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[halftwo]

Ah, Benny Goodman’s Bugle Call Rag, that would be nice to hear through the bedroom window. I heard a singing Fieldfare myself at dawn this morning, though calling it a song is stretching it a bit, hard to believe it’s related to Song Thrush when you compare their efforts! The second migrating Red Kite of the week heading north at midday and displaying Sparrowhawk the other highlights here, 31 species for the garden day list.
Late winter snow forecast here for the next few days so the feeders replenished!

My first

RED KITE

of the year too, this am : 2 year ticks in two days!

 

[Paul Chapman]

Excellent stuff on here. I have been lured out of the garden in the last week & tantalisingly Kingfisher and Blackcap within sight of the garden but still marooned on 49 for the garden for the year.

36 species for the garden in March so far so still clocking up a few hours.

All the best

Paul

 

[Richard Prior]

Excellent stuff on here. I have been lured out of the garden in the last week & tantalisingly Kingfisher and Blackcap within sight of the garden but still marooned on 49 for the garden for the year.

36 species for the garden in March so far so still clocking up a few hours.

All the best

Paul

Looks as though I've just pipped you to the half century then this morning Paul, a good fall of snow overnight (10 to 15cms) and continuing on and off this morning so I cleared a few patches and put down some seed before making our porridge. At least 40 Yellowhammers feeding in the gloom and then up pops a smart

50 Rock Bunting

for once sitting still for a photo. A real March speciality for the garden, since 2017 the dates are 6 Feb, 19 March, 7 March, 7 March and now 14 March. Only once have I had two sightings in the Feb-April period, otherwise they are just one day wonders (usually one minute wonders in fact!). No sign of any Long-tailed Skuas so far................

 

[KenM]

Great image Dicky boy!👍

 

[KenM]

Can’t compete with YB or RB Richard....however would Titmouse constitute another tick?😮

 

[Paul Chapman]

Nice Rock Bunting! I think Blackcap will be my 50th as it was on the other side of the house this morning but still not from the garden.....

 

[halftwo]

3 Golden Plover just flew over!

 

[Richard Prior]

Can’t compete with YB or RB Richard....however would Titmouse constitute another tick?😮

Cute, is that a Wood Mouse, or Yellow-necked, or A N Other? Edit: Oops, I see you’re asking the same question Ken!
No resighting of Rocky the bunting, I didn’t see where it went as I was concentrating on the porridge. My long suffering wife puts up with my birding at the breakfast table but burning the porridge might be ‘a bridge too far’ !

 

[halftwo]

The inevitable spring

59 : Meadow Pipit

flew by, followed by a dozen more this am.

 

[Richard Prior]

The inevitable spring

59 : Meadow Pipit

flew by, followed by a dozen more this am.

Here that would be a mega in spring H, the Water Pipit is my inevitable spring pipit sp. Despite more snow overnight(there's now a good 40cms outside) a sunny morning encouraged another one of the March regulars (average first date is the 21st over our five years here) to arrive at breakfast time.

51 Serin

Another 'through the window while cooking the porridge' photo attached!

 

[Steve Lister]

The inevitable spring

59 : Meadow Pipit

flew by, followed by a dozen more this am.

They must be diverting around Lufbra as I am still waiting for the first spring ones here.

 

[KenM]

No Pips here either, always seem to struggle for those and as for Serin in the snow, my last were under Palm trees 2000 miles South.😮👍

7 MIPS high and NEast no.64!😄

 

[Farnboro John]

Spring is here.... male Chiffchaff singing outside the house this morning.

44. Chiffchaff

John

 

[KenM]

The “circle of life”.....Long Tails insulation from yesterday’s Sprawk kill....

 

[connorco]

Nothing new in awhile, but it did get a somewhat new yard bird. An intergrade Yellow-shafted x Red-shafted Flicker

 

[Richard Prior]

Frosty nights here so the snow is slow to melt which perhaps explains the non arrival of Black Redstart and Chiffchaff. Still, it hasn't deterred the first

52 Blackcap

a male singing early this morning. Arrival dates since 2017 are 16 March, 2 April, 17March, 18 March and now 21st.

 

[Steve Lister]

Finally got a few - nine to be exact - Meadow Pipits migrating over today. Not new for the year as I had a few CWM birds in the snow.
Was pleased with nine until I saw a count of 1900 over Belvide reservoir in three hours this morning.

Steve

 

[Richard Prior]

What does CWM mean Steve? Meadow Pipit a rarity here either in or over our valley though a few breed about 20kms away.
Another case of me being over cautious - I thought I briefly heard a Ring Ousel call yesterday and was probably right, as scanning the partly snow free fields just now produced two smart silver-winged males with at least 20 Mistle Thrushes and half a dozen Fieldfare. On her way back home from her night shift earlier my wife saw two Black Redstart around the farm which is visible from the house, so they’re nearly here!

53 Ring Ousel

 

[Steve Lister]

What does CWM mean Steve?

Cold weather movement - I expect you get a fair bit Richard.

 

[Richard Prior]

Ha, I wish, plenty of cold weather but not much movement is the norm here!