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  1. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    An unusual record today with a Kestrel over West: normally we only see dispersing juveniles in early autumn. 62. Kestrel. Edited from 61 after realising Goldcrest was 61. John
  2. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Goldcrest finally chirped up yesterday afternoon and I didn't realise I hadn't recorded it for the garden this year. It used to be a January bird but the Leylandii hedge at the end of our terrace has been chopped down: Coal Tit is another loser from that. 61. Goldcrest 13/5 I heard a juvenile...
  3. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Another long garden watch today and some reward among the 34 species seen and heard: 60. Hobby High but much appreciated as it circled with some wary Swifts. John
  4. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Nice sit in the sun this morning and three Swifts overhead, plus a trickle of Swallows North and a single House Martin loitering low. 59. Swift Also garden tick Downy Emerald flying over! Cheers John
  5. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Late notification: I was outside changing the powerbank on the moth trap late the other night (3/5) and heard a Coot calling as it seemed to fly along the line of the brook. 57. Coot. I'm also trying to track down a list inconsistency as my year list table shows 58 in the garden and I have...
  6. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Overdue garden tick Osprey, South a bit West of our position and then five minutes later back North straight over the top. A good reward for a three-hour sit in a plastic chair looking up. Garden list now stands at 106 spp. 56. Osprey John
  7. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Oh what a Circus..... John
  8. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    For instance: https://www.birdforum.net/threads/odd-bop-neast-london.410554/post-4199290 https://www.birdforum.net/threads/garden-yard-list-2020.384988/post-4005614 Have a nice day John
  9. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Having seen some of your previous claims that you did image, all of which showed identifiable Red Kites, this isn't even a case of an unfair records committee when I say that you may not claim Black Kite without a full-frame sharp photo in good light. 65. John
  10. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Your hundred metre time is what? ;) John
  11. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Or to look at that from the other perspective, one in ten of its guesses will be wrong, even of the birds it can hear - which may or may not be what you are listening to. That's far too high for a marketed product, I hope nobody is paying for this. There's a webcam in Finland (Nuuksio) which...
  12. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I'm with you on Merlin. All it does is encourage the fantasists among the newbie birders. People need to buckle down to using field guides and learning calls: there may be short-cuts in the future but there aren't at the moment. John
  13. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Birdsong for the hard of hearing? John
  14. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    In between chopping up the remains of the fence panels destroyed by various storms over the winter, I spent a fair amount of today watching the sky and trees around my back garden. I got a house tick out of it as well as seeing yesterday's singing Blackcap for the first time and three House...
  15. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    54. Blackcap. A male singing on the far side of the brook, invisible in newly greened-up trees and bushes. Chiffchaff in there somewhere as well, and the usual Sparrowhawk and Red Kites joining a pair of Buzzards overhead. In contrast to recent months, just one Herring Gull out of the larger...
  16. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    An afternoon garden watch yielded the first House Martin of the year, over North without a backward glance. 53. House Martin It feels an uphill struggle at the moment though! John
  17. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Between one thing and another I didn't get out into the garden till about 1100 this morning but mixed blue sky and cloud with a South-West wind yielded 10 Buzzards moving East: two groups of three and some singles. No less than five Ravens wandering about (1 + 3 + 1) were also nice but...
  18. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    The big 50 up this afternoon with the first Swallow of the year North over the back garden. John
  19. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    49. Kingfisher on the brook an overdue addition to the garden list this year. John
  20. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Probably my first concentrated garden watch of the year (interrupted at present by rain) has so far yielded four garden year ticks, as follows: 45. Song Thrush 46. Greenfinch 47. Peregrine 48. Stock Dove Those were the highlights of 34 species this morning to this point though a Sparrowhawk...
  21. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Naturally as you look at this new categories come up and my garden list of 104 spp breaks down as follows: In the garden or in a narrow definition of garden airspace: 44% (46 spp) Outside the garden on the deck or perched: 14% (14 spp) Flyover: 40% (42 spp) Call: 2% (2 spp: Common Scoter and...
  22. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    44. Buzzard - courtesy of a long session giving the buddleia its severe annual haircut now that the small birds have less need of its seeds and before it grows even more and takes over the whole garden. My goodness I can see a lot more sky now.... John
  23. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    It can't repeat again until it has repeated.... John
  24. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Sign of the times: first Chaffinch for the garden this year this morning. 43. Chaffinch 5/3 John
  25. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Greylag calling over as I was getting up this morning so from the bedroom window: 42. Greylag Goose Cheers John
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