Bismarck Honeyeater
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This afternoon caught up with a distant #53 Little Grebe, gripped by my neighbour two weeks ago, who saw one minutes before I bumped into him.
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Garden / Yard List 2023 (1 Viewer)
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gerald762
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Coal tits feed on my feeders on the veranda!
Just in case you had doubts about the Black woodpecker, photo attached
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KenM
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Not that I’m counting BH!…..I make it 52? 😮
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Garden List Constable Prior here: 53 is correct because BH gave Blackcap the No 51 when it should’ve been No 52 (were you a Birding Prof of Mathematics BH?).
KenM
Well-known member
Clearly I wasn’t Richard….well spotted!
Goes hand in hand with your day job!….How you made your pile….all now revealed. 🤩
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Bismarck Honeyeater
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Tax consultant for cabinet ministers.
I somehow confused myself and miscounted! 😙
53 is correct.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Minus 3.5C here this morning, the 'mildest' dawn temperature for a fortnight! The er, balmy conditions encouraged one of our nearby residents to chirp up:
33 Spotted Nutcracker
33 Spotted Nutcracker
Back from AWOL, Black Woodpecker happily demolishing a trunk this morning.
25. Black Woodpecker
25. Black Woodpecker
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
#15. Herring Gull
#16. Tree Sparrow
#16. Tree Sparrow
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Ooh, that's two species I'll probably never see here Wari! The Nutcracker transformed from a 'heard only' to a sight record, two of them stopped at the top of nearby trees before going on down towards the river, odd behaviour for January as they usually stay higher up in the thick forest. On checking it's only the second time I've logged the species from the garden in January in 7 years here. Very murky (see photos!) but temperatures finally above freezing. Up to our necks in Brambling today and as last winter, a single Crested Tit visiting.
Late afternoon edit: my curiosity got the better of me just now when I spied an unusually large flock of crows around the farm visible down in the valley. Wondering what they were up to I got the 'scope out to discover it was a group of c60 Alpine Chough, better still, on the roof of one of the buildings was a Magpie. It's gone corvid crazy here today
34 Alpine Chough
35 Magpie
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Rarer than Black Woodpecker, even more so in winter, four Feral Pigeons flew over this afternoon.
26. Feral Pigeon
26. Feral Pigeon
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
January 29th
41. Grey Wagtail - one over low with a bit of song
42. Buzzard - one over to the south
Just one behind my January 2022 total now.
24 species from the garden today but only ten counted for the RSPB garden birdwatch, with two Blackcaps the highlight. More interesting were several small groups of Herring Gulls all going high north, 23 in total over 4.25 hours.
41. Grey Wagtail - one over low with a bit of song
42. Buzzard - one over to the south
Just one behind my January 2022 total now.
24 species from the garden today but only ten counted for the RSPB garden birdwatch, with two Blackcaps the highlight. More interesting were several small groups of Herring Gulls all going high north, 23 in total over 4.25 hours.
halftwo
Wird Batcher
I'm surrounded by ditches here, and there's one small pond within view of the garden, but until today I've never seen any Moorhens within sight of the garden. But today one was out at the side of the pond, as I walked.
I hoped it would still be out when I got back. It was.
48: Moorhen
I hoped it would still be out when I got back. It was.
48: Moorhen
Bismarck Honeyeater
Barely known member
I’ve double-checked my count 😉 and after yesterdays #54 Greylag Goose and todays (finally!) #55 Herring Gull I’m just over my average January figure. Fairly pleased as I missed the first 16 days. Still a couple of likely possibilities but not a lot of January left.
Highlight of the day I suppose was a Redwing feeding in leaf litter. Common as a flyover and frequent in the trees, but I don’t recal one ever on the deck before.
Marsh Tit on the feeders quite sporadically/regularly, if that makes sense.
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Highlight of the day I suppose was a Redwing feeding in leaf litter. Common as a flyover and frequent in the trees, but I don’t recal one ever on the deck before.
Marsh Tit on the feeders quite sporadically/regularly, if that makes sense.
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KenM
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A double jaw drop at both ends of day!
first one not a sp tick but a “diurnal” one at that (as seen from the house).
Circa 8.20 am, espied 2 brown fast “thing-ies” arrowing North creasing the tree tops as they went (clearly won’t see those again #### ##!….but they returned on the same trajectory South! before disappearing behind the trees,
“A-a-a-g-h” I cried!
Then to my total dismay! they returned North again, once more on the same “canopy creasing flight path now enabling me to ID them….Teal!!!
Have only ever seen them (most years none) flying as silhouettes at dusk/sunset…am still in awe of the sighting.😮
Then tonight at 5.20 pm only my third ever sighting in forty years, once again above the dip in the trees, the unmistakeable albeit in silhouette, flickering wingbeats with “feet out the back and long neck…Great Crested Grebe! no.50. 😮🍷
first one not a sp tick but a “diurnal” one at that (as seen from the house).
Circa 8.20 am, espied 2 brown fast “thing-ies” arrowing North creasing the tree tops as they went (clearly won’t see those again #### ##!….but they returned on the same trajectory South! before disappearing behind the trees,
“A-a-a-g-h” I cried!
Then to my total dismay! they returned North again, once more on the same “canopy creasing flight path now enabling me to ID them….Teal!!!
Have only ever seen them (most years none) flying as silhouettes at dusk/sunset…am still in awe of the sighting.😮
Then tonight at 5.20 pm only my third ever sighting in forty years, once again above the dip in the trees, the unmistakeable albeit in silhouette, flickering wingbeats with “feet out the back and long neck…Great Crested Grebe! no.50. 😮🍷
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Rising sea levels starting to affect your garden Ken?
I'm just below the 36sp average January total but maybe tomorrow a Wren or Fieldfare will pop up........................
I'm just below the 36sp average January total but maybe tomorrow a Wren or Fieldfare will pop up........................
No birds of note, but a Lynx following the path from my cabin through the forest on two subsequent nights. I think it is lingering as I have a grain feeder next to my cabin that is proving very popular with Roe Deer
KenM
Well-known member
Am currently 200’ above sea level Richard, so hopefully…won’t be floating out just yet.😮
I wish you luck tomorrow for Wren, I’ve only had 2 occurrences this month, as compared to 4 Goldcrest.
I too will be pulling out all stops tomorrow, if only to beat my best ever January total (50).👍
birdmeister
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One excellent addition at the end of January, with a flock of 13
35. Red Crossbill
visible from my yard with a scope. This flock has been continuing for weeks, maybe months, in my general area. Red Crossbills are exceptional at this altitude and habitat (2000ft/600m), with numbers not seen in this area before and unrecorded since 2017. My picture is really awful, but at least you can make out the bright red males and greenish females. And having crossbills and saguaro cactus in the same frame is neat!
35. Red Crossbill
visible from my yard with a scope. This flock has been continuing for weeks, maybe months, in my general area. Red Crossbills are exceptional at this altitude and habitat (2000ft/600m), with numbers not seen in this area before and unrecorded since 2017. My picture is really awful, but at least you can make out the bright red males and greenish females. And having crossbills and saguaro cactus in the same frame is neat!
