KenM
Well-known member
Do you “bird” on your knees then Pete?🤣
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Garden / Yard List 2024 (5 Viewers)
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Do you “bird” on your knees then Pete?🤣
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
No silly, Pete lives in a bungalow Ken
I think I’m actually the highest Garden lister on here (1000m asl).
A Brambling this morning was the first for nearly a week, three Black Redstart simultaneously including the first songster, and another plumage Year Tick for the garden, a female House Sparrow, exciting times……
KenM
Well-known member
No silly, Pete lives in a bungalow Ken
I think I’m actually the highest Garden lister on here (1000m asl).
A Brambling this morning was the first for nearly a week, three Black Redstart simultaneously including the first songster, and another plumage Year Tick for the garden, a female House Sparrow, exciting times……
I’m about 800m short of that Richard!
Envy you the Sparrow, more than two years since my last.😩 However, my 19th Red Kite over this am and I’ve lost count of the Buzbys and Sprawks.
More seemingly constantly vocal Chiffies this year than ever before, hoping it’s an omen for the rest of the coming🤞Wobblers!
Not getting any decent shots of the Bops this year apart from Kestrel, cursed cloud cover seems to have prevailed most days.
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Frank van Drogen
Not so important
Seriously? House Sparrows are by far the most frequent and consistent birds we see here in Zurich. Generally, there's a flock of 6-10 hanging out in one of the bushes and visiting different feeders in the surrounding gardens. There are additional flocks if I walk up or down the street.
I keep scanning the flocks, you never know when an Italian Sparrow makes it over the Alps -- it must happen occasionally, and it seems very easy to miss.....
Even that is about 40 m higher than me ... and I am 300 km from the coast
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
I'm about 994 m short of Richards level...
and about 70 m from sea coast line.
At 16.3. three days earlier than last year:
#22. Wood Pigeon - Today it got two "partners"
Also today one garden lifer (tracks I had seen):
Very hansom and big Red Fox - only 3rd mammal species for this year
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
I’m not sure that Ken has a head for heights, I suspect he’s ‘gone a bit Imperial’ whereas the rest of us are metric Wikipedia states altitude of Woodford Green is c200 ft not 200m) 🤔
dantheman
Bah humbug
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Haha, mint humbugs, the dentists' best friend! I suppose Ken is Birdforum royalty then?
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
It can happen Frank, see the link attached to see how my obsessive checking of the sparrows at our previous place struck gold (type Moineau cisalpin in the box above the 'Toutes les espèces' box):
KenM
Well-known member
Must have altitude sickness…200’ it is!🤣
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Well, I just hope all you lowlanders have got your wellies ready for when the polar ice caps melt away
I am hoping it stops at 150 metres
Frank van Drogen
Not so important
That's awesome!!
Where was that exactly, still in Haute-Savoi (but lower) I assume?
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Saint Sixt (more precisely the former ski station at Orange), above La Roche sur Foron at 1100m, it was quite a celebrity and several birders came to twitch it. It lived to be a good age too. My theory was that it had got trapped in an Italian lorry and flew off when it arrived nearby (there's a transport company in La Roche that does International freight work). My other claim to fame whilst there was finding a Great Snipe one March morning in the fields above the house (so it didn't quite get on the garden list). Only one person (Mike (Bittern on Birdforum)) was quick enough to come and twitch it before the snow set in.
Bismarck Honeyeater
Barely known member
I’m at 10m, but I’m also on the first floor. So ground level here is about 6m. The river is lower still, at about 0m.
pete wragg
Well-known member
90 - Avocet, 2 on Kilnsea Wetlands, they've been back a couple of weeks, but first ones I've seen from garden.
birdmeister
Well-known member
Despite being in what's considered "lower" Sonoran Desert, I'm still at least 600m (2,000ft) above sea level. Compared with much of Arizona, that's low.
One addition to the year list gave excellent scope views as it surveyed a field for its next victim. Gotta love shrikes...
41. Loggerhead Shrike
The camera is still a work in progress. I was happy to at least get something of the speedy Violet-green Swallows migrating past. A Lesser Goldfinch stuck around longer, as did the shrike (but that photo is digiscoped from my phone).
One addition to the year list gave excellent scope views as it surveyed a field for its next victim. Gotta love shrikes...
41. Loggerhead Shrike
The camera is still a work in progress. I was happy to at least get something of the speedy Violet-green Swallows migrating past. A Lesser Goldfinch stuck around longer, as did the shrike (but that photo is digiscoped from my phone).
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KenM
Well-known member
On a leaden grey, sat sitting in tut chair, when I heard a rare sound!
Not quite believing my ears, as I deftly reached for the camera, just as it “periscoped” its head above the pyrracanthia…eyeballing me, alas! only to fly off before I could get my eye to the viewfinder…calling “cheap-cheap” as it went. No.61 female House Sparrow! circa 2+ years since my last.😮😊
Not quite believing my ears, as I deftly reached for the camera, just as it “periscoped” its head above the pyrracanthia…eyeballing me, alas! only to fly off before I could get my eye to the viewfinder…calling “cheap-cheap” as it went. No.61 female House Sparrow! circa 2+ years since my last.😮😊
