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  1. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Swapped my old mill in Suffolk for an old mill near Bath last night. Very similar birds, including Grey Wagtail but also Sand Martins which are quite a scarce visitor back home. Before we left home on Monday morning, there was a begging Tawny Owl calling around 09:00 in the nice grounds of the...
  2. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    The garden has jumped from Winter a week ago to Summer this week. Hard to imagine I will be adding many new additions over the next couple of months, though there are a few possibilities. Probably not worth making any great efforts at getting up early for the forseeable future. However, tonight...
  3. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Brown Booby may get split - an issue for British listers?

    There’s just one record claimed outside of the Pacific, it’s probably not one for us to have worry about.
  4. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    An early start today. After nearly 16 hours of rain I was hopeful something might have dropped in. Sadly it was super quiet, I didn’t even bother running the Merlin App, not that it would have picked up a distant #75 Cuckoo calling from across the road. A day later than last year. They usually...
  5. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    #74 Mistle Thrush was a long overdue yeartick yesterday. A single bird being unceremoniously chased out of the garden by a couple of Blackbirds. In a normal year I would have seen MT multiple times by now, they’ve even bred just across the road - but this is not a normal year, and this is my...
  6. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    A good start this morning, when the Cetti’s Warbler that has an extensive territory, decided to pop down to its border with my garden, and have a little sing. Just my 2nd record this year. A Swallow mobbing a high Sparrowhawk made me look up, and spot 2x #73 House Martins. A nice Sunbow seen...
  7. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I reckon that’s about right. Another limitation is probably down to hardware rather than software. It often doesn’t hear things that I can hear (never the other way around). I like to use it in the garden just in case I get to hear something but am not quick enough to fire off a shot with the...
  8. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Little to report from recent days - continuing records for Pheasant and Green Woodpecker, another Willow Warbler, Oystercatcher and Lapwing a few Swallows and a couple of Linnets were the standouts. Braved the cold and got out early this morning, and was rewarded with my first Spring record of...
  9. Bismarck Honeyeater

    restaurants where you can bird and eat at the same time

    Shieldaig Bar & Coastal Kitchen https://maps.app.goo.gl/U7JBVwfnCny6tJvz9?g_st=ic Was a decent meal iirc, White-tailed Eagle the highlight from the roof terrace. Fortunately I was facing the bay, difficult to give my full attention to Mrs. BH 😚
  10. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    #70 Swallow this morning. Three came whizzing past despite the cold and breeze. I’ve been seeing them locally for a little while, so no great surprise, and I shall see them daily till the end of September at least.
  11. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    A hoped for #69 Willow Warbler singing this morning. In the same tree as my first April record last year - but two days later. Given the scarcity in Spring, I’m tempted to think it’s the same bird.
  12. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Birdforum App

    I view mostly on my phone and tablet, very rarely on my laptop, my view is perfectly fine as is, so I probably won’t go for the wrAPPer version. Thanks for explaining it.
  13. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Birdforum App

    I’m seeing that I can download the Birdforum App. Has anyone done it? Any views as to its worth?
  14. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    My local Song Thrushes often, but not this year! Imitate Oystercatcher. I usually take that as a sign that Oystercatchers have arrived in the valley. They only seem to do it in early spring. I suspect it’s because they hear it (at night?) and like the sound. 🤣
  15. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    The yearlist inches forward; #68 Oystercatcher flew a couple of noisy laps around the garden this morning. Normally a March arrival, though last year was February. A Lesser Redpoll perched up was unusual, never as common as Siskin, and even rarer for them to land. Too left bird, with 3...
  16. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    The dire year continues. So far behind where I would expect to be by this time. However a brief look at the garden this morning delivered a floppy #67 Lapwing making its way East. Just recorded once last year, a flock of 12 in the autumn, it’s always a welcome addition. The dot at the top of...
  17. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Just 27% flyovers for me. 73% have been on the deck or perched on a tree.
  18. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Because it ls in my garden?
  19. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    A day later than average, but my first singing #66 Blackcap in the garden this morning. Pheasant, Green Woodpecker and Marsh Tit amongst the supporting cast. Another new breeder, with Magpie building a nest. Something like 40+ species nest in or adjacent to the garden.
  20. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    A Super Galaxy inbound to RAF Mildenhall this afternoon, based at Dover AFB.
  21. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Confirmation for yellow-breasted chat, Georgia, USA, early september 2023.

    Philadelphia Vireo.
  22. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    #65 Rock Pipit (probably, though might not be able to rule out Water Pipit) flew over the garden this lunchtime. Called 3x. When I first claimed Rock Pipit I got into trouble with some localish birders. Water Pipit is more likely around here, in certain habitats, though I’ve certainly had Rock...
  23. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Succumbed to the pillow this morning, so was out about an hour later than planned. No worries, as I heard #64 Green Woodpecker after just a few minutes. I had difficulty in believing it, as it’s my first in nearly 10 months - a bird that I used to record pretty well every month except June, for...
  24. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    That’s it, thanks.
  25. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    Coming in and going around at RAF Mildenhall today. I’m thinking it’s a USAF Gulfstream. Seems to have additional fuel tanks on the ends of the wings. One engine either side of the fuselage just behind the wings.
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