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  1. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Well, that was well talked up. #78 Nuthatch this morning, calling from a corner of the garden. It looks like it is becoming a June thing. Dispersing juveniles? The grey square was the dead one. You can see its local demise from the 2019 records. Perhaps that was the outlier, and recent...
  2. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    🤷🏻‍♂️
  3. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    It must be a June thing. Two years ago, I found this by my front door. 🚪
  4. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Still nothing new in the Arctic conditions in the garden, we even put the heating on today - June! The weird Duck which has occasionally visited over the last couple of years, has been around for the last few days. Filmed it from the bathroom window. I used to think it was Mallard x...
  5. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Four or more House Martins prospecting eaves on our estate all day today, I’m hoping they move in. Just one pair checked out a roof once last year. I’m pretty sure they nest in a much newer estate across the river, so it’s a surprise they don’t nest here. The pair of Swifts seem to be still...
  6. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Nothing new, sadly, but a pair of Swifts investigating a roof of one of the buildings on our estate was new. Never seen one land in the garden before (once just across the river in a neighbouring estate) I got nest boxes put up in the big old church tower in the centre of town, but I’ve no...
  7. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Just got back from a West Country jaunt with Mrs. BH, hardly any birding, though my first Cirl Buntings for 10 years, were very welcome. Late news from just before we went away was #76 Corn Bunting. A bird flew overhead at one of the corners of the garden, and appeared to land in a tall tree...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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. 🤣
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

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

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Because it ls in my garden?
  22. 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.
  23. 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...
  24. 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...
  25. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I’m at 10m, but I’m also on the first floor. So ground level here is about 6m. The river is lower still, at about 0m.
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