Garden / Yard List 2021 (6 Viewers)

[kuzeycem]

A thunderstorm yesterday afternoon and throughout the night didn't result in the huge fall I was expecting but it did result in a:

9 May
97. Thrush Nightingale

 

[halftwo]

At last, with dozens of them around today, the first

70: Swifts

flew past the house.

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Don’t often hear these;

40. Garden Warbler

 

[KenM]

Don’t often hear these;

40. Garden Warbler

Heard my first one yesterday Rich...although not in the garden. 👍

 

[birdmeister]

One surprising addition whilst setting the dinner table last evening. I looked out just in time to see a

89. Peregrine Falcon

cruising north through a steady headwind. Peregrines are uncommon spring migrants. My frequent hawk watching efforts have produced one other between this spring and last!

 

[Warixenjalka]

Couple additions from home:

#41. Whimbrel
#42. Song Thrush
#43. Barnacle
#44. Common Redstart

 

[Richard Prior]

Couple additions from home:

#41. Whimbrel
#42. Song Thrush
#43. Barnacle
#44. Common Redstart

Sorry Wari, you’ll have to delete no.43 as crustaceans don’t count
Still no sign of Common Redstart here which is worrying - a lot of old trees have been felled here this spring making it less attractive for the species
First juvenile Starlings pestering their parents behind the house today, the earliest I’ve seen them here.

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Heard my first one yesterday Rich...although not in the garden. 👍

Got lucky Ken. Just back with the dog from our pre work walk and I could hear it singing away.

Rich

 

[MikeInPA]

A new one in the yard for me after dipping on a nearby Mourning Warbler and Clay-colored Sparrow.

Yellow Warbler, I did manage to photograph it too.

 

[birdmeister]

A new one in the yard for me after dipping on a nearby Mourning Warbler and Clay-colored Sparrow.

Yellow Warbler, I did manage to photograph it too.

Crippling Indigo Bunting portrait, Mike!

 

[MikeInPA]

I love it how the American contingent is adopting the British Twitching vocabulary.

“Crippling“, Mike Epler ”dipped” initially on the Clay-colored Sparrow. You’ll all be “Gripped Off” next. I’ll have to dig out Bill Oddie’s Little Black Birdbook for more examples of twitcher speak.

 

[Warixenjalka]

Sorry Wari, you’ll have to delete no.43 as crustaceans don’t count
Still no sign of Common Redstart here which is worrying - a lot of old trees have been felled here this spring making it less attractive for the species
First juvenile Starlings pestering their parents behind the house today, the earliest I’ve seen them here.

I have to google Barnacle, cos I didn't know what it is (except Goose). 😬 Now I know. In Finland those are called merirokko (= sea pox).

Today I watched young (2nd cy?) male Sparrow Hawk eating female House Sparrow on neighbors fence. I'm not sure can the male Sparrows feed nestlings or are they doomed (if they are exist)?

Also in garden today:

#45. Pied Flycatcher

 

[Richard Prior]

I have to google Barnacle, cos I didn't know what it is (except Goose). 😬 Now I know. In Finland those are called merirokko (= sea pox).

Today I watched young (2nd cy?) male Sparrow Hawk eating female House Sparrow on neighbors fence. I'm not sure can the male Sparrows feed nestlings or are they doomed (if they are exist)?

Also in garden today:

#45. Pied Flycatcher

Sea pox, sounds nasty! Male House Sparrows are good parents and feed the young, but parenting hungry youngsters on your own is a big job to manage ( I speak from personal experience ).

 

[KenM]

It was always the next to fall (barring something less regular), albeit twas a bit miffed at having the camera zoom at the wrong setting!! Got them just before they cleared the roof and after the rains! No.78.

 

[Richard Prior]

Good enough for an ID though Ken, definite Caspian Terns, well done
Still waiting for some warm airflow to send the last migrants through, fresh snow on the ground just 200m higher up from us this morning so things are a bit delayed........

 

[KenM]

Good enough for an ID though Ken, definite Caspian Terns, well done
Still waiting for some warm airflow to send the last migrants through, fresh snow on the ground just 200m higher up from us this morning so things are a bit delayed........

The only Caspian I’ve seen in the UK Richard, was at Breydon Water a long, long...time ago!
However, there was me lurking behind Holborn tube station on Tuesday pm, then just a nanosecond long-winged blur out of the trees and back again, in an extremely “tight ellipse”.
Had to wait half an hour before getting a load of out of focus frames...it was a real bugger!
Then finally always worth the wait, my first Spring bird for a very long time...

 

[birdmeister]

Heard a

90. Rose-breasted Grosbeak

singing this morning, maybe the 3rd or 4th yard record and 1st or 2nd in spring. Never saw it, but I drove to the bottom of the neighborhood to get an audio recording. Hopefully this will confirm it, as it did sound a little off from the typical RB Grosbeak song.

The White-crowned Sparrow is still hanging around, much to my delight. I brought out the scope for some 60X cell phone pics!