
Barbary Falcon to Knot http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob5.htm
Sanderling to Black-tailed Godwit http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob6.htm
Bar-tailed Godwit to Grey Phalarope http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob7.htm
Pomarine Skua to Kittiwake http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob8.htm
Sandwich Tern to Turtle Dove http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob9.htm
Cuckoo to Rock Pipit http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob10.htm
Yellow Wagtail to Blackbird http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob11.htm
Fieldfare to Willow Warbler http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob12.htm
Goldcrest to Carrion Crow http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob13.htm
Starling to Corn Bunting http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hob14.htm
 
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I envy all of you who have such large yards with a variety of habitats. But, I think I am doing okay with what little I've got, and it's a rental! Here's my list so far:

American Goldfinch, American Robin, Blue Grosbeak, Blue Jay, Brown Thrasher, Brown-headed Cowbird, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, Chipping Sparrow, Chuck-will's-widow, Common Grackle, Dark-eyed Junco, Eastern Towhee, European Starling, Fox Sparrow, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Gray Catbird, Hermit Thrush, House Finch, Mourning Dove, Northern Cardinal, Northern Mockingbird, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Red-tailed Hawk, Tufted Titmouse, Turkey Vulture, White-breasted Nuthatch, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Vireo. Hopefully more to come. Happy birding!
 
I have just checked my BTO Gardenbirdwatch list and this year I have a pathectic 23 species.Don't laugh!
Then again I have a very small garden where ,according to my chum, the birds must get a ticket for the birdfeeder like we do at the deli-counter at the supermarket.
I mustn't moan because until the first winged visitors came into my garden I was not the least interested in Birds.How glad I am that they did.
 
Since April 21st when I posted my list of 35 garden visitors and flypasts recorded since March 11th this year I can now add 4 more, making my total 39 so far. The 4 additions are:

House Martin
Swift
Moorhen (on the millstream at the bottom of the garden)
Black Redstart
 
since august 1st 204 my wife and I have tallied 84 species in our yard here in Tallahassee, FL. The last new species was a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak in May. see my thread "a yard in florida" for more info.
 
My yard list is 51. Crummy I know, but I've only been birding for about three years. Is that real bad? Most of your yard lists are bigger than my life list! 3:)
 
Hi Jason,

Don't "beat yourself up", 51 is not bad at all. It is exciting to add new birds to your yard list. As it gets larger, it just takes a little more time to add that "new bird".

Hang in there!
 
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