Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread (1 Viewer)

[Xenospiza]

More searching in vain for Red-footed Falcon. I did not want to miss all the action, so I twitched the closest one on Saturday (by car).
60 km away on Thursday (the closest staging birds), 40 km away on Friday (migrating), 20 km away on Saturday (migrating): you'd think I would have deserved one!
However, I had added Ringed and Golden Plover in the morning, which are both very much hit-or-miss on my patch.

 

[Richard Prior]

More searching in vain for Red-footed Falcon. I did not want to miss all the action, so I twitched the closest one on Saturday (by car).
60 km away on Thursday (the closest staging birds), 40 km away on Friday (migrating), 20 km away on Saturday (migrating): you'd think I would have deserved one!
However, I had added Ringed and Golden Plover in the morning, which are both very much hit-or-miss on my patch.

Nice, any sign that the falcons are progressing westwards or just continuing south/south east?

 

[Xenospiza]

Nice, any sign that the falcons are progressing westwards or just continuing south/south east?

They certainly pushed west last week, as there are plenty of Red-footed Falcons in the Netherlands. I wonder what the change in weather will mean for further movements.

 

[Xenospiza]

To remind me that life is suffering, a birder saw two Red-footed Falcons over my local patch today.
I then found back the Purple Heron (now present for six weeks, but it remains mostly invisible) so he could add that to his yearlist too, just like two other grateful locals who told me that the Bee-eaters had actually bred successfully.

 

[Xenospiza]

Yesterday, I saw two Hobbies at the location where the Red-footed Falcons had been reported. A cynic would have his doubts about the RFF report.

Today, I found a Ringed Teal (Cat E) on my local patch. I decided I should really go and see the third twitchable Red-necked Phalarope within cycling distance this year. A nice bonus (but no year tick) were five White-tailed Eagles, one of which was even close. I then visited a good wader location nearby, where I finally managed Dunlin. Very warm, but at least there was hardly any wind.

 

[Xenospiza]

I tried for a Dipper in Gelsenkirchen after work, but dipped. I did see its favourite rocks...
The day was saved by a shape that I knew was the Barn Owl that had been eluding me for a year on my local patch. Hopefully I will improve my views.

 

[Xenospiza]

After another dipper-dip last weekend, I added Merlin today on the Day of German Unity / 450th anniversary of the Relief of Leiden.

 

[Xenospiza]

A nice adult male Hen Harrier over my local patch was a rather late addition to my year list.

 

[Xenospiza]

A Jack Snipe was a nice reward for checking some sites close to home once the rain had stopped. Flight views only, despite getting the snipe-spotting technology out...