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Garden List 2011 (1 Viewer)
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joannec
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WOW H!!! You're on 76 and it's only April. Last you had a total garden list of 80, as I recall. 2011 will surely be a record year for your garden.
I went out early this morning and counted 17 Yellowhammers! Lots of other goodies too including Whitethroat but no more for the garden today.
I went out early this morning and counted 17 Yellowhammers! Lots of other goodies too including Whitethroat but no more for the garden today.
Cheshire Birder
Well-known member
First Blackcap added now.
CB
CB
My 2011 garden list is
House sparrow
Blackbird
Starling
Black headed gull
Carrion crow
Jackdaw
Rook
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Buzzard
Dunnock
Redwing
Woodpigeon
Feral pigeon
Collared dove
Herring gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Common gull
Mallard
Grey heron
Pink footed goose
Roobin
Oystercatcher
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Goldfinch
House sparrow
Blackbird
Starling
Black headed gull
Carrion crow
Jackdaw
Rook
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Buzzard
Dunnock
Redwing
Woodpigeon
Feral pigeon
Collared dove
Herring gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Common gull
Mallard
Grey heron
Pink footed goose
Roobin
Oystercatcher
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Goldfinch
Jos Stratford
Beast from the East
Yikes, steaming away there H, slow down a tad, I am way back inthe chasing pack!
In Vilnius garden this week (not totalling this garden), a pair of Crossbills making much noise and returning to pines att he garden's end day after day, maybe breeding,that would be good. Also a couple of Hawfinch and, first ever, a Starling actually on my peanut feeder (summer visitors here, so whilst they breed in boxes in the garden, not a feeder visitor till now).
halftwo
Wird Batcher
Whitethroat already, Joanne! April 18th. is my earliest patch date!
Weird that today should bring both Yellowhammer and Linnet - either lost in fog or spring local movements.
Hawfinch! now that's quality. So is Crossbill - one-off here.
Blue tits started building today, and it looks like the Blackcaps will be bramble patchers soon - female prospecting. And there is a pair of Tree sparrows are nesting in the tree in the front.
Have been out to check the steeple - no show on the Peregrine-front. There was a Buzzard tucking into something substantial in near-darkness, as rabbits sprinted around the same field.
Jos Stratford
Beast from the East
How about swopsies? Hawfinch reasonably common in my garden, but never had a Peregrine fly-by, not in Vilnius garden or Labanoras.
halftwo
Wird Batcher
Well, that Peregrine was on the steeple this morning! Despite not being present after dark last night - so another night time arrival; strange.
That was one of six species not recorded yesterday that were here today before 7am. (Gtr. 'pecker, Tawny owl, Willow warbler, Treecreeper - two fighting in next door's ash! - and a fly by Gt. black-backed.)
So in twenty-four hours a grand total of 56 species from the garden. This is definitely a record for me.
A Fox running across the adjacent field was a scarce sighting too. At dawn the Blackbirds were deafening.
KenM
Well-known member
halftwo;2110483 So in twenty-four hours a grand total of 56 species from the garden. This is definitely a record for me. [/QUOTE said:I got a pair of Grey lags flying over on thursday which puts me on 56 for the year!...think I'll need 'divine intervention' to get me into your slipstream.
cheers
Jan-Paul Charteris
Sussex birder and budding moth enthusiast
Well my garden list is naff, but will have to add it up. Had decent fly-overs though eg Turnstone being chased by Peregrine, Oystercatcher, Common Sand, a Peregrine nestbox easily viewable from the end of my bed, and last weekend added Marsh Harrier, Red Kite and Buzzard to the garden flyover list!
Jan
Jan
halftwo
Wird Batcher
A strangely quiet couple of days here - my second Swallow and House martin of the year, but nothing like friday's total.
Got up early to see the Peregrine & watch him fly off. Stuck it out for forty minutes and went to make a cuppa & thaw out. (Treecreeper again on next door's tree, Greylag over).
Five minutes later back out - Peregrine gone!!! Grrr.
