Welcome to the Garden List thread Kev, get ready for terrible puns and occasional outbursts of jealousy on here
Collard Dove
Feral Pigeon
Starling
House Sparrow
Magpie
Merlin
Black bird
Great tit
Wren
Robin
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Seeing Black kite overhead every day sometimes very low and sometimes very high .
Find that unbelievable! Probably the most abundant flyover species from my garden.Still no Feral Pigeon - they all turn out to be Stock Doves or something.
Learn the flight call, and you'll pick them up easily on autumn passage in September / October :t:28. Meadow pipit - a Morpeth garden lifer (species 66!), singing over hedgerows on the adjacent farmland (so another that I'm unlikely to see/hear again once it's a new housing estate...). I'm guessing this wouldn't be a lifer if I were a better birder, but my ability to pick out different songs is improving, so I get to add new species to the list that have probably been around for years!
Clear and calm this morning - ideal for sounds to reach my garden - & an unexpected turn up - a garden tick...
63 : Moorhen
shouting from the stream.
My 2017 Backyard List
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Lesser Goldfinch
House Finch
White-Crowned Sparrow
House Sparrow
Western Bluebird
Dark-Eyed Junco
Black Phoebe
American Robin
American Crow
California Scrub Jay
Northern Flicker
Cedar Waxwing
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Welcome to the Garden/Yard thread ATBF, what kind of habitat do you have around your place?
Hi,
Thanks!
We're in the middle of a large suburban area (Roseville, CA). Our particular neighborhood is older, so the trees and other growth are mature. Our city has a number of riparian greenbelts that follow creeks that cross the area, the nearest being about a half mile away. I believe these natural areas would be classified as valley oak woodlands.
We have a small backyard flanked by a pair of large sycamores. There are various low shrubs along the fence. The feeders are all hung in a fruitless plum tree in the middle of the yard. That tree provides nice cover for birds while also being ideal for hanging feeders.
Regards,
Alan
...it's nice to be able to imagine each other's gardens/yards/ country estate (Jos)
Snow overnight...
Snow at the 'country estate' today :t:
On and off flurries, but pleasant all the same. Ice beginning to thin and vanish ...and with it the return of Goldeneyes and Green Sandpipers to territory, Snipe and Goosander flying over, four Wigeon too settling on a flood pool in the meadow (4th record for my land, after one last week). Also a Woodlark singing.
61. Goosander
62. Common Snipe
63. Green Sandpiper