Birds seen from work/school (1 Viewer)

[Halcon]

I don't know if this thread does already exist. :h?: if it does say it please.
We'll only count birds observed from work/school/others
Here's my school list:
1-Feral Pigeon
2-Monk Parakeet
3-Blue Tit
4-Barn Swallow
5-Wood Pigeon
6-Magpie
7-Jackdaw
8-White Wagtail
9-Common Swift
10-Alpine Swift

 

[gropperwinch]

great idea for a thread Halcon! :t:
In my town we have two secondary schools one for year 7/8 and one for doing GSCE's in year 9 onwards. Crazy system I know but I assume I can count birds seen from both school as they are only about 300 metres apart!
In This Case My school list is currently;
1. Fulmar-school is right on the coast, I have seen them from school cruising the cliffs to the South
2. Cormorant-flying over
3. Grey Heron-also fly-over
4. Little Egret-the same
5. Mallard-flying over
6. Shelduck-flying over
7. Sparrowhawk
8. Peregrine-breed on the nearby cliffs and often hunt over the school, have seen them chase the many Pigeons and Jackdaws!
9. Oystercatcher-flying over
10. Lapwing-flying over
11. Black-headed Gull
12. Common Gull
13. Herring Gull
14. Lesser Blackback-including intermedius
15. Greater Blackback
16. Kittiwake-in spring breeding birds from the cliffs collect grass from fields to line their nests
17. Sandwich Tern-flyover
18. Feral Pigeon
19. Woodpigeon
20. Collared Dove
21. Green Woodpecker
22. Greater Spotted Woodepcker
23. Skylark-one appeared on the fields in hard weather this winter, they can also be heard singing from Seaford Head sometimes
24. Swift
25. Swallow
26. Sand Martin
27. Hose Martin
28. Tree Pipit-flies over in autumn
29. Meadow Pipit-same, also sometimes flyover in winter
30. Yellow Wagtail-autumn migrant
31. Grey Wagtail-autumn migrant and one bird overwinters on school grounds
32. Pied Wagtail-10+ around in winter, Alba also seen on two occasions
33. Wren
34. Dunnock
35. Robin
36. Fieldfare
37. Blackbird
38. Redwing
39. Song Thrush
40. Blackcap
41. Willow Warbler
42. Chiffchaff
43. Goldcrest
44. Long-tailed Tit
45. Blue Tit
46. Great Tit
47. Jay
48. Magpie
49. Jackdaw
50. Rook
51. Carrion Crow
52. Raven
53. Starling
54. House Sparrow
55. Chaffinch
56. Greenfinch
57. Goldfinch
58. Redpoll-autumn migrant
59. Linnet-autumn migrant and a pair bred on school grounds last year

 

[birdboybowley]

When working as a driving instructor best birds included :-
female Golden Oriole - flew over A27 towards Ivy Lake
2 White Storks
Purple Heron - soaring over Chi late one April afternoon whilst teaching a reverse around the corner!!
Honey Buzzard
Marsh Harrier
Barn Owl
Med Shearwater - was teaching a 3pt turn at the Bill (handy, huh?) and two mates were on the bench looking thru their scopes, so I wound the window down and asked what they were grilling - Med Shear! was the reply so dived out the car and had a quick look, much to the amusement of my pupil!! Take work seriously, me!
Kingfisher - zipped over the A27
Red-necked Phal - seen as we drove past the Ferry!
White-winged Black Tern and Little Gulls - seen as we drove past the Westhampnett pit!
Maybe I should go back to it!!

 

[Jos Stratford]

When working ....

Don't have an office, nor school, but can claim many a nice bird whilst working - flocks of Waxwings, Lesser Spotted Eagle, White Storks all immediately spring to mind ...but specially for you BBB, Black Woodpecker twice.

 

[birdboybowley]

...but specially for you BBB, Black Woodpecker twice.

Grrrrr...you're so kind Mr S!

 

[Mysticete]

My "Neighborhood list" which is essentially the walk to and from school every day, has about 50 species, the best being Clark's Nutcracker, Ferruginous Hawk, Rock Wren, and Red Crossbill.

 

[Farnboro John]

Black Kite over London when I worked in High Holborn. Immature Steppe Eagle hotly pursued by Magpies, crows, Lesser Black-backs etc along the concrete canyon at my fourth floor eye-level probably wins although an escape 9from a photo-shoot for an advert).

Turkey Vulture, Southern Caracara, Red-backed Hawk, Upland Goose, Ruddy-headed Goose, Long-tailed Meadowlark.... office in the Falklands in 1987.