23c max yesterday!
Got up early to see the Peregrine & watch him fly off. Stuck it out for forty minutes and went to make a cuppa & thaw out. (Treecreeper again on next door's tree, Greylag over).
Five minutes later back out - Peregrine gone!!! Grrr.
23c max yesterday!
Jos Stratford
Beast from the East
Cold northerlies, even a flurry of snow, slowing everything down - few migrants on the move, quite a contrast to a week ago.
Two new for the year today, one big and mighty, one small and humble. First up was White-tailed Eagle, a fine adult soaring over the feeding station before drifting across the meadows and round back to the forest. Second was Dunnock, a fairly secretive summer bird out here - they do breed in my forest, but I infrequently see them. Today's was at the feeders, the first I have seen actually using my feeders.
Also a couple of Green Sandpipers, the White Storks mating upon their nest, and another Waxwing surprise, a flock of about 30 pasing over my land. Forest lake still frozen, though getting a tad dodgy to walk on (dog crashed throught the ice today), but Mallard back on the smaller pools, more and more flowers appearing int he meadows.
60.White-tailed Eagle.
61. Dunnock.
Two new for the year today, one big and mighty, one small and humble. First up was White-tailed Eagle, a fine adult soaring over the feeding station before drifting across the meadows and round back to the forest. Second was Dunnock, a fairly secretive summer bird out here - they do breed in my forest, but I infrequently see them. Today's was at the feeders, the first I have seen actually using my feeders.
Also a couple of Green Sandpipers, the White Storks mating upon their nest, and another Waxwing surprise, a flock of about 30 pasing over my land. Forest lake still frozen, though getting a tad dodgy to walk on (dog crashed throught the ice today), but Mallard back on the smaller pools, more and more flowers appearing int he meadows.
60.White-tailed Eagle.
61. Dunnock.
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halftwo
Wird Batcher
Another gloriously sunny day today in Cheshire, in contrast to Lithuania, with the predicted Orange tip on the wing, and another Comma. (I'd earlier said to MrsH. that, with the warmth, it wouldn't be long before an Orange tip appeared!).
But birds not very obliging. Lots of gardening got done and the BOPs were up - always worth watching. This time, as six Buzzards and two Sparrowhawks circled, something heading rapidly my way turned out to be a surprise
77 : Goosander!
But birds not very obliging. Lots of gardening got done and the BOPs were up - always worth watching. This time, as six Buzzards and two Sparrowhawks circled, something heading rapidly my way turned out to be a surprise
77 : Goosander!
joannec
Well-known member
Lone Swallow going North over the tree tops! my first for the year, am now on 57...look out halftwo...I'm only twenty behind!
And I'm 13 behind!...............no hirundines, no WW.........hardly any migrants...............but there is hope and DRAMA. The last few days have seen in interloper buzzard. I know it is a new one because it is exceptionally pale and unlike the resident few and they don't like him/her. Lots of agro and chasing away but he/she keeps coming back!
...............might go to see the Little Crake tomorrow; it's the other side of Sussex but it would be my first lifer of the year if I see it.
KenM
Well-known member
Like you Joanne...I've only had Chiff Chaff and Swallow! (Blackcap are almost resident), thus am looking forward to the next few weeks.
halftwo
Wird Batcher
am now on 57...look out halftwo...I'm only twenty behind!
I think you'll both do a lot of catching up. This year, of the birds I expected to get, there are only five or six more left! That would mean 82 or 83. However, so far, I've seen four completely unexpected species...so there's always scope.
A few years ago I made a predictions list - 36 species on it of the more likely candidates to be seen from here. To date I've seen ten of them. BUT I've seen five not-predicted species.
Of course there are an almost endless list of possible vagrants that might fly over or alight, which is why the interest goes on.
Keep on looking folks!
Jos Stratford
Beast from the East
16 behind, but all my summer birds yet to arrive, so should narrow that gap over the next couple of weeks ...if spring ever arrives - after a pleasant sunny day, cold and wet now, barely above freezing
