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  1. angusmcoatup

    Garden / Yard List 2025

    A new garden bird! - 59. Jackdaw. Not common round here, I can’t remember the last. 3 calling over the fields as I daydreamed. Fortunately I snapped out of it before they disappeared. 60. Brambling - 2 birds distracting me from chopping wood.
  2. angusmcoatup

    Garden / Yard List 2025

    I’ll try and catch up with this years list. My definition of “”garden” covers basically anything as far as the eye can see from the house 1. Grey Heron 2. Cattle Egret 3. Great Cormorant 4. Eurasian Sparrowhawk 5. Goshawk 6. Marsh Harrier 7. Hen Harrier 8. Long legged Buzzard 9. Steppe Buzzard...
  3. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    Yesterday, from the promenade (Kordon) a Greater Spotted Eagle crossed the lake towards the Hamitkoy Marsh. A 10 minute full pelt bike ride and another 10 minutes searching enabled me to get good views over the flooded pasture. This (presuming its the same) bird has been around since mid...
  4. angusmcoatup

    Garden / Yard List 2025

    I’m hoping to have the time to write this years garden list this weekend with occasional updates. Meanwhile I’ve just added Common Kestrel to the raptor list for this year which has been excellent so far. Long legged and Steppe Buzzard, Peregrine, Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk ...
  5. angusmcoatup

    Garden / Yard List 2025

    An eye level Hen Harrier from my desk yesterday was the first really notable garden (ish) bird of the year.
  6. angusmcoatup

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2025 edition)

    Çandır - SW Türkiye Blue Rock Thrush, Rock Nuthatch and Chukar.
  7. angusmcoatup

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2025 edition)

    Türkiye- Down to the lake and marshes . Lots of flooding and no bugger disturbing the birds. -Wryneck (singing!) -Great Bittern - Great White Egret -Cattle Egret -Little Egret - Glossy Ibis -Pygmy Cormorant -Great Cormorant -Common Teal -Wigeon (good record) -Tufted Duck -Coot -Moorhen...
  8. angusmcoatup

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2025 edition)

    Türkiye- tactical breakfast in Ağla, high above the town. - Krupers Nuthatch -Sombre Tit -Syrian Woodpecker - Coal Tit -Raven -Long legged Buzzard -Grey Wagtail
  9. angusmcoatup

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2025 edition)

    It’s looking like it’s going to be a crisp bright day here in Türkiye. First bird of 2025, easy one as it roosts nightly on the air con - Black Redstart Now for coffee and listing! -Hooded Crow -Song Thrush -Crested Lark -Great Tit - Chiffchaff -Blackcap -Robin -Blackbird -Jay -Chaffinch...
  10. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    Heavy rain and thunderstorms put a brake on my birding plans yesterday morning. Open road on a battered bike as the lightning flashes overhead and rain bounces off my face lost its appeal for me after the first year. Instead some window birding with a welcome though odd addition to the garden...
  11. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    I received my copy of this recently, excellent value at under 4 quid (162 tl) and a really useful tool for birding in Türkiye. Distribution has been a bit of a puzzle since moving here so it’s great to have an up to date reference book. Cracking image packed pages and an English/Turkish...
  12. angusmcoatup

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2025 edition)

    I’m in, great thread. 👍🏼
  13. angusmcoatup

    Birds on Lycian Way

    First one is a Robin. Unless I’m seeing the blurring of the image incorrectly the second looks like Chukar.
  14. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    For one reason or another I’ve neglected updating here for a while but may catch up slowly. Right now- a Barn Swallow is hawking above the orange grove next door. It’s a cold and damp day and has been for over a week, hopefully it moves onto somewhere warmer soon. Also a Peregrine male on the...
  15. angusmcoatup

    Scridifer's Bulgarian List 2024

    Nice to know Willow Tit (and Bullfinch) are still to be found at the place I first saw them almost 40 years ago. Still got that years notebook with me.
  16. angusmcoatup

    Black Redstarts in trees?

    The male birds I see here have the white wing panel of the European ssp. I only recall a couple which I assumed to be the Turkish Ssp which I believe are more usual to the east.
  17. angusmcoatup

    Black Redstarts in trees?

    South West Turkey
  18. angusmcoatup

    Black Redstarts in trees?

    I’ve been seeing at least one fly catching daily from a tall tree opposite my desk. There’s a couple using the avenue of Mulberry in the garden too. A male Stonechat is regularly using the same desk view vantage point. Black Redstart numbers are very impressive this autumn, absolutely...
  19. angusmcoatup

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Some good “garden” birds here in the last few weeks, a regular Stonechat across the road from my desk , Marsh Harrier male dropping in across the fields in dramatic style and a first Short Toed Treecreeper that actually was in the garden.
  20. angusmcoatup

    YesilUzumlu, Incerkoy and Cadianda areas.

    Aside from the big dense Mulberry trees here there are two small trees here with an out of proportion attraction for a variety of birds. One’s a dead orange tree that has hosted all 4 Shrikes, Wryneck, Rufous Bush Chat etc and the other is a weedy, almost leaf-bare pomegranite tree right by...
  21. angusmcoatup

    A one generation hobby…and a concern for the future

    Ive hitched a few times quite easily in Türkiye over the last few years. On a couple of occasions with my bike dumped on the back of a tractor trailer or a flat back lorry. I sometimes see others hitching the main roads too.
  22. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    I don’t remember seeing them on Sunday. Alpine Swifts still appearing late afternoon though.
  23. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    So many ChiffChaffs , Blackcaps, Lesser Whitethroats, Spotted Flycatchers, flitting about it takes a bit of patience or an odd call right now to concentrate enough to find something less common.
  24. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    10 minutes this morning, supping my morning brew overlooking the orange grove next door, was worthwhile. A lively vocal group of alpinus Long tailed Tits the highlight but also Lesser Whitethroats, Sardinian Warbler, ChiffChaffs, Blackcaps, Crested Lark, Spanish Sparrows , Lesser Spotted and...
  25. angusmcoatup

    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    12.10.24 Had a ride out to Hamitkoy. Wryneck, Barred Warbler, Water Pipit , Little Bittern,, 2 Greenshank and a Spur Winged Plover were highlights. Several Whinchats, Red Backed Shrikes, Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper , Water Rail and Spotted Flycatchers along the way and a small group of...
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