Garden (Yard) List 2014 (2 Viewers)

[timsg80]

33. Magpie
34. Mallard
35. Snipe
A bit of a late flurry this evening, hopefully a sign of things to come!

 

[Richard Prior]

Sunday night's snow and strong winds up here seems to have shaken a few birds out of the forest and within range of the garden:

28 Sparrowhawk
29 Crested Tit

So, I've now got two raptors on Joanne's 'Garden List 2014 Birds of Prey Mini-League'!

Photo for Ken of a Hawfinch in the garden last March, keep dreaming!

Richard

 

[KenM]

Sunday night's snow and strong winds up here seems to have shaken a few birds out of the forest and within range of the garden:

28 Sparrowhawk
29 Crested Tit

So, I've now got two raptors on Joanne's 'Garden List 2014 Birds of Prey Mini-League'!

Photo for Ken of a Hawfinch in the garden last March, keep dreaming!

Richard

Fantastic shot Richard...can't compete there!...but I can here!...jaw-dropped then panicked, as I reached for the camera.

A very diurnal nocturnal!

 

[The Falcon]

16. Wild Turkey
17. Common Raven

 

[KenM]

Three Mallard over this am....no.47.

cheers

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Garden mega at the weekend - Merlin!!

CB

 

[halftwo]

Great stuff, CB. I hope one flies past my house again this year.

 

[Kitschy]

1 American Crow
2 Western Red Tailed Hawk
3 Ruby Crowned Kinglet
4 Golden Crowned Kinglet
5 Black Capped Chickadee
6 Anna's Hummingbird
6 Pileated Woodpecker
7 Harried Woodpecker
8 Ferral Pigeon

 

[Richard Prior]

Ken's Tawny made me 'owl with jealousy!

Three good ones added in the last couple of days, unfortunately I realised I'd counted Common Buzzard twice, so the 15 Crossbills this morning replace the duplication, the other two are:

30 Willow Tit
31 Golden Eagle

Richard

 

[KenM]

Ken's Tawny made me 'owl with jealousy!

Three good ones added in the last couple of days, unfortunately I realised I'd counted Common Buzzard twice, so the 15 Crossbills this morning replace the duplication, the other two are:

30 Willow Tit
31 Golden Eagle

Richard

Wow!...Why do I sense that you could be a ''contender''....I had hoped it would make you Gr-owl with envy so much...that you might throw in the T-owl!

 

[joannec]

Garden mega at the weekend - Merlin!!

CB

Great bird for the garden list!

......................the other two are:

30 Willow Tit
31 Golden Eagle

Richard

And two I'll never get.

 

[Debbie1905]

Considering I live 20 yards north of the beach and 20 yards south of the local park, you'd think I would be inundated, but also live half a mile from the town centre... This is my 'birds seen from my kitchen table' list:

1. Wood Pigeon
2. Collared Dove
3. Feral Pigeon
4. Black-headed Gull
5. Herring Gull
6. Carrion Crow
7. Blue Tit
8. Great Tit
9. Robin
10. Starling
11. House Sparrow
12. Chaffinch (once)
13. Goldfinch (twice)
14. Sparrowhawk (once)
15. Dunnock
16. Blackbird

 

[Richard Prior]

Wow!...Why do I sense that you could be a ''contender''....I had hoped it would make you Gr-owl with envy so much...that you might throw in the T-owl!

Yup, this garden listing's such a hoot isn't it

 

[Jos Stratford]

Minus 20 C continuing, plus windy ( a little unusual), taking it to minus 29 wind chill. The kitchen window Hawfinch (a female) has gone double today, a male also present.

Better though, the continuing House Sparrow - from autumn, daily till today (till this individual, two sole records of one day birds). Haven't seen the hybrids on a while though.

 

[Bananafishbones]

30. Grey Heron checking out the flooded gardens in our close.

Not added to my list but a change of Sparrowhawks this morning..... always the male that visits here virtually everyday, however a female this morning.

 

[KenM]

Circa 26 Redpoll, to include 2 Mealy (a site record for cabaret and flammea) this am, 5 Siskin, 1 Goldfinch also singing Song Thrush, roosting Tawny Owl being ''squawked'' by Jays and a flyover Legret ''kissing'' my tallest conifer before landing on a distant neighbour's Oak tree. Proving that...even on a cold damp grey day, the Sun can shine.

 

[Bananafishbones]

31. Buzzard - Low flying and being harassed by plenty of Carrion Crows
32. Mallard

 

[Jos Stratford]

Bitter cold wind blasting today, no additions, but a short ringing session at me feeding station did net two White-backed Woodpeckers and a Grey-headed Woodpecker, all retraps it has to be said.

 

[halftwo]

Pretty icy here too (see my Holmfirth thread) & a gale yesterday. Strong winds still but a little less cold today. Plenty of movement - including another Goosander scudding down the valley.

Large gulls included a flock of

Great Black-Backs: 45.

 

[KenM]

First one since late August, a flyover Common Buzzard...no.48.