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Recent content by Richard Prior

  1. Richard Prior

    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    I just check to see if a species is on the Excel sheet or not before 'claiming' a first for the world list (sounds a bit grand doesn't it !), I still don't see Cuckoo on the UK list though! Another one to add to Europe and the World lists just now, Spotted Flycatcher is 195 for Europe.
  2. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Barn Swallow?
  3. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    A nice surprise on yet another cool and wet day, only the second ever Spring record for here of a 73 Spotted Flycatcher perched up atop the trees across the road about 100m away. Earlier a male Linnet posed just outside the kitchen window and the Blue, Great and Coal Tit pairs are busy...
  4. Richard Prior

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    Well, the Black Grouse survey is becoming quite a saga. I returned to the sector on 26th, not long after dawn and equipped with snowshoes this time! Thankfully a few people had been up there since the previous Friday so I managed to yomp my way up to the highest point (1773m) of the transect...
  5. Richard Prior

    Switzerland 2024

    They’ll be organising weekly ‘pelagic’ birding trips on the lake at this rate Mike!
  6. Richard Prior

    Mystery bird outside Munich, Germany

    Difficult with just the brief description but in Germany a Great Grey Shrike would perhaps fit the bill.
  7. Richard Prior

    Switzerland 2024

    Superb looking bird and making for a remarkable rare gull double for landlocked Switzerland with the Audouin’s still present there:)
  8. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Cuckoo?
  9. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Nice one Frank, at least you identified it to species which is more than I did with my Harrier sp on Saturday ! :rolleyes:
  10. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Melodious Warbler
  11. Richard Prior

    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    For Europe I added Merlin and Hoopoe on 30 April and Cuckoo today, the hoopoe and Cuckoo both new for the World list too.
  12. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Garganey
  13. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Haha, good job I’m the calm type as a Pallid was seen near Geneva (c45kms North of here) mid- morning and another seen early afternoon about the same distance SW of us. Otherwise my face would be as red as Red Kite and my mood as black as a possible Black Kite ;)
  14. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I dream that one day a Sand Martin will get a bit lost and wander up here… Anyway, they say it’s the early bird that gets the worm, my problem today being that this particular early bird (me) couldn’t tell which ‘worm’ (bird) I had! 06h50, chuffed after successfully spotting a Cuckoo on the...
  15. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Lovely stuff Frank, I may have asked before, in which département is your property?
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