Garden (Yard) List 2012 (1 Viewer)

[dantheman]

Casually walking through the bosom of two Hawthorns, I entered into an open scrubby area whereupon I espied a Redwing sized round ''black blob'', perched perhaps 10' up and 25m away in a young Oak. As I trained my bins...the silhouette morphed into an ''intense'' block of colour..hard white tail tips contrasting against a ginger rest of tail and rump, cloaked in a rich brown mantle and topped with blue grey nape and ginger head looking straight at me! all out of a neutral grey/brown background.

I was struggling to get the camera out of the case and set the zoom...when a dog walker appeared out of nowhere...and off it flew! The moral to this sad tale is when in the field....always be extended

Those dead leaves sure can be flighty ...


(Nice one :t: )

 

[Jabberwocky]

I presume not of the temperature :-O


But before Dan calls for a ban again, please note I have not reached even 20 species yet in either the garden or feeding station.

I'll add my list then while I'm still ahead of someone, it'll not last for long!

2/1/12
1) House Sparrow
2)Tree Sparrow
3)Greenfinch
4)Chaffinch
5)Goldfinch
6)Fieldfare
7)Woodpigeon
8)Collared Dove
9)Moorhen
10)Great Tit
11)Dunnock
12)Blue Tit
13)Blackbird
14)Coal Tit
15)Robin
16)Kestrel
17)Great Spotted Woodpecker
18)Magpie
19)Yellowhammer
20)Wren
21)Sparrowhawk
22)Bullfinch
23)Pheasant
4/1/12
24)Song thrush
25)Marsh Tit
7/1/12
26)Tawny Owl
8/1/12
27)Stock Dove
28)Reed Bunting
14/1/12
29)Jay
30)Long-tailed Tit
24/1/12
31)Green Woodpecker
26/1/12
32)Starling
Yesterday
33)Skylark
Today
34)Mistle Thrush

All but the Skylark have been in the garden. No flyovers yet, they're not to frequent here. I only had 8 out of a total of 56 for the whole of last year.

The Skylark was singing yesterday in the stubble field next to the garden.

Lewis

 

[KenM]

I'll add my list then while I'm still ahead of someone, it'll not last for long!

1) House Sparrow
2)Tree Sparrow
9)Moorhen
19)Yellowhammer
22)Bullfinch
23)Pheasant
25)Marsh Tit
28)Reed Bunting
33)Skylark

All but the Skylark have been in the garden. No flyovers yet, they're not to frequent here. I only had 8 out of a total of 56 for the whole of last year.

The Skylark was singing yesterday in the stubble field next to the garden.

Lewis

I'm confident that...I won't be seeing 6 out of the 9 listed (and the odds are not good for the remainder)...25 years ago it was a different story!....global warming underlining the North/South divide!

 

[KenM]

Those dead leaves sure can be flighty ...

(Nice one :t: )

Cheers Dan you ID'd that without an Image!...

 

[edenwatcher]

A bit of movement over the w/e.
54. pintail (2 pairs)
55. whooper swan (32 - a good count)
56. great tit
57. long-tailed duck (9)
58. slavonian grebe
59. long-tailed tit

Still pretty miserable total wise, but it feels better.

Rob

 

[edenwatcher]

and another this morning ...
60. shoveler (a nice drake).

Rob

 

[MrBruce]

Only just found this thread.....

1. Blue tit
2. Great tit
3. Coal tit
4. Dunnock
5. Robin
6. Long tailed tit
7. Blackbird
8. Song thrush
9. House sparrow
10. Chaffinch
11. Brambling
12. Goldfinch
13. Greenfinch
14. Siskin
15. Bullfinch
16. Blackcap
17. Nuthatch
18. Goldcrest
19. Wren
20. Jackdaw
21. Magpie
22. Collard dove
23. Carrion Crow
24. Wood pigeon
25. Sparrow hawk
26. Herring Gull
27. Raven
28. Black headed gull
29. Mistle thrush
30. Pied wagtail
31. Tawny owl

Most of these birds are seen in the trees directly opposite my garden which measures less than 3 x 3 metres....

