Garden (Yard) List 2014 (1 Viewer)

[Richard Prior]

New birds over my place today - NATO jets! Thanks to some paranoia over Russian expansionism and possible moves on the Baltic States ...ha ha ha ... NATO has begun patrolling our airspace, so a little squadron of four jets in formation overhead today - my first record of a military jet in my airspace (Lithuanian army only has one jet, so they're proper rarities in this part of the world :-O )

You'd better get your old tin hat out from the shed Jos, "Don't panic Mr Stratford, don't panic"!
I had 3 new birds for the year all within a mile yesterday, but of course they haven't come to the garden - yet (Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler and Tawny Owl), so a bit frustrating. Still, no ice on the car this morning and it feels warmer, so not too surprised to see :

66 Common Swift

Richard

 

[Jos Stratford]

You'd better get your old tin hat out from the shed Jos, "Don't panic Mr Stratford, don't panic"!

Ei, Captain Mainwaring :t:

 

[Larry Lade]

42. Orange-crowned Warbler
43. Yellow Warbler
44. Orchard Oriole
45. Baltimore Oriole

 

[The Falcon]

129. Eastern Wood-Pewee
130. Olive-sided Flycatcher

 

[Jos Stratford]

Last wave of migrants appearing now, more Golden Orioles, Red-backed Shrikes, another Montagu's Harrier, plus three new as below (Garden Warbler not new in, but I always overlook them amongst singing Blackcaps!)

109. Garden Warbler
110. Marsh Warbler
111. Spotted Flycatcher


Still a few easy (ish) one to go, but going to start struggling for anymore soon

 

[joannec]

Last wave of migrants appearing now, more Golden Orioles, Red-backed Shrikes, another Montagu's Harrier, plus three new as below (Garden Warbler not new in, but I always overlook them amongst singing Blackcaps!)

109. Garden Warbler
110. Marsh Warbler
111. Spotted Flycatcher


Still a few easy (ish) one to go, but going to start struggling for anymore soon

.............I'm struggling already, Jos and have nowhere near as many as you!

 

[Jos Stratford]

.............I'm struggling already, Jos and have nowhere near as many as you!

A good few on your plot that I envy however :t:

Some birds will always be easier over here ...even in the busier parts of the downtown city, stuff like Pied Flycatchers breed on traffic islands and snippets of Thrush Nightingales echo out across the din of cars and trucks.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

New birds over my place today - NATO jets! Thanks to some paranoia over Russian expansionism and possible moves on the Baltic States ...ha ha ha ... NATO has begun patrolling our airspace, so a little squadron of four jets in formation overhead today - my first record of a military jet in my airspace (Lithuanian army only has one jet, so they're proper rarities in this part of the world :-O )

What sort of jets were they?

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Swift, House Martin and Whitethroat added last weekend

CB

 

[Jos Stratford]

What sort of jets were they?

Gee, that's stretching my id skills to a degree ...have to confess I was even jumping to conclusions assigning them to NATO - could have been the first wave of Russian jets for all I know

Mind you, had they been Russian, Lithuania's patriotic President would have been going berserk on the streets, so I think my little jump in identification was probably safe :t:

I will go away and try to identify them for you ...it was two pairs of jets of differing sorts, so two species I can say.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Suppose it depends which NATO country they have come from, Jos.

CB

 

[The Falcon]

131. Bay-breasted Warbler
132. Swainson's Thrush

 

[Jos Stratford]

What sort of jets were they?

Gee, that's stretching my id skills ... could have been the first wave of Russian jets for all I know

Done my homework

Wasn't that far out with the Russian joke - turns out two of them were Mig 29s (i.e. Russian), but belonging to Polish Airforce and other two were British Typhoons. Latter are real mean looking birds!

 

[Jos Stratford]

Decided to camp out last night aside my picnic table ...to a din of frogs and a distant booming Bittern, a warm night indeed and a rich assortment of voices punctuating the night - Thrush Nightingales surprisingly abundant, a lone River Warbler competing with the frogs and, krr krr krrr from the meadows, my first Corncrake of the season.

5.00 a.m., Icterine Warbler singing above the tent, Golden Orioles yodelling just yonder ...time to get up! Temperatures rose to 30 C this day, but before wilting added a couple of Black Terns over, one Lesser Spotted Eagle, one Hobby and my only Lesser Whitethroat of the year so far.


112. Corncrake
113. River Warbler
114. Lesser Whitethroat

 

[halftwo]

Gordon Bennett!
It's c13 c here and raining again.
And the birds are virtually non existent!

 

[Richard Prior]

The last of our summer migrant breeders arrived overnight and is singing away this morning just across the road:

67 Marsh Warbler

I'm missing quite a few species that are just a few miles away, hopefully some will wander up here, otherwise I'm in for a lean spell until the autumn migration begins in mid-July.

Richard

 

[joannec]

64) Hobby

 

[Chris-Leeds]

Only the 29th bird on the list but solitary house martin flew over this morning. A possible pair of cormorants at distance but didn't get on them before disappearing.

 

[The Falcon]

A couple new migrants from Friday night:

133. Blackpoll Warbler
134. Hooded Warbler

 

[timsg80]

A really horrible near miss this morning! I looked out of the kitchen window this morning to see a Stork species drifting past. I didn't have my binoculars on me, so ran to get them and then sprinted outside, but it had flown out of site! I can't believe it! I'm fairly certain it was a Black Stork, rather than White, but not certain enough. This is going to pain me for a long time.....