John

 

[Enji]

Haven't usually paid much attention to any birds on the way to uni... mainly 'cause I'm usually in a hurry and have to bike really fast! Mostly seen (and heard, I naturally hear more than I see when on the bike) are the usual stuff in the city. The list is not in order, I've just tried to write them down from memory.

1. House Sparrow
2. Greenfinch
3. Nuthatch
4. Fieldfare
5. Blackbird
6. Tree Sparrow
7. Feral Pigeon
8. Wood Pigeon
9. Herring Gull (flyover)
10. Common Gull (flyover)
11. Black-headed Gull (flyover)
12. Common Crane (flyover)
13. Green Woodpecker
14. Waxwing
15. Yellowhammer
16. Hooded Crow
17. Jackdaw
18. Raven
19. Rook
20. Mallard (flyover)
21. Goldfinch
22. Collared Dove
23. White Wagtail
24. Common Crossbill
25. Chaffinch
26. Blue TIt
27. Great Tit
28. Starling
29. Magpie
30. Treecreeper

I have not counted any species that I've seen when taking a small detour home, past my local patch, since that would be cheating... I often take that way home though, the patch is just about two minutes by bike from uni... and a great spot.

 

[nickderry]

a small river ran by where I was working last year (till the bustards decided they didn't need me any more) up to 3 dipper were often seen and there were always kingfishers and herons. A whitethroat was in a small bush in the car park once and a spotted flycatcher paid a brief visit. It was all quite distracting.

 

[nickderry]

When working as a driving instructor best birds included :-
female Golden Oriole - flew over A27 towards Ivy Lake
2 White Storks
Purple Heron - soaring over Chi late one April afternoon whilst teaching a reverse around the corner!!
Honey Buzzard
Marsh Harrier
Barn Owl
Med Shearwater - was teaching a 3pt turn at the Bill (handy, huh?) and two mates were on the bench looking thru their scopes, so I wound the window down and asked what they were grilling - Med Shear! was the reply so dived out the car and had a quick look, much to the amusement of my pupil!! Take work seriously, me!
Kingfisher - zipped over the A27
Red-necked Phal - seen as we drove past the Ferry!
White-winged Black Tern and Little Gulls - seen as we drove past the Westhampnett pit!
Maybe I should go back to it!!

Just glad you weren't my driving instructor - I'd have never passed, I was always being told off for watching the birds rather than the road, and stopping to let pigeons cross in town.

 

[Halcon]

great idea for a thread Halcon! :t:
In my town we have two secondary schools one for year 7/8 and one for doing GSCE's in year 9 onwards. Crazy system I know but I assume I can count birds seen from both school as they are only about 300 metres apart!
In This Case My school list is currently;
1. Fulmar-school is right on the coast, I have seen them from school cruising the cliffs to the South
2. Cormorant-flying over
3. Grey Heron-also fly-over
4. Little Egret-the same
5. Mallard-flying over
6. Shelduck-flying over
7. Sparrowhawk
8. Peregrine-breed on the nearby cliffs and often hunt over the school, have seen them chase the many Pigeons and Jackdaws!
9. Oystercatcher-flying over
10. Lapwing-flying over
11. Black-headed Gull
12. Common Gull
13. Herring Gull
14. Lesser Blackback-including intermedius
15. Greater Blackback
16. Kittiwake-in spring breeding birds from the cliffs collect grass from fields to line their nests
17. Sandwich Tern-flyover
18. Feral Pigeon
19. Woodpigeon
20. Collared Dove
21. Green Woodpecker
22. Greater Spotted Woodepcker
23. Skylark-one appeared on the fields in hard weather this winter, they can also be heard singing from Seaford Head sometimes
24. Swift
25. Swallow
26. Sand Martin
27. Hose Martin
28. Tree Pipit-flies over in autumn
29. Meadow Pipit-same, also sometimes flyover in winter
30. Yellow Wagtail-autumn migrant
31. Grey Wagtail-autumn migrant and one bird overwinters on school grounds
32. Pied Wagtail-10+ around in winter, Alba also seen on two occasions
33. Wren
34. Dunnock
35. Robin
36. Fieldfare
37. Blackbird
38. Redwing
39. Song Thrush
40. Blackcap
41. Willow Warbler
42. Chiffchaff
43. Goldcrest
44. Long-tailed Tit
45. Blue Tit
46. Great Tit
47. Jay
48. Magpie
49. Jackdaw
50. Rook
51. Carrion Crow
52. Raven
53. Starling
54. House Sparrow
55. Chaffinch
56. Greenfinch
57. Goldfinch
58. Redpoll-autumn migrant
59. Linnet-autumn migrant and a pair bred on school grounds last year

Why did I start this thread? :-C:-C:-C

 

[Monahawk]

Birds were the bain of my school life. Never learnt much. Always looking at the birds on the playing fields or trees. Got me loads of detentions.

