Garden (Yard) List 2014 (1 Viewer)

[KenM]

Two more for me:

74) Honey-buzzard
75) Whinchat

Don't think I'll be catching you this year Joanne! As for Honey Buzzard..G-r-r-r-r! :-C

 

[Richard Prior]

Never mind Ken, here's a photo I took through our window this afternoon to cheer you up. These cheeky birds fill their crops with hazelnuts, and then put 'one for the road' in their bill to carry them back up to the mountain :-O

 

[KenM]

Never mind Ken, here's a photo I took through our window this afternoon to cheer you up. These cheeky birds fill their crops with hazelnuts, and then put 'one for the road' in their bill to carry them back up to the mountain :-O

Won't ever see Nutcracker in the garden! But I can meet it ''half-way'' with this ''little cracker'' shot from the bedroom window the other day.

 

[halftwo]

A flock of Greylag geese came past this morning.

No.79

 

[Richard Prior]

We should start a Through the Window List 2015 next year (or perhaps not, we need the fresh air after all....)!
Can't match you for quality H2, but while peeling the spuds this little chap was outside the kitchen window (has anyone managed a bird photo from the - err - bathroom window yet?
It had a tail, but must have wagged it sideways as I pressed the shutter, that's my excuse anyway

 

[Gladiator96]

has anyone managed a bird photo from the - err - bathroom window yet?

Most of the birds on my house list were seen from the bathroom window lol :-O

Best ones include common sandpiper, whinchat and icterine warbler.

Pics all taken from bathrrom window o

 

[timsg80]

Two additions this morning, with a Skylark migrating over and a fantastic Grey Wagtail by our pond. The sky here is filled with Swallows and House Martins, with loads of Mipits going over. I'm hoping for a few new additions for the year this weekend- a Yellow-browed Warbler would be nice!

68. Skylark
69. Grey Wagtail

 

[timsg80]

70. Stonechat
One was on top of a hedge next to the garden this afternoon.

 

[Jos Stratford]

70. Stonechat
One was on top of a hedge next to the garden this afternoon.

Oo, I'd be happy to get a Stonechat ...


Heavy visible migration today, many thousands of Chaffinches heading south, small numbers of Brambling and Skylark. Also good movements of Great Tits (some hundreds moving south).

 

[Richard Prior]

Heavy visible migration today, many thousands of Chaffinches heading south, small numbers of Brambling and Skylark. Also good movements of Great Tits (some hundreds moving south).

Interesting, no sign of that sort of movement here yet, though we had our first autumn flock of c20Hawfinches yesterday.
Highlight of a lovely balmy day today was a young Osprey circling overhead during our al fresco lunch,we weren't even eating fish
That's 2 Osprey in the month, after only one in the previous 7 years!

Richard

 

[timsg80]

Oo, I'd be happy to get a Stonechat ...

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I'd happily trade it for any one of the amazing species you've had!

 

[Warixenjalka]

I haven't seen any new birds in my garden in a while. But I have forgotten to add this (seen at August):

#50. Caspian Tern (Actually this was no: 48. Willow W. and Raven seen after this.)

Lots of gooses fly over my garden on these days, but everyone I can recognize are Barnacles.

 

[joannec]

76) Woodcock

 

[halftwo]

76) Woodcock

ooh! I keep hoping for this - a possible I feel, as they are around my house. Only three between us, Joanne!

 

[Warixenjalka]

At October 1st I put feeding station on my garden (Night temperatures are near zero Celsius-degree at here). Result: Loads of birds in garden yesterday. Dozens and dozens Tree Sparrows, Great- and Blue Tits, couple of Chaffinches, Starlings and Magpies. A few Crow and one Willow Warbler (but he didn't use the feeding station to advantage of). Also present was couple of Jackdaws and Wood Pigeons, but I didn't see them to use feeding station. And there was one new Garden bird too:

# 51. House Sparrow!

 

[halftwo]

A cracking morning today, with Swallows passing, the first autumn Common gulls, a Tree sparrow IN the garden, Sparrowhawks & Kestrels, finches & a single

80: Snipe

over, all blown about in the gale.

 

[joannec]

ooh! I keep hoping for this - a possible I feel, as they are around my house. Only three between us, Joanne!

Only the second time ever here. Must be the warm weather but I heard it call just after dusk.

 

[Richard Prior]

I've put up a feeder as well this past week, a Tree Sparrow would be nice!
As for seeing/hearing passing Snipe or Woodcock, that remains a dream - I keep listening at dusk and dawn but all I hear are the local hunters' dogs (it's that time of year here in France when it's safer to stay in the garden rather than risk birding in the forest:C).
First Brambling of the 'winter' flew over on 1st October, so it took a few days to get here from Jos' patch!

 

[halftwo]

Strangely, after nine months plus without one, two more Snipe this morning!

Unfortunately the rain beat the dawn this morning, so no passage stuff.

 

[Larry Lade]

48. Barred Owl