Garden/Yard List 2016 (1 Viewer)

[Jos Stratford]

Crisp layer of snow, minus 20 C overnight, warming to minus 15 C during the day. After a spell out of the country, trudged across to replenish the feeders today ...only a brief look round, but did get the 2016 year list started, albeit rather modestly:

1. White-tailed Eagle - 1 adult (rare bird on my land in winter, but started last year in similar style I seem to remember)
2. Great Spotted Woodpecker
3. Middle Spotted Woodpecker
4. Great Tit
5. Blue Tit
6. Marsh Tit
7. Raven
8. Jay
9. Magpie

 

[Warixenjalka]

Thermometer this morning
and
Some bugger has a winter food storage collected in full.

 

[BrendaA]

I agree, but Goldfinches are nice too, unfortunately Brenda seems to have stolen mine

Just two species added today before the snow started in earnest:

24 Robin
25 Jay

The Goldfinches are happier here with me Richard .Have also 16 blue tits ,4 great tits, 3 lovely long tailed tits , several chaffinch and bramblings. Never seen a Jay or not yet!

 

[Carol Baldock]

Female Woodpecker visiting the garden to feed. Love to see her head banging our lawn. Rare to see her,The male, of our resident pair, is much more common. Really Blustery & Rain. 2pm. Saxlingham Green

 

[Richard Prior]

With Jos' minus 20 and Wari's near minus 30 I feel less inclined to complain about the sleet and snow here, at least I don't have to put on polar clothing when I go outside!
We've had a female Great spotted Woodpecker visiting all winter, not seen a male in the garden at all. Two more species to add today, one flying over as I replenished the feeders, the other hovering over the fields in the gale force winds (no prizes for guessing which bird was doing what ):

26 Lesser Redpoll
27 Common Kestrel


Err, make that three new species today, the group of Fieldfare and Starling that were thinking of settling down for the night just got a nasty fright:

28 Sparrowhawk

 

[Larry Lade]

#18
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)

*Richard, we have had a female Red-bellied Woodpecker coming to our feeders all winter but have not seen the male in the yard at all this winter.

 

[halftwo]

Colder here too today - though still above zero. Sleet & wind.

Kestrel = 40 today.

 

[Carol Baldock]

That's fascinating Richard and Larry, re the incidence that you see females as opposed to males. With our resident pair, I only recorded the female green woodpecker once last year , in our garden, and that was at the same time as the male. So today's appearance of the very unusual appearance of our female was a real surprise to me. We frequently see our male- he is in and out all of the time, lol.

Here is a picture which I took of the male some time ago, in much sunnier times :

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...=ec5c54d47269e4921d82797cb2f69011&oe=56FEFC56

 

[Jos Stratford]

That's fascinating Richard and Larry, re the incidence that you see females as opposed to males.

At my feeders, sex ratios are very biased amongst Great and Blue Tits - in both cases, nearly 80% of birds are males, and the vast majority of these are adult males as opposed to first-year birds (all the females and young birds migrate out).

More sedentary, the woodpeckers however are far more evenly split between males and females.

 

[timsg80]

20. Channel-billed Cuckoo
Another very nice garden tick, a pair were being quite extraordinarily noisy in the neighbour's garden!

 

[halftwo]

CBC. - great birds, Gregory.

A pair of Goosanders flew past this am. = 41.

 

[Larry Lade]

CBC. - great birds, Gregory.

A pair of Goosanders flew past this am. = 41.

Saw the CBC and immediately thought of Christmas Bird Count (USA mentality) and then I realized you were saying CBC, Channel-billed Cuckoo!

Happy New Year!

 

[Nutcracker]

Saw the CBC and immediately thought of Christmas Bird Count (USA mentality) and then I realized you were saying CBC, Channel-billed Cuckoo!

Happy New Year!

. . . . or the CBC :t:

 

[Nutcracker]

#19 Sparrowhawk (in garden, very briefly!)

 

[Larry Lade]

. . . . or the CBC :t:

Or if you are not into counting birds, perhaps you could take time to donate some blood at the CBC (Community Blood Center).

 

[Larry Lade]

Sorry (and me as a BF mod) taking this thread off topic, I apologize.

Back on topic: I have not seen a "new" bird in yard since the Northern Flicker!

 

[The Falcon]

14. Golden-crowned Kinglet
15. Tufted Titmouse
16. American Tree Sparrow
17. Purple Finch

 

[timsg80]

21. Laughing Kookaburra

 

[Richard Prior]

21. Laughing Kookaburra

Gregor, you'd better watch out for your sandwiches from now on then

 

[Nutcracker]

#20 Long-tailed Tit