Garden / Yard List 2024 (2 Viewers)

[KenM]

Circa 30 Fieldfare very low just over canopy this am SSW, probably my largest flock “ever” from the house.
Too quick for me to image, however an image taken on Tuesday from Chingford Plain c1mile away, might be of interest?
The now seemingly daily “displaying” Sprawk over the house…several times this am, with c25 Redwing briefly alighting in my “magic tree” before suddenly taking flight, just managing to image one.😊
Not forgetting, the returning to roost female Brambling, for its 9th consecutive visit this evening.😮 Fieldfare apart, the cold snap did not live up to the hoped for Bonanza…time will tell.

 

[Farnboro John]

Pied Wagtail chiswicking its way past the window this afternoon makes 36 for the list.

36. Pied Wagtail

Also repeat performance from the Chiffchaff.

John

 

[Steve Lister]

The first two weeks were excellent, the last week poor until.......
January 21st
49. Red Kite - one cruising around just above rooftop height.

 

[Frank van Drogen]

Snow on the ground, and it freezing 10 degrees yesterday enticed some (XVII) Treesparrows to the feeders. I hear them quite often around the forest edge, but this was a first for the garden.

 

[KenM]

Snow on the ground, and it freezing 10 degrees yesterday enticed some (XVII) Treesparrows to the feeders. I hear them quite often around the forest edge, but this was a first for the garden.

Yet to see a Tree Sparrow locally Frank 😩
However no.50 (a pair) found my feeders at last!

 

[Richard Prior]

Snow on the ground, and it freezing 10 degrees yesterday enticed some (XVII) Treesparrows to the feeders. I hear them quite often around the forest edge, but this was a first for the garden.

We had the same temperatures as you Frank, but much milder today and joining in with the calling Great and Coal Tit just now was a somewhat overdue

43 Willow Tit

not a single visit to the feeders by this species all winter so at least I now know they’re still around

 

[Mark Lew1s]

Update from Aberdeen's Glittering West End...

26 - Starling - an ommission from the other day
27 - Stock dove - two over the city centre this morning. One I thought might be hard, but actually these are the second I've had (after one went over with woodpigeons when I was 10 yards down the road...)

 

[KenM]

Update from Aberdeen's Glittering West End...

26 - Starling - an ommission from the other day

I still need that! 😩

 

[halftwo]

Two goodies in five minutes this pm:

48 : Mute Swan (7 in 3 lots).

49 : Red Kite - right overhead.

 

[RyanI]

A couple more over the stormy weekend:

36) LBBG
37) Tawny owl

Thought the storm may have blown some things in but other than an increase in blackcaps (3) and firecrest (2) nothing much else!

 

[Warixenjalka]

Entrance road to my house/land last night. Needless to say, no way to get my car through that, so it's now parked off yonder and I have to walk in. When's spring?


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Couple hours of shoveling and the problem is solved 😁

 

[Jos Stratford]

Couple hours of shoveling and the problem is solved 😁

One metre deep in places, 700 metre stretch still blocked ... members from Finland hereby cordially invited to visit (along with shovel) 🙂

 

[Warixenjalka]

I had an summer holiday at last week. I spend it on island in Southern seas - at least from my point of view.

Utö is Finland's southernmost island with a permanent population. We saw some really nice species from our lodge: Long-tailed Duck, Black Guillemot, Razorbill, Purple Sandpiper, Arctic Redpoll, Merlin and Rough-legged Buzzard among other things. Photo is from our window.

Sadly I can't count those birds for my garden list, but yesterday I manage to see one new species from my "office" window:

#18 Greenfinch - 3/2

 

[KenM]

Greenfinch is a must have species for me Wari……and I’m still waiting.😩

 

[Bismarck Honeyeater]

Working on the laptop this morning, with my bins by my side, just in case. So busy that I didn’t think to look out of the window, until I got up to cook Mrs. BH some brunch…Two chunky things sat on top of a Silver Birch, one flew off, but the other remained, it had a crest!

#52 Waxwing. They were about for 20 minutes and I managed a quick couple of photos through the kitchen window. Don’t know how long they may have been there before I spotted them.



Popped out after brunch but no sign of them. A couple of Redwings over momentarily got my pulse going. Hopefully more to come in this invasion year.

 

[Jos Stratford]

Working on the laptop this morning, with my bins by my side, just in case. So busy that I didn’t think to look out of the window, until I got up to cook Mrs. BH some brunch…Two chunky things sat on top of a Silver Birch, one flew off, but the other remained, it had a crest!

#52 Waxwing. They were about for 20 minutes and I managed a quick couple of photos through the kitchen window. Don’t know how long they may have been there before I spotted them.

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Popped out after brunch but no sign of them. A couple of Redwings over momentarily got my pulse going. Hopefully more to come in this invasion year.

Nice one, had a flock of 95 from my window a couple of days ago ... wrong window unfortunately, my Vilnius flat, not my Labanoras where I do my listing.

 

[Farnboro John]

Two new birds for the garden this year so far this morning:

37. Goldfinch
38. Lesser Redpoll

Goldfinches often plunder the Buddleia seeds but Redpolls usually come no closer than the birch outside the garden so a good record in our tiny footprint.

John

 

[KenM]

Already on my grdn.list (seen by my wife only grrr!..c10 yrs ago) and being one I have coveted ever since until this am no.51 Waxwing!..Flying over the house, unfortunately too quick for a shot.😩

 

[Richard Prior]

A Waxwing flyover, not a very likely scenario here I fear, still just the one group of 4 in France, way up towards the Belgian border and they haven’t moved for a fortnight. There’s a lot of berry bushes between Lille and Annecy
Still, 3 Black Grouse at dusk to cheer me up!

 

[dantheman]

Mabe Burnthouse

35. Linnet

January 24th:

36. Grey Heron

Was on the phone earlier when saw one fly low over out of the living room window being mobbed by Jackdaws. Bit bizarrely saw one nearby in a tussocky field above the res when walking back from Asda, don't see them in fields much in the UK usually. Reasonable chance same one.

Still a few Redwing out the back, Song Thrush prominent, lots of bird song and 2 Dunnocks chasing each other.