Si.

 

[Halcon]

Birds were the bain of my school life. Never learnt much. Always looking at the birds on the playing fields or trees. Got me loads of detentions.

Si.

I must say I never get detentions o ( or is it because there are never any interesting birds?:-C ) :-O

 

[gropperwinch]

I got a detention once for trying to explain what a species constitutes! (The poor fugger(mix of two profanities, you can figure it out yourselves) had probably just decided to take it easy on the normal kids, and had decided to include all gulls as one 'species'! I presume he meant 'family' but I had to correct him, and being a strict custard (another mix and match)he gave me a detention for backchattiing.


When I was six, we had to keep a diary at school over what we had done at the weekend, and I tried to write that I had seen a Wigeon, but my teacher assumed I meant a shucking pigeon! Sometimes teachers never learn!:-O


Otherwise, my detentions come mainly in the form of back-chatting, refusing to do work/writing silly things/writing an entire French essay in Spanish after my French teacher accused me of being small-minded to other people and only wanting to know the english language!I would like to learn French but my teacher had a hairy upper lip, a nervous disposition and an inability to relate to a teenager, and had decided to become a teacher! what was I supposed to do?

And actually Halcon my fairly good list comes from staring out the window from lessons wherever I can, and is helped by the fact we have several conifers in the school grounds, we are right next to the coast and are placed directly below a small migration route out over Seaford Head!

 

[Dark Knight]

I work as a lorry driver and have seen a few different birds over the years and these are the highlights :

Osprey
Red Kite ( including 21 whilst driving up the M40 )
Hobby
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Common Buzzard
Rough-legged Buzzard ( whilst parked up in Kent )
Marsh Harrier
Waxwing
Little Egret
Red Grouse
Common Redstart

Pied -Billed Grebe ( Ashford , Kent , had quite a job parking my lorry on site and got some strange looks , more than normal.....lol )

http://robs-birding.blogspot.com/

 

[birdboybowley]

Just glad you weren't my driving instructor - I'd have never passed, I was always being told off for watching the birds rather than the road, and stopping to let pigeons cross in town.

Nah, it would've been cool...today, we're off to Cornwall!! Watching birds whilst driving is a very useful skill to master unfortunately most of my students weren't that keen! In fact I remember driving past Ferry Pond with a lad that lived in Selsey and there were a load of birders on the path and he made a derogatory comment and I rebuked him saying I was 'one of them' too. He looked really taken aback and said - and I still remember this with pride - but you're way too cool to be a birdwatcher! Ah, happy days

 

[JTweedie]

Long out of school and work in the heavily built-up centre of Glasgow. If I look to the left I can just see the River Clyde at the end of the road, but as I sit away from the window I never get a chance to look in that direction. Therefore the only birds I can confidently claim from where I sit are: Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull and Feral Pigeon. I guess the occasional Black-headed Gull may stray a bit further up my street, but that's about it to be honest.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Not sure what my current work list is but did have an Oystercatcher flyover (not a first record tho). Some of the lists so far are very impressive!!

CB

 

[Jos Stratford]

First Serin of the year whilst showing pretence of work today.

 

[Joseph N]

I will give a total list of the birds I've seen at school, and that goes for all schools that I have been to.

1. Pink-footed Goose
2. Mallard
3. Common Buzzard
4. Sparrowhawk
5. Kestrel
6. Peregrine Falcon - Have seen a few over my current school
7. Pheasant
8. Oystercatcher
9. Lapwing
10. Curlew
11. Black-headed Gull
12. Common Gull
13. Herring Gull
14. Lesser Black Backed Gull
15. Great Black Backed Gull
16. Feral Pigeon
17. Wood Pigeon
18. Collared Dove
19. Swift
20. Skylark
21. Swallow
22. House Martin
23. Meadow Pipit
24. Pied Wagtail
25. Grey Wagtail
26. Wren
27. Waxwing -Several in my current school on good winters for Waxwings
28. Dunnock
29. Robin
30. Redwing
31. Fiedlfare
32. Blackbird
33. Willow Warbler
34. Chiffchaff
35. Goldcrest
36. Great Tit
37. Blue Tit
38. Coal Tit
39. Long-tailed Tit
40. Magpie
41. Jackdaw
42. Carrion Crow
43. Rook
44. Starling
45. House Sparrow
46. Chaffinch
47. Linnet
48. Goldfinch
49. Greenfinch

So nothing that's not common, but the highlight of them is definitely Waxwing. I've had them several times at the school I'm at right now with a record of 50 birds seen from the school hall whilst I was sitting in assembly in November 2008. Quite a lot of the species on that list were seen in my previous school, a private school out in the countryside.