Jane Turner
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Likewise...I've seen a Spoonbill, but I couldn't have ID'd it in the heat haze had Inot know it was there....would be the 200th for the house too.
58)Nightingale ooooo
I am so pleased! This is my crowning glory species that I see and hear every year. It has bred within yards of my garden but in recent years I've been really concerned because of a huge build up of Fallow Deer numbers: there is a herd of 40+ that I see daily.........nice you may think........but they graze the understory of the woods mercilessly and the habitat that Nightingales like is being slowly destroyed by their browsing. In my own way I am encouraging a scrubby area of Blackthorn and brambles and nettles and this is where it's been today. I am so happy!!!!!!!! I really really hope he attracts a mate and stays!
Don't expect me to post anything more remotely interesting ... I just used up my yard list luck for several years at least!
Yesterday I had two Fish Crows fly across chasing a red-tailed hawk. Fish crows are far from a common species here: there are less than 20 records for the province, and this is the first county record!
This should have been 28, and with a few more common raptors:
29. Fish Crow
30. Turkey Vulture
31. Sharp-shinned Hawk
58)Nightingale ooooo
I am so pleased! This is my crowning glory species that I see and hear every year. It has bred within yards of my garden but in recent years I've been really concerned because of a huge build up of Fallow Deer numbers: there is a herd of 40+ that I see daily.........nice you may think........but they graze the understory of the woods mercilessly and the habitat that Nightingales like is being slowly destroyed by their browsing. In my own way I am encouraging a scrubby area of Blackthorn and brambles and nettles and this is where it's been today. I am so happy!!!!!!!! I really really hope he attracts a mate and stays!
58)Nightingale ooooo
I am so pleased! This is my crowning glory species that I see and hear every year. It has bred within yards of my garden but in recent years I've been really concerned because of a huge build up of Fallow Deer numbers: there is a herd of 40+ that I see daily.........nice you may think........but they graze the understory of the woods mercilessly and the habitat that Nightingales like is being slowly destroyed by their browsing. In my own way I am encouraging a scrubby area of Blackthorn and brambles and nettles and this is where it's been today. I am so happy!!!!!!!! I really really hope he attracts a mate and stays!
Nice one
Love the story of the nightingale. Hope you get your wish and they breed. Fabulous birds.
Wonderful....and I'm very jealous
Well done on Nightingale habitat management, Joanne..
The all garden list is 279. 928 species/garden/years and Swallow is the fastest riser up the charts