 

[Jane Turner]

5 gardens with Raven now-that is really quite a surprise. 188 species in all and no one admitting to a Grey Wagtail!

 

[joannec]

43) Canada Goose

 

[Jane Turner]

Canada is new for all lists,but you have already got Lapwing Joan!

http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=2329604&postcount=70

Grief I feel like Lee now!

 

[joannec]

Canada is new for all lists,but you have already got Lapwing Joan!

http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=2329604&postcount=70

Grief I feel like Lee now!

Ooops........ have corrected it.

 

[KenM]

5 gardens with Raven now-that is really quite a surprise. 188 species in all and no one admitting to a Grey Wagtail!

Get them almost daily.....

 

[Larry Lade]

# 11 Bird for 2012 Garden/Yard List

Finally got # 11 for the year!

11. House Finch (x4)

* I need to stay home a bit more!

 

[Jabberwocky]

I'm confident that...I won't be seeing 6 out of the 9 listed (and the odds are not good for the remainder)...25 years ago it was a different story!....global warming underlining the North/South divide!

That makes me appreciate what I do see here. I can go back a bit more than 25 years. The only regulars I don't see now are Grey Partridge and Spotted Flycatcher. On the plus side I've gained Sparrowhawk and Common Buzzard. Even saw a Perigrine from the garden last year, the first since '79.

 

[Larry Lade]

12. American Crow
13. European Starling

 

[KenM]

No year additions today...although Redpolls increased to 20..a grdn. record! Redwings on occasion into double figures inside the garden..and triple figures outside, with continuous streaming in 30's, 20's, 10's etc. almost continuously throughout the day. Plus my 4th ever visit of Fieldfare...on the grdn.hedges (threw a dozen apples out this evening, hoping for a photo shoot opportunity tomorrow). In all 21 species in!...and 11 out! Hoping this forthcoming cold snap from Siberia..might just produce something....

 

[Jos Stratford]

Getting rather cool out there just now - minus 28 C to greet me this morning in the garden. Set to be colder tomorrow. Crested Tits prominent by their absence this morning, I do hope they have not become victims of the cold.

Four Siskins dropping in took the garden total up by one.



Labanoras remains at 17 species


Vilnius


13. Siskin


All other birds puffed out like little tennis balls.

 

[Larry Sweetland]

just come home for lunch to see a Mistle Thrush from our front yard, taking the garden list to 41....could it make 50 one day??

on the down side, the overgrown garden next door is being cleared today, and was the only haven in the area for Wren and Robin, so I guess we'll be losing regular sightings of them :-C

 

[Laurie93]

Might as well add my list.
I'm on 34.

Jackdaw
Long-tailed Tit
Blackbird
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Blue Tit
Robin
Dunnock
Carrion Crow
Wood Pigeon
Magpie
Greenfinch
Great Tit
Chaffinch
Blackcap
Feral Pigeon
Black-headed Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Song Thrush
Sparrow Hawk
Buzzard
Shelduck
Pied Wagtail
Cormorant
Lapwing
Little Egret
Wren
Starling
Raven
Grey Heron
Goldcrest
Bullfinch
Redwing
Chiffchaff

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Might as well add my list.
I'm on 34.

Jackdaw
Long-tailed Tit
Blackbird
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Blue Tit
Robin
Dunnock
Carrion Crow
Wood Pigeon
Magpie
Greenfinch
Great Tit
Chaffinch
Blackcap
Feral Pigeon
Black-headed Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Song Thrush
Sparrow Hawk
Buzzard
Shelduck
Pied Wagtail
Cormorant
Lapwing
Little Egret
Wren
Starling
Raven
Grey Heron
Goldcrest
Bullfinch
Redwing
Chiffchaff

A UK garden list of 34 that includes Little Egret is a great sign of the times