Garden / Yard List 2015 (1 Viewer)

[KenM]

Congrats, Ken. What a beaut!
There are a lot about - but I don't think my inland garden will have one passing by.
Nearest I came to that was a singing Chiffchaff in the frosty morning today!

Cheers H...present again at 8.30am (didn't get a shot), also got this stunning ''blighter'' at last! plus, after an absence of c 2 years not one, but two male Passer domesticus, no.75.....and an odd Phyllosc which I've put on QA. :t:

 

[BrendaA]

What an excellent photo Ken .

 

[KenM]

What an excellent photo Ken .

Cheers Brenda :t:

 

[Warixenjalka]

Wow Ken! Excellent birds. I have been hoping to see those (YBW's) in my garden. 'Cos they have been quite numerous here at this autumn. Not that I have seen those anywhere, but Big Boys have told me...
Regulus would be nice too, no matter - witch one - gold or fire crest. Both are very welcome. Though Firecrest woud be a mega at anywhere in Finland.

Anyway, one new Phylloscopus popted my garden:

#53. Chiffchaff

Also at wednesday afternoon, 11 Buzzards circling above garden.

 

[KenM]

Also at wednesday afternoon, 11 Buzzards circling above garden.

The most I've had outback is 3....Eight years ago there would have been none!

They have undergone a tremendous increase in the SE UK in recent years.

Have they undergone expansion in your "neck of the woods" recently, or have they always been numerous? :t:

 

[Larry Lade]

One new yard bird for the year here in St. Joseph, Missouri:

Nashville Warbler dropped down by the little pond in our backyard.

 

[Jos Stratford]

Have they undergone expansion in your "neck of the woods" recently, or have they always been numerous? :t:

Presumably similar in Finland to my north, always been common, plus are migrating now ...drifts of tens or more not unusual this time of year.

 

[Jos Stratford]

Grain feeder raided again. Camera replaced to check the action over the next nights.

Two nights of rampage, feeder trashed again ...but got the guilty party on camera this time, video to follow :t:

 

[KenM]

Presumably similar in Finland to my north, always been common, plus are migrating now ...drifts of tens or more not unusual this time of year.

Interesting....makes me wonder where the expansion in the SE UK
has come from...the near continent or the West?

 

[Nutcracker]

The most I've had outback is 3....Eight years ago there would have been none!

They have undergone a tremendous increase in the SE UK in recent years.

Have they undergone expansion in your "neck of the woods" recently, or have they always been numerous? :t:

Just eastern Britain, where the population is recovering after being eradicated by gamekeepers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Other regions (mostly) didn't suffer this problem (Ireland also did though).

Sadly, illegal persecution continues in many parts of Britain, slowing down the recovery (and preventing it altogether for Hen Harriers) :-C:-C:-C

 

[joannec]

Interesting....makes me wonder where the expansion in the SE UK
has come from...the near continent or the West?

My view is in southern England they have come from the west. They are more common in West Sussex than in East Sussex and until recently they were uncommon in Kent.

(The highest number I have seen at once from my garden is 11, last year.)

 

[Warixenjalka]

The most I've had outback is 3....Eight years ago there would have been none!

They have undergone a tremendous increase in the SE UK in recent years.

Have they undergone expansion in your "neck of the woods" recently, or have they always been numerous? :t:

Buzzards are decreasing in some scale. But I don't have any clue how good this summer was for them. Those 11 birds was migrating from somewhere north, Finland or North-West Russia.

I haven't seen any local buzzards at whole summer.

Sparwks are commonest pop here.

 

[KenM]

After an ''eventful'' week, just when I thought it was all over...a glance at the Hawthorn and I thought I was dreaming!....as it flew off and landed atop a distant Hornbeam before departing, allowing me a ''single misty'' shot...am still numb!

 

[Peter C.]

Sunday, October 4:

28) Hermit Thrush

 

[Richard Prior]

A bit overdue this one, but it's rarer here than its Water or Tree cousins:


94 Meadow Pipit

 

[Jos Stratford]

So, over 100 kg of grain vanished, the feeder box trashed over several nights, the culprits finally slipped up and revealed themselves on film...

Click here - Wreckers of the Night - for the video, the full damage comes towards the end

 

[BrendaA]

Hi Jos, huge and active!!! How can you stop it not happening again ?

So, over 100 kg of grain vanished, the feeder box trashed over several nights, the culprits finally slipped up and revealed themselves on film...

Click here - Wreckers of the Night - for the video, the full damage comes towards the end

 

[Jos Stratford]

Hi Jos, huge and active!!! How can you stop it not happening again ?

Reinforce the box :-O

Will put a feeding platform on the bottom that can support a boar standing on it, then add fastenings to the roof.

 

[halftwo]

Do you like wild boar sausages?

How about legs to raise it out of reach?

 

[Warixenjalka]

Jos, you must do the following food box from logs. And put there few padlocks on those roof sections. If even that be enough - you have to make it from concrete!