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  1. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Shelduck season is upon us - half a dozen headed north over Caer Estyn this morning. James
  2. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Good day today - Spotted Flycatcher & Whitethroat (latter heard only) new for the year, and Peregrine over. James
  3. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Good day today - Spotted Flycatcher & Whitethroat (latter heard only) new for the year, and Peregrine over. James
  4. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    A good few days, with Swift & Lesser Redpoll (a bit of a garden rarity) on Sunday and a distant Lapwing and a Peregrine over yesterday. James
  5. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    The Snow, and our local pale female Buzzard (pic taken from the back door). James
  6. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Goodness, no updates for nearly 5 months? Well, nothing spectacular yet this year, a couple of Lapwing at the back end of January, and a Pheasant calling from across the river for the past couple of weeks. Summer migrants have been slow to arrive; didn't get Chiffchaff till April! A big arrival...
  7. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Gosh, been a while! It's been pretty quiet is why, but here are the highlights of the last 4 months, and few and far between they have been. A heard only Green Woodpecker on 29th July; a tatty looking Red Kite over on 19th August; and handful of Hobby sightings, last on 17th September; a Tawny...
  8. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Hobby, finally, over on Saturday. James
  9. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Great day yesterday, for year ticks anyway. owing to an extremely rare conluence of events I had a good chunk of the afternoon to myself, at home and with fine, calm weather. So I sat in the garden with a book ("I, Partidge: we need to talk about Alan"), half reading and half scanning around...
  10. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Four Grey Herons headed south at around 09:00 yesterday, and in the afternoon I could hear a Whitethroat (63) singing in the distance upstream - my first June garden Whitethroat. James
  11. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    A late calling Cuckoo, rather distant over towards Hope Mountain, was a surprise garden mega at lunchtime on Friday. Calling again at half four the following morning. James
  12. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Looks like the local Peregrines have bred this year, if what was perched on next door but one early this morning is anything to go by.... James
  13. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Yesterday evening there was a Green Woodpecker yelling its head off for at least half an hour from poplars the other side of the river, but damned if I could get sight of it, with willows on this side of the river obscuring much of the area it seemed to be calling from. Still, I'll take a heard...
  14. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Finally!!!!! Pied Wagtail over on Sunday morning. James
  15. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Swift over this morning. And 54 species this April makes it my highest scoring April so far. Attached are a couple of shots of the Alyn where it passes behind the house, before & after all this rain. James
  16. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Willow Warbler singing this morning while I de-iced the car. Incongruous. James
  17. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    A neat trio of hirundines over the past week or so; a couple of House Martins on 6th (earliest by 2 days), a Swallow on 7th and then three Sand Martins on the evening of 12th. James
  18. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Little Egret heading north in the distance on Sunday evening, and this morning my latest ever garden Redwings over. James
  19. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Garden tick this morning (06:00)...Hedgehog! Snuffling its way across the lawn. James
  20. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Indeed so, just a couple of days to go now! Two Canada Geese headed downstream at 06:45 this morning - 53. James
  21. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    Cheers Delia Birthday went fine (for a work day that is). Treat to come at the weekend in the form of a trip to the ballet (Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker - can't wait)! James
  22. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    First Chiffchaff yesterday, singing and flycatching in the willows by the cars. Also a couple of Rook flew by; finally! Then in the afternoon a typically brief view of Treecreeper on a tree behind the feeders! Still quite a garden rarity, Treecreeper, and this one was my first for March! Also...
  23. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    That goes for Fieldfare too, one of which flew over heading west on 6th, my latest ever garden Fieldfare, and first for March. Also Goosander & Peregrine in the past few days. James
  24. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    And things have remained pretty quiet since then. Year list currently stands at 46; my slowest start to date. Best offering so far has been a Curlew over on 20th Feb, my earliest by about a week. On the flip side, this is the furthest into any year since moving that I've gone without Tawny Owl...
  25. JWN Andrewes

    Garden Patch, Caergwrle.

    What a pants autumn. After last year's excellent showing, this year has been really disappointing. Oh well, here's a brief overview, for what it's worth. We start, though, with a garden mega - 2nd record of Lesser Whitethroat! Great bird, wrong garden; it was at my parents' place on 12th August...
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