Bismarck Honeyeater
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Had one this morning .75 mile from home, which really distressed me, until I realised I wouldn’t have been able to have seen it anyway. Nice to know they can get so close though
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Garden/Yard List 2020 (3 Viewers)
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Had one this morning .75 mile from home, which really distressed me, until I realised I wouldn’t have been able to have seen it anyway. Nice to know they can get so close though
Paul Chapman
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Mostly inside today but a few upgrades for my ten day garden lockdown list with Wren added, Moorhen upgraded to seen and a Greenfinch finally photographed. Fledged Woodpigeon was a surprise. This evening from the upstairs landing (photo of the view attached) a pair of Shelduck added for the year & a passable picture of the female through the trees:-
47 Shelduck 03 Apr 2020
Garden lockdown list now 42 with 28 photo'd & it includes just one heard now in Common Scoter.
All the best
Paul
47 Shelduck 03 Apr 2020
Garden lockdown list now 42 with 28 photo'd & it includes just one heard now in Common Scoter.
All the best
Paul
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Carol Rushton
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Final bird for the 3rd April was:
21) Pied Wagtail, flying through the garden.
21) Pied Wagtail, flying through the garden.
Farnboro John
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KenM
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
You own an ear trumpet????? 3
John
In fact Ken has detached the trumpet speaker from his 78rpm playing phonograph, it means he can’t hear his Bix Beiderbecke records quite as well, but Common Scoters are the priority at the moment
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Probably...
Mind you, I prefer Lovely Day (by yesterday's departed Bill Withers) to Mr Reed's Perfect Day any day (getting my days a bit tangled up there.........).
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
An hour outside last night failed to produce the hoped-for Common Scoters overhead (and no Velvet Underground either) but typical, ten minutes after I gave up two other Leics listeners had them.
Getting my moth trap set up for tonight so at least I can record no scoters and no moths this time.
Nice three hours this morning though. Nothing properly new but Skylark was#44 for my garden lockdown list.
Steve
Getting my moth trap set up for tonight so at least I can record no scoters and no moths this time.
Nice three hours this morning though. Nothing properly new but Skylark was#44 for my garden lockdown list.
Steve
Farnboro John
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Farnboro John
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While I'm indoors instead of staring into the blue:
49. Rook 1 SW - easy enough in the countryside in any direction, not so much in central Farnborough!
Teetering on the brink now, will No. 50 be a garden tick or anticlimactic hitherto lockdown-shy regular?
John
49. Rook 1 SW - easy enough in the countryside in any direction, not so much in central Farnborough!
Teetering on the brink now, will No. 50 be a garden tick or anticlimactic hitherto lockdown-shy regular?
John
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
53) Raven.
Was beginning to wonder when that one would fall. Very few obvious expected ones remaining now. Can well see me grinding to a halt once the summer migrants are in.
Was beginning to wonder when that one would fall. Very few obvious expected ones remaining now. Can well see me grinding to a halt once the summer migrants are in.
KenM
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I’ll be pinning my lug’oles back once more tonight, probably with a glass of something to sharpen the senses! Having read that on the previous night a West London birder had multiple flocks calling going before and after midnight kinda coloured my hopes for “expectation”.
Suffice to say I did actually hear a distant short “cluster” of notes 15mins. into my vigil last night, but then nothing for the next 75 minutes.
Thus assumed unlikely, due to the nature of the “short” call, however speaking to a colleague in Herts/Camb.area who “scored” last night after a 2 hour vigil, which also resulted in just two short distant “cluster” calls for the duration.
I then Xeno Canto’d the 9 sec.French recording, which was no.2.at the start of the recordings and I found that it compared favourably with what I’d heard as opposed to...what I’d expected!
Am wondering how many glasses will do the trick tonight?
Suffice to say I did actually hear a distant short “cluster” of notes 15mins. into my vigil last night, but then nothing for the next 75 minutes.
Thus assumed unlikely, due to the nature of the “short” call, however speaking to a colleague in Herts/Camb.area who “scored” last night after a 2 hour vigil, which also resulted in just two short distant “cluster” calls for the duration.
I then Xeno Canto’d the 9 sec.French recording, which was no.2.at the start of the recordings and I found that it compared favourably with what I’d heard as opposed to...what I’d expected!
Am wondering how many glasses will do the trick tonight?
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Welcome to our world JW !
Paul Chapman
Well-known member
A concerted effort earlier produced 31 species of which I photographed 8 - https://ebird.org/checklist/S66619361 - Song Thrush and Canada Goose were lockdown additions and I had two garden year ticks:-
48 Willow Warbler 04 Apr 2020
49 Eurasian Blackcap 04 Apr 2020
Lockdown garden list now 46 - 28 photographed & 1 heard only.
Some nice light today to take a few pics & to sex Starlings by bill base colour - blue for a boy & pink for a girl.
50 seems most likely to be a hirundine so back looking later.....
All the best
Paul
48 Willow Warbler 04 Apr 2020
49 Eurasian Blackcap 04 Apr 2020
Lockdown garden list now 46 - 28 photographed & 1 heard only.
Some nice light today to take a few pics & to sex Starlings by bill base colour - blue for a boy & pink for a girl.
50 seems most likely to be a hirundine so back looking later.....
All the best
Paul
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Paul Chapman
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Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
April 4th.
A rare afternoon session to try out the eBird app produced two nice additions
57. Sand Martin - five north and two hours later two south
58. Osprey - one hovering over a small lake that I can't see at all, unfortunately.
Osprey was my second garden lifer of the week, following the Curlew on Wednesday - had another today, unseen but doing its wonderful breeding call as it went over.
Not a bad day all in all, 37 species from the garden.
Steve
A rare afternoon session to try out the eBird app produced two nice additions
57. Sand Martin - five north and two hours later two south
58. Osprey - one hovering over a small lake that I can't see at all, unfortunately.
Osprey was my second garden lifer of the week, following the Curlew on Wednesday - had another today, unseen but doing its wonderful breeding call as it went over.
Not a bad day all in all, 37 species from the garden.
Steve
