Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread (2 Viewers)

[Swindon Addick]

Finally got a free afternoon with decent weather to walk to Coate Water.
25 Feb
27 Greylag
28 Gadwall
29 Stock Dove
30 Marsh Tit
31 Nuthatch
32 Great Crested Grebe
33 Cormorant

 

[Xenospiza]

Kingfisher's new for the world list, according to the spreadsheet.

I have not been keeping the checklist up to date, sorry! No additions over the last two weeks. Grey Wagtail still evading me!

 

[gerald762]

The strong wind has eased a bit, so I was pleased to see a Short toed eagle over my house yesterday.

 

[Xenospiza]

Common Snipe and (finally!) Grey Wagtail today.

 

[Richard Prior]

Just two more for me recently, Common Treecreeper and Sông Thrush ( heard only so far).

 

[Xenospiza]

Joint BF Green List 2022

World ,Species,Date,Country,Observer Joint Green List - World 1,1 Herring Gull,1st Jan,UK,DTM 2,2 Jackdaw 3,3 Carrion Crow 4,4 Starling 5,5 Blue Tit 6,6 White/Pied Wagtail 7,7 Blackbird 8,8 Chaffinch 9,9 Magpie 10,10 Robin 11,11 Little Egret 12,12 Great Crested Grebe 13,13 Black-headed Gull 14,...

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I had to search quite a way back.

 

[Richard Prior]

I had to search quite a way back.

Well done X, I tried to transfer the spreadsheet further forward in the thread yesterday but thanks to my superb computer skills I failed miserably

 

[dantheman]

Well done X, I tried to transfer the spreadsheet further forward in the thread yesterday but thanks to my superb computer skills I failed miserably

Ummm ...

I thought it was quite simply always there on page #1 of this thread - in post #7 to be exact, so no real need to bring it forward? - Just remember it's always near the beginning of the thread- hit the first page (1 near the top left of this page next to prev) and drop down a few posts??



(Of course I've done little birding or updating myself of late unfortunately)

 

[Richard Prior]

You’re quite right Dan, I was just being lazy!
A Crag Martin flying around the church tower when I walked to the village this morning May be a new one for the World List, will check later…

 

[Xenospiza]

While waiting for Cranes, added Wood Lark to my yearlist. A nice flock of 10!

 

[Xenospiza]

Woodcock calling during an evening bike ride. I had of course just left a good viewpoint!

 

[Xenospiza]

After a failed (and honestly not very thorough) attempt yesterday I saw Tree Sparrow and Curlew at the hotspot in my municipality (just under 10 km from my home). They both can be expected on my local patch, but it's not a safe bet. Tree Sparrow has really plummeted as ten years ago they were a easy...
Also heard my first Chiffchaff.

(Still failing curiously is Common Raven, despite cycling through some prime habitat multiple times).

 

[Xenospiza]

Lesser Black-backed Gull from the black to the green list.

 

[Torchepot]

Well they didn’t shoot them all! - haven’t seen woodcock in our valley this year so far and after my confrontation with the men hunting them on Jan 1st - I feared the worst. A nice surprise this afternoon therefore when I flushed not one but two from the swampiest bit of our land.

 

[Xenospiza]

(Still failing curiously is Common Raven, despite cycling through some prime habitat multiple times).

Common Raven over the local patch today.
I added a very early Little Ringed Plover in the evening (6 days earlier than my local record).

 

[Xenospiza]

Two male Garganeys livened up my evening's birding.

 

[Richard Prior]

Two male Garganeys livened up my evening's birding.

Ooh, very nice! I reckon that if I had a pond here I would have had Garganey this week too, judging by the amazing numbers being seen, 62 on one small lake about 30 kms away yesterday !

 

[Xenospiza]

Ooh, very nice! I reckon that if I had a pond here I would have had Garganey this week too, judging by the amazing numbers being seen, 62 on one small lake about 30 kms away yesterday !

Some nice numbers past the Dutch coast today as well, so I left home with high hopes: success at two out of three regular spring locations.

 

[Torchepot]

Kingfisher’s back from it’s winter hols, collared dove is rashly nesting in our neighbour’s conifer and first chiffchaff of the year in our garden.

 

[Xenospiza]

A strong and cold easterly wind held back the migrants, but I took advantage of the wind to go to a nature reserve on the river Rhine 35 km due west.
Not a bad decision with Redshank, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, Northern Pintail, White-tailed Eagle (on its nest that is such a well kept secret that everyone stepping into the hide asked about it) and Spoonbill.
After an hour of rain (a good reason to stay in the hide) the wind shifted south and died down as predicted – which was good as heading back against the wind would not have been nice... On the way back I found a Common Sandpiper. Three birds for the world list!