KenM
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Very familiar with that acronym John, and have also had assistance from my spouse in the ''heat of the moment''. :t:
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Garden/Yard List 2019 (1 Viewer)
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Very familiar with that acronym John, and have also had assistance from my spouse in the ''heat of the moment''. :t:
KenM
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After a week of ''grey dirge'' the sun shone this am...and so did the birds! With a garden and life tick under my belt from yesterday (Bank Vole), I found a young Chiffy sporting an eye-ring that wouldn't have looked out of place on a Nashville!....soon followed by a year tick juv.Lesser Whitethroat (no.72.) plus flyover Legret, Sprawk, Buzzard and a seemingly (got it a bit late) large Accip. :eek!:
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Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
June 23rd.
67. Lapwing
How I can go nearly six months without having one of these go over beats me.
Steve
67. Lapwing
How I can go nearly six months without having one of these go over beats me.
Steve
Jos Stratford
Beast from the East
112. Corncrake.
Two very noisy individuals calling all day and night for the last couple of days - strange to arrive on my land so late, presume they have been displaced by grass mowing nearby.
Two very noisy individuals calling all day and night for the last couple of days - strange to arrive on my land so late, presume they have been displaced by grass mowing nearby.
KenM
Well-known member
.....Try c20 years!...then two double digit groups.....two weeks apart!
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
#62. Lesser Whitethroat - heard only
birdmeister
Well-known member
One solid June addition came today in the form of two
75. Hairy Woodpecker
They are still barely annual from the yard, as we don't have mature woods in the immediate area.
My goal is still 100 species when it's all said and done! I have plenty of room for some more passerine migrants, especially warblers. I think I can also expect a few miscellaneous birds, too (Caspian Tern, Merlin, Cliff/Bank Swallow). The question is, will there be enough to total 25 or more?!
75. Hairy Woodpecker
They are still barely annual from the yard, as we don't have mature woods in the immediate area.
My goal is still 100 species when it's all said and done! I have plenty of room for some more passerine migrants, especially warblers. I think I can also expect a few miscellaneous birds, too (Caspian Tern, Merlin, Cliff/Bank Swallow). The question is, will there be enough to total 25 or more?!
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
73 Nutcracker
Heard calling across the valley this morning, unusual in June ( there are definitely no hazelnuts available on the bushes yet) but I’ll take it, especially as the singing Garden Warbler not far away refuses to come within earshot!
Heard calling across the valley this morning, unusual in June ( there are definitely no hazelnuts available on the bushes yet) but I’ll take it, especially as the singing Garden Warbler not far away refuses to come within earshot!
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Ooh, a Peanutcracker, pretty uncommon in your neck of the woods Ken?
KenM
Well-known member
birdmeister
Well-known member
EDIT: One more down and it's an "armchair tick"! An accounting error on Feb. 1st saw me add Common Raven as #26 after adding Northern Harrier as #26 on Jan. 28.
That puts me at
76. Hairy Woodpecker
jasperpatch
Amy, Brit in Quebec.
My nice list of additions marked peak season I think, it has got much quieter since then. Gives me time to daydream about a grand tour around the other gardens - there'd be a fair number of lifers for me, on both sides of the pond.
Anyhow, a few more visitors:
69. Scarlet Tanager - turned up and investigated the hummingbird feeder. I see them every year, and every time my jaw still drops at just how radiant they are.
70. Tennessee Warbler
71. Ruffed Grouse
72. Veery
73. Great Crested Flycatcher
Also found my first local Mourning Warbler a few weeks back, which takes my overall Green Patch list to 150. My garden list is on 106, so there are a fair few local birds that theoretically wouldn't have to wander far to be added on. Keeping hope alive!
Off on my hols next week, have a lovely summer everyone (or winter? not sure we've got any Southerners this year?).
Anyhow, a few more visitors:
69. Scarlet Tanager - turned up and investigated the hummingbird feeder. I see them every year, and every time my jaw still drops at just how radiant they are.
70. Tennessee Warbler
71. Ruffed Grouse
72. Veery
73. Great Crested Flycatcher
Also found my first local Mourning Warbler a few weeks back, which takes my overall Green Patch list to 150. My garden list is on 106, so there are a fair few local birds that theoretically wouldn't have to wander far to be added on. Keeping hope alive!
Off on my hols next week, have a lovely summer everyone (or winter? not sure we've got any Southerners this year?).
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Aha, six months gone and six to go and Amy, Ken and I are all on 73 for the year (though unlike you two my overall Garden List has yet to reach its century (three more needed for that milestone).
Pretty consistent scoring here, in 2017 I was on 72 at this stage (finished with 87), last year 75 (finished on 86) so I'm focused on topping 90 for the year and 100 for the Garden Life List. No Shrike piles à la Jos, but the raspberries I planted are beginning to look like a mini-migrant trap for the autumn (Grasshopper, Marsh and Icterine Warblers would be a nice way to reach the ton.......................
Pretty consistent scoring here, in 2017 I was on 72 at this stage (finished with 87), last year 75 (finished on 86) so I'm focused on topping 90 for the year and 100 for the Garden Life List. No Shrike piles à la Jos, but the raspberries I planted are beginning to look like a mini-migrant trap for the autumn (Grasshopper, Marsh and Icterine Warblers would be a nice way to reach the ton.......................
Jos Stratford
Beast from the East
Talking of which, one singing by my cabin today
Overdue, usual territory holding bird seemed absent earlier in the season.
113. Icterine Warbler
KenM
Well-known member
I’m sure Richard you’ll achieve 90 for the year soon (I suspect before me) and eclipse the three digit mark overall for the garden sooner than you think.
However for moi the annual bottom line listing is purely secondary, as the primary thrust is for “additional” new species.
Were it not for the requisite number crunching (more hours at the window than perhaps one might like)...most of the exciting garden lifers would probably never have been found!
FWIW, I believe I am also roughly at the same level at this time as last year.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Yellowhammers
I think they may have moved to France Ken, I've got several pairs in the vicinity, I've done a serious study of their song too, here they sing "Un petit peu du pain et pas Brie" instead of the UK birds' " A little bit of bread and no cheese".
Pushing back the boundaries of science n'est-ce pas? :t:
Like H, I'm waiting for the Hobbies to appear, won't be long now as I'm seeing plenty of House Martins, Barn Swallows and Swifts now.
I think they may have moved to France Ken, I've got several pairs in the vicinity, I've done a serious study of their song too, here they sing "Un petit peu du pain et pas Brie" instead of the UK birds' " A little bit of bread and no cheese".
Pushing back the boundaries of science n'est-ce pas? :t:
Like H, I'm waiting for the Hobbies to appear, won't be long now as I'm seeing plenty of House Martins, Barn Swallows and Swifts now.
