Just been watching a
Carrion Crow
Coal Tit
Dunnock
Carrion Crow
Coal Tit
Dunnock
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Garden / Yard List 2024 (4 Viewers)
- Thread starter halftwo
- Start date
I've never had any of those in the garden.
Raging snowstorm now, a White-tailed Eagle sitting huddled on a tree top viewable from my window. Sparrowhawk attack at the Yellowhammer flock.
Total creeping up in the last days, very expected species:
13. Hooded Crow
14. Nuthatch
15. Bullfinch
Total creeping up in the last days, very expected species:
13. Hooded Crow
14. Nuthatch
15. Bullfinch
Bismarck Honeyeater
Barely known member
#45 Jay today. That’s it. I don’t want to talk about the 3 possible Waxwings that flew too high, too far away, to quiet and too silhouetted to be sure, but they did look subtly different to Starlings. 😿
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
I know how you feel BH, I found two White-winged Snowfinch on Wednesday which would've been visible from home if a certain tree wasn't in the way (Jos advised me to take a chainsaw to it a few years back when another potential garden tick (Stonechat) was on the dung heap the other side of it
My wife was sleeping after her night shift so I briefly considered asking her to go to the spot and flush them while I watched from the garden with the telescope - but discretion was the better part of valour and all that....).Attachments
dantheman
Bah humbug
I think there's just a glitch in the local chiffchaff matrix then! (Or it's me). Only 1 Firecrest and not many Blackcap either. Admittedly I haven't been to any major preferred sites (one sewage works only, Bissoe, but they were working on it and inoperable), but been around College and Argal reservoirs a few times, Carrick Roads yesterday, would have expected to have encountered at least a few by now!
(And I guess we can expect the torrential rain to return soon ... ;-) )
Maybe its the cold weather further north
plenty firecrest here and a fair few blackcap, including a couple in the garden. Hoping the village turtle dove ends up in the garden soon tooSteve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
January 12th
46. Mute Swan - three from the brickpit a km away flew over
One of them, an adult, obviously had something wrong with its neck as the central third was evenly curved upwards - or backwards if it had been standing.
A Waxwing outside a friend's house five minutes away, the first in town since I had the fly-over on DEcember 30th. Odd as there have been loads in Leicester.
46. Mute Swan - three from the brickpit a km away flew over
One of them, an adult, obviously had something wrong with its neck as the central third was evenly curved upwards - or backwards if it had been standing.
A Waxwing outside a friend's house five minutes away, the first in town since I had the fly-over on DEcember 30th. Odd as there have been loads in Leicester.
Bismarck Honeyeater
Barely known member
I ‘made’ my wife go across the road to flush Teal, some years ago, never saw them. But now o know where they roost I see them all the time. 🤷🏻♂️I know how you feel BH, I found two White-winged Snowfinch on Wednesday which would've been visible from home if a certain tree wasn't in the way (Jos advised me to take a chainsaw to it a few years back when another potential garden tick (Stonechat) was on the dung heap the other side of it
See, you'd be two up now if you had listened to my advice
KenM
Well-known member
Welcome to the “roaring forties”H!
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
I’m nearly there!
39 Starling
Oddly, just one, feeding with a few Fieldfare and Mistle Thrush on a south facing (thus, free of snow) slope this morning.
Snowstorm over, crisp minus 10 C and blue skies instead
Fresh Wolf tracks this morning, a fairly large solitary individual. Birdwise, Yellowhammer flock around 70 today, up a little in recent days, plus a few additions for the year - female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, a fly-over Mute Swan (slightly unusual for mid-winter) and a mixed flock including Treecreeper, Long-tailed Tits and Goldcrests.
16. Mute Swan
17. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
18. Treecreeper
19. Long-tailed Tit
20. Goldcrest
Mammal year list:
I. Roe Deer
II. Wild Boar
III. Red Fox
IV. Wolf
V. Brown Hare
VI. Bank Vole
VII. Yellow-necked Mouse
KenM
Well-known member
Still need that, as I do Britain’s commonest bird Wren 😩 kinda incongruous when I’ve had Goldcrest and TWO Firecrest already.😮
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
January 13th
47. Mistle Thrush - three perched atop the biggest tree I can see
I was only on 33 this date last year. maybe I need to get out and about more rather than sitting in the garden so much.
47. Mistle Thrush - three perched atop the biggest tree I can see
I was only on 33 this date last year. maybe I need to get out and about more rather than sitting in the garden so much.
Farnboro John
Well-known member
Speaking of sitting about, I was working on photos on my laptop when some ugly croaking outside alerted me to
31. Egyptian Goose
Two flying West over the back garden.
John
31. Egyptian Goose
Two flying West over the back garden.
John
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Too easy to tear myself away from a very one-sided Clermont v Llanelli rugby match on TV so I did some dirty long distance ‘from the garden’ scoping, two more species quickly added, one in and the second flying over a chicken run on one of the farms:
40 House Sparrow
41 Magpie
So that’s equalled my best ever January total with 18 days to go!
Edit: a group of c25 Alpine Chough way up on the mountains just now were apparently the first from the garden this year, I see them almost daily in nearby Thones so had forgotten I needed them for this list!
42 Alpine Chough
40 House Sparrow
41 Magpie
So that’s equalled my best ever January total with 18 days to go!
Edit: a group of c25 Alpine Chough way up on the mountains just now were apparently the first from the garden this year, I see them almost daily in nearby Thones so had forgotten I needed them for this list!
42 Alpine Chough
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Bismarck Honeyeater
Barely known member
A wander around this morning was fairly quiet, until I was almost at the front door and a flock of c.60 #46 Siskin flew overhead and seemed to land across the road. Certainly the biggest flock I’ve had here.
Just after lunch I looked out of the window, just in time to see #47 Pied Wagtail on a roof across the road, before it flew off.
Hoping that the cold spell up north next week will move some stuff around down here. Had a couple of Water Rail just along the river, it wouldn’t take much for one of them to pop into our bit of river.
Just after lunch I looked out of the window, just in time to see #47 Pied Wagtail on a roof across the road, before it flew off.
Hoping that the cold spell up north next week will move some stuff around down here. Had a couple of Water Rail just along the river, it wouldn’t take much for one of them to pop into our bit of river.
