KenM
Well-known member
....that too, but!..can you exclude a catharus Thrush H? :eek!:
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Garden/Yard List 2018. (2 Viewers)
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....that too, but!..can you exclude a catharus Thrush H? :eek!:
KenM
Well-known member
Bloody good going Jasper! I’ve been 35 years at my abode and If I include “grey” splits, I’m at c141...
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
With up to six at Swithland Reservoir recently it was only a matter of time...……
81 Great White Egret
One flew high northwest this morning. A garden first, #91 since January 2017.
Steve
81 Great White Egret
One flew high northwest this morning. A garden first, #91 since January 2017.
Steve
halftwo
Wird Batcher
Not like Hawfinch - wrong part of under wing - but no - quite a few catharus Thrushes possible, obviously.
Probably more likely than Sibe!
Minus 10 and snowing = excellent at the feeders this morning. Two Grey-headed Woodpeckers as I write, hordes of Great Tits etc . Sparrowhawk earlier, one Treecreeper attending the feeders.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Still a good one to add Steve - we've been here since Autumn 2016 and our list stands at 96 now, we've a long way to go to catch Jos and Ken in the inland garden sub-section of the thread (that I just invented).
At the 30th November we're on 85 for the year, last year we finished the year on 87 but added none in December, I'm racking my brains to think what might turn up (not heard Pygmy or Tengmalm's Owls this autumn locally so they're unlikely), still grilling the Yellowhammers in case a Pine Bunting nips over the Alps from southern Switzerland................
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
82 Hawfinch 02.12.18
One flew over low and calling, possibly had been feeding in nearby yews. My first in the county this year - there have been hardly any this winter.
Steve
One flew over low and calling, possibly had been feeding in nearby yews. My first in the county this year - there have been hardly any this winter.
Steve
volcomized
Well-known member
42. Ruby-crowned kinglet. Another new feeder bird! So tiny, so cute. I otherwise wouldn't have identified this bird if it wasn't staring me straight in the face (so very cheeky too) as I stood right next to the suet cage.
December 3rd. Only a couple more weeks left in the year. Too early to call it?
jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
Ooh, I've never seen a kinglet come to a feeder before! Ours just flit about in the trees whilst the chickadees come down.
Don't give up yet!
volcomized
Well-known member
I'm constantly rotating the suet flavors, but I remember it was a unique flavor, either woodpecker's delight or mealworm. Same with the rock wren, 2 of them only came for the mealworm, and nowhere could I find on the internet that they visit suet feeders. Guess I have some adventurous/ravenous birds.
No sooner did I post this and the little one appeared again, and this time I was able to catch him on video and screenshot it! Just swapped out the suet, and now I know it's peanut inside. Doesn't seem too picky. At first I thought it was a hummingbird the way it was flying/hovering at the suet cage.
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jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
Not a new one, but an upgrade from flyover to 'sat outside my window'. Very nice female Evening Grosbeak popped in for a few minutes yesterday, calling for friends who never turned up. She was close to but didn't use the feeders - looks like she has berry juice on her beak so must have been full from breakfast.
Just a couple more days to see if I can add to my 84. Two shy of my best year, with some very nice new additions - 5 brand new to the garden list, one of which was a lifer too.
Just a couple more days to see if I can add to my 84. Two shy of my best year, with some very nice new additions - 5 brand new to the garden list, one of which was a lifer too.
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Come on Amy, surely you're not going to let me beat you?8-P
Richard (stuck on 85 since November)
jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
Never say never! At least 3 not on my list that I've seen locally in December....I'm expecting they'll turn up January 1st though!
KenM
Well-known member
Just (last night) back from a week away, and trading blue skies for grey! A couple of Song Thrush, Goldcrest, male Blackcap, a single Redwing, three male Siskin on feeders (all good birds)....then what I thought was a Hawfinch emerging left to right out of “the gloom” before perching on a distant neighbour’s oak...then it morphed into a Lesser-spotted Woodpecker!...I was gob-smacked!, last tick was Nov.1st! has to be the last...and no.85.
A Happy New Year to one and All.
A Happy New Year to one and All.
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
I have not seen a Lesser 'pecker anywhere for well over two years, never mind in my garden, so rather jealous Ken. As far as I know there have not been any reliable records in the county (Leics/Rutland) this year but advice is to keep quiet about them if you are lucky enough to come across one.
Steve
Steve
KenM
Well-known member
It wasn’t in the garden Steve!, it flew out of the forest opposite across the ride and landed in a distant neighbour’s tree. I’ve had several other “possible” sightings earlier this year, but all too brief and at extreme angles from the window. Six years ago I found a single female in the wood opposite in Jan’13, a day later it was joined by a male... and for the first time in my life, I had both together (briefly) on an oak tree. To put that into perspective, I hadn’t seen or heard one in the immediate locale...for at least several years before that...a very scarce and elusive species. However if you look at the BTO’s recent report on their status they are undoubtedly under reported due to their general “unobtrusiveness”, to that you can add Hawfinch and Goshawk.
Cheers
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Well,the sun has just gone down behind the mountain here so that’s another year’s Garden List over, my best bird this year here was the Middle Spotted Woodpecker but the winner overall has to be Wari’s ‘White Stripes’ Crossbill (not too subtle rock n roll reference for him there). Enjoy your New Year celebrations however you choose to do them, I’ve got my mother in law staying tonight and tomorrow so spare me a thought garden listers everywhere
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
A Happy New Year to all garden listers, and best wishes for more birds in 2019.
According to eBird Yard Lists my little patch is the fifth most productive garden in the UK this year so I'm pretty pleased with my 82 species.
Steve
According to eBird Yard Lists my little patch is the fifth most productive garden in the UK this year so I'm pretty pleased with my 82 species.
Steve
KenM
Well-known member
Looking back on 2018, I had two “in-grdn.life” ticks...a pair of Jackdaws that visited (briefly each time to my peanut feeder on two consecutive days only), a Treecreeper landing again, briefly on the same tree, before zapping off! To put that into perspective I live adjacent to deciduous woodland, and can generally see both species without too much effort season dependent when I stroll round outback. However two flyover SEO’s seven days apart, was for me as exceptional as it was, being my only Garden “life-tick” compared against just the single Firecrest record!, normally four to five per annum at least...no two years the same.
Cheers
Cheers
