Garden/Yard List 2016 (1 Viewer)

[Nutcracker]

A wet 'stay-at-home' day boosted the list to 15:
01 Blue Tit *
02 Great Tit *
03 Woodpigeon *
04 Magpie *
05 Herring Gull
06 Black-headed Gull
07 Robin
08 Carrion Crow
09 Goldfinch
10 Bullfinch
11 Feral Pigeon
12 Jackdaw
13 Chaffinch *
14 Dunnock
15 GBB Gull

* actually in the 180 m² garden; rest in neighbouring gardens or flyovers

 

[Nutcracker]

16* Nice Mistler, within the garden too :t:

 

[joannec]

Here's my garden list from two rainy days:

1) Tawny Owl
2) Blue tit
3) Great Tit
4) Jay
5) Rook
6) Jackdaw
7) Magpie
8) Carrion Crow
9) Buzzard
10) House Sparrow
11) Great Spotted Woodpecker
12) Black-headed Gull
13) Herring Gull
14) Dunnock
15) Song Thrush
16) Wood Pigeon
17) Feral Pigeon
18) Robin
19) Chaffinch
20) Kestrel
21) Mistle Thrush
22) Pheasant
23) Starling
24) Wren

and best of all 25) Common Snipe which was absent all last year!

 

[Richard Prior]

Happy New Year everyone. A day late starting the Garden List after a 1st Jan foray into Switzerland. A late start today too after a shopping(well, for my wife at least) trip to Annecy this morning, where I braved the torential rain for half an hour waiting for the wintering Wallcreeper to appear on the chateau's tower. It clearly had more sense than me, presumably hunkering down inside the fortifications somewhere. Back home, watching through the window as the snow fell I got up to a moderately respectable 18 species, three of which I had to wait a long time for last year:
Blackbird
Great Tit
Marsh Tit
Blue Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Italian Sparrow
House Sparrow
Brambling
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Coal Tit
Fieldfare
Common Buzzard
Starling
Crested Tit (species number 87 last year)
Willow Tit (no.82 last year)
Pheasant (no.97 last year!)

 

[halftwo]

Amazing that you, Richard, & Joanne both have already had difficult species on day two!

Snipe is about once a year here - so one to hope for.

 

[Carol Baldock]

Happy New Year Richard, If I recall you had a foray into Switzerland & Annecy at the beginning of last year too. I love Annecy, although I have not been for many a year now. Nice to see that your Italian Sparrow is still alive and kicking too

 

[Carol Baldock]

A wet 'stay-at-home' day boosted the list to 15:
01 Blue Tit *
02 Great Tit *
03 Woodpigeon *
04 Magpie *
05 Herring Gull
06 Black-headed Gull
07 Robin
08 Carrion Crow
09 Goldfinch
10 Bullfinch
11 Feral Pigeon
12 Jackdaw
13 Chaffinch *
14 Dunnock
15 GBB Gull

* actually in the 180 m² garden; rest in neighbouring gardens or flyovers

Good to read and Happy New Year Nutcracker. Please could you tell us a little about your garden and yard and where you are based, to help put your sightings into perspective.
Thank you and best wishes, Carol

 

[Carol Baldock]

16* Nice Mistler, within the garden too :t:

That's a nice picture Nutcracker, thank you for sharing it.
We have a pair that we regularly see in and around our garden in rural and a long way inland, Norfolk.
They ( or perhaps their offspring?? ) have given us much pleasure, every year, since we moved to our home in 2001 :t::t:

 

[halftwo]

Mistle Thrush is the only new bird so far today too.

Raining again here.

 

[Richard Prior]

Five species added this afternoon, our daily Robin seems to have gone AWOL though!
19 Bullfinch
20 Nuthatch
21 Great spotted Woodpecker
22 Collared Dove
23 Raven

 

[Nutcracker]

Please could you tell us a little about your garden and yard and where you are based, to help put your sightings into perspective.

Suburban, southeast Northumbs.; as mentioned 180 m², i.e., pretty small.

'Upgraded' Goldfinch from neighbours garden to inside today.

 

[Carol Baldock]

Suburban, southeast Northumbs.; as mentioned 180 m², i.e., pretty small.

'Upgraded' Goldfinch from neighbours garden to inside today.

Thank you, Are you far from the coast ? Northumberland is a beautiful county :t:

 

[Nutcracker]

A little way inland, too far for any interesting passage migrants, unfortunately :-(

 

[Jos Stratford]

It seems that you all leave me in the dust already in the start.

Don't worry, I'm still on zero :t:

 

[halftwo]

Don't worry, I'm still on zero :t:

Another seasonal trip?

Siskin & Great-spotted Woodpecker so far this morning = 35

Edit: while having breakfast a garden mega and a fourth for the day close on it's heals :

RED-BREASTED MERGANSER & Peregrine

 

[Richard Prior]

Another seasonal trip?

Siskin & Great-spotted Woodpecker so far this morning = 35

Edit: while having breakfast a garden mega and a fourth for the day close on it's heals :

RED-BREASTED MERGANSER & Peregrine

Blimey, a Merg over the garden, did you put whisky on your cereal instead of milk??

I see Jos is braving the European winter in, err, Texas.

 

[Warixenjalka]

I thought that Jos must be somewhere in Syria...

Couple additions for my garden list:

#7. Jackdaw
#8. Magpie
#9. Yellowhammer
#10. Feral Pigeon
#11. Great Spotted Woody

and ofcourse I have to mention that snow has came to my garden too.

 

[Larry Lade]

2016 yard birds
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American Crow
American Goldfinch
Black-capped Chickadee
Blue Jay
Carolina Wren
Common Grackle
Dark-eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker
European Starling
House Finch
House Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird

15 species

 

[Carol Baldock]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206736252257799&set=pcb.10206736264218098&type=3

a visitor to the garden at 8.50am, this morning


we also had some very exciting bird visitors too today, yesterday and the day before- will update further tomorrow , as been a long day today

 

[The Falcon]

My yard list so far for 2016;

1. Canada Goose
2. Mourning Dove
3. Blue Jay
4. American Crow
5. Common Raven
6. Black-capped Chickadee
7. White-breasted Nuthatch
8. Snow Bunting

I moved last November (2015) so this year's yard list should be interesting.