Garden / Yard List 2021 (1 Viewer)

[KenM]

Ooh I'm jealous! But I thought it was the cow that jumped over the moon?

.....well it’s certainly the right day for it...give or take an “o” 😄

 

[KenM]

Snap. Just having a soak in the bath and I can hear a Cuckoo.

42. Cuckoo

Sure it wasn’t the female “bubbling” Rich. 😂

 

[halftwo]

Joining the Cuckoo club today

71: CUCKOO!!!!

A year tick too.

 

[MikeInPA]

When I lived in Lincolnshire for several years we had a dyslexic Cuckoo. It went OOOO Cuck, OOOO Cuck. honestly!

 

[Richard Prior]

When I lived in Lincolnshire for several years we had a dyslexic Cuckoo. It went OOOO Cuck, OOOO Cuck. honestly!

Sounds more like it was a bit backward to me Mike.
2020 was a blank year for Cuckoo for me here and no sight or sound of one yet this year but I’m not bitter.........

 

[MikeInPA]

Finally a Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

 

[kevinsl06]

You’re only seven short of my 38 year garden list!!!😮😮😮👍

What seven do I need to find?

 

[kevinsl06]

That’s a BIG list Kevin ( but everything’s bigger in Texas, right?).

Right!

 

[birdmeister]

One surprise this morning when a

96. Carolina Chickadee

sounded off outside the kitchen window. I haven't seen or heard this normally common resident since last October.

 

[MikeInPA]

One surprise this morning when a

96. Carolina Chickadee

sounded off outside the kitchen window. I haven't seen or heard this normally common resident since last October.

They’ve been quite scarce here too this winter.

 

[MikeInPA]

Another this evening.

Swainsons Thrush.

 

[birdmeister]

One more in my push for 100, although it will probably slow down considerably until autumn again.

97. Scarlet Tanager (heard only)

 

[MikeInPA]

One more in my push for 100, although it will probably slow down considerably until autumn again.

97. Scarlet Tanager (heard only)

What a weird migration year we're having, I've normally got warbler's all over the yard until the end of the month but it seems like it's all over and very few numbers. Orioles and Tanagers all over the place though so it's not that bad.

 

[Richard Prior]

Still a few species to come here ( at least I hope so), the latest just announced its arrival from the top of a neighbour’s tree as I was taking advantage of an unexpected 3 hour pause in the showers to plant leeks in the veg plot:

77 Red-backed Shrike

Arrival dates of this summer visitor have ranged from 16 May to 4 June in the five springs we’ve been here. I should get to 80 in the next week or so ( if it warms up a bit🤞) with Griffon Vulture, Honey Buzzard and Short-toed Eagle due now.

 

[Richard Prior]

At last! Breeding less than 2kms away up around the local ski resort, and seen most years on migration stopovers in the fields between home and the village this species has for some time had the title of 'most expected' addition to the Garden/Yard Life List. I was in a bit of a quandary for a while as I had just the briefest naked eye sighting through the window, the Black Redstart female chasing it off the wire around our raspberries before I could grab bins or camera and despite searching around our field I couldn't refind it. You could say I was 95% sure of the id. but hesitating on whether to count it. Relief all round then when 20 minutes later I decided to 'scope the fence posts around the fields towards the village and found another one, a fine male this time:

78 Whinchat

 

[halftwo]

Yesterday evening a

WOODCOCK

flew right past the window.

 

[Richard Prior]

Time for another chat

Another night of pouring rain stopped at dawn, and emerging from the mist and cloud, my second ever

79 Northern Wheatear


Breeds just as close as Whinchat does, perhaps I've not been trying hard enough for these two!

 

[halftwo]

Today a

73: HOBBY

sliced through the Swifts half a mile west. Any day with a Hobby is a good day.

 

[KenM]

You could say I was 95% sure of the id. but hesitating on whether to count it.

78 Whinchat

Well I’m shocked to the core!...5% for me.😂

 

[Warixenjalka]

This weeks Kullaa's Garden ticks:

#23. Raven
#24. Siskin
#25. Pied Flycatcher
#26. Willow Warbler
#27. Chiffchaff
#28. Common Tern
#29. Blackcap
#30. Wryneck
#31. Spotted Flycatcher
#32. Barn Swallow
#33. Common Gull
#34. Great Spotted Woodpecker
#35. House Martin
#36. Jackdaw
#37. Lesser Whitethroat
#38. Dunnock