I hope this will help me to remember and enjoy this year of feathers,
to look for all the common birds (that's actually the way to find the rare ones).
Maybe I'll drop half way, maybe I will forget some species, does it matter?
It won't be a Big Year and, unfortunately, I am not going to be able to be "green" http://www.greenbirding.ca/, but I won't waste gas...just usual birding o, crazy enough as it is...
I will follow the IOC list.
It all started in Italy (1st to 6th of January), Matelica (MC), just hanging out in my garden between Lasagne e Tortellini...not serious stuff. Lost in the hills of Marche a little bit like the Tolkien's shire but with some mountains.
For sure I was lazy as most Hobbit!
1)Phalacrocorax carbo
2)Accipiter nisus
3)Buteo buteo
4)Columba palumbus
5)Streptopelia decaocto
6)Tyto alba
7)Strix aluco
8)Picus viridis
9)Dendrocopos major
10)Motacilla cinerea
11)Motacilla alba
12)Troglodytes troglodytes
13)Prunella modularis
14)Erithacus rubecula
15)Phoenicurus ochruros
16)Saxicola torquatus
17)Turdus merula
18)Turdus philomelos
19)Sylvia atricapilla
20)Regulus regulus
21)Aegithalos caudatus
22)Poecile palustris
23)Cyanistes caeruleus
24)Parus major
25)Sitta europaea
26)Certhia brachydactyla
27)Garrulus glandarius
28)Pica pica
29)Corvus monedula
30)Corvus cornix
31)Passer montanus
32)Fringilla coelebs
33)Carduelis chloris
34)Carduelis carduelis
35)Carduelis cannabina
I continued travelling back to Germany, Starnberg, in Bayern.
36) kestrel
37) grey heron
38) great egret
39) cattle egret
40) common starling
41) italian sparrow
Today I went for a quick pre-work bw session in south Ammersee. That's my local patch. The river Ammer flows into the lake Ammer (german humor?), there are small ponds and fields all around. A nice place (albeit too crowdy in sunny sundays ).
42) Mute Swans
43) Greylag Geese
44) Gadwalls
45) Common Pochards
46) Tufted Ducks
47) Velvet Scoters
48) Common Goldeneyes
49) Little Grebes
50) Great Crested Grebes
51) Northern Goshawk
52) Eurasian Coots
53) Black-headed Gulls
54) Yellow-legged Gulls
55) Common Kingfishers
56) Carrion Crows
57) Hawfinches
Then walking around my work place:
58) Raven
59) Common crossbils
that's it so far, a calm start :cat:
Enjoy birding
to look for all the common birds (that's actually the way to find the rare ones).
Maybe I'll drop half way, maybe I will forget some species, does it matter?
It won't be a Big Year and, unfortunately, I am not going to be able to be "green" http://www.greenbirding.ca/, but I won't waste gas...just usual birding o, crazy enough as it is...
I will follow the IOC list.
It all started in Italy (1st to 6th of January), Matelica (MC), just hanging out in my garden between Lasagne e Tortellini...not serious stuff. Lost in the hills of Marche a little bit like the Tolkien's shire but with some mountains.
For sure I was lazy as most Hobbit!
1)Phalacrocorax carbo
2)Accipiter nisus
3)Buteo buteo
4)Columba palumbus
5)Streptopelia decaocto
6)Tyto alba
7)Strix aluco
8)Picus viridis
9)Dendrocopos major
10)Motacilla cinerea
11)Motacilla alba
12)Troglodytes troglodytes
13)Prunella modularis
14)Erithacus rubecula
15)Phoenicurus ochruros
16)Saxicola torquatus
17)Turdus merula
18)Turdus philomelos
19)Sylvia atricapilla
20)Regulus regulus
21)Aegithalos caudatus
22)Poecile palustris
23)Cyanistes caeruleus
24)Parus major
25)Sitta europaea
26)Certhia brachydactyla
27)Garrulus glandarius
28)Pica pica
29)Corvus monedula
30)Corvus cornix
31)Passer montanus
32)Fringilla coelebs
33)Carduelis chloris
34)Carduelis carduelis
35)Carduelis cannabina
I continued travelling back to Germany, Starnberg, in Bayern.
36) kestrel
37) grey heron
38) great egret
39) cattle egret
40) common starling
41) italian sparrow
Today I went for a quick pre-work bw session in south Ammersee. That's my local patch. The river Ammer flows into the lake Ammer (german humor?), there are small ponds and fields all around. A nice place (albeit too crowdy in sunny sundays ).
42) Mute Swans
43) Greylag Geese
44) Gadwalls
45) Common Pochards
46) Tufted Ducks
47) Velvet Scoters
48) Common Goldeneyes
49) Little Grebes
50) Great Crested Grebes
51) Northern Goshawk
52) Eurasian Coots
53) Black-headed Gulls
54) Yellow-legged Gulls
55) Common Kingfishers
56) Carrion Crows
57) Hawfinches
Then walking around my work place:
58) Raven
59) Common crossbils
that's it so far, a calm start :cat:
Enjoy birding