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Post by rowanberry on Jan 23, 2021 20:48:58 GMT
Can't believe it's that time of year again already... next weekend, Jan. 29th-31st.
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Post by Tringa on Jan 29, 2021 18:09:10 GMT
Anyone else having a problem with completing the online list for the Garden Birdwatch? Two birds I saw that were not on the picture list were ring necked parakeet and great spotted woodpecker. I tried to enter both these birds in the box below the photos - the box immediately after Have you seen something that isn't here?
Type into the box below to add a bird to your list. Once you've added it remember to enter the number you've seen. If you're unsure what you've seen you can check our Bird Identifier.
I thought I had been successful but neither of these two birds were recorded in my Top Six pie chart shown at the end of submitting the result.
The GSW could have been omitted from the top six as I saw only one, but I recorded three parakeets so they should not have been missed from the top six.
Puzzled.
Dave
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Post by Tringa on Jan 29, 2021 18:11:48 GMT
Ooops! I am a numptie. I was not waiting long enough for the page to update and now I have the two additional birds I wanted.
Dave
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Post by rowanberry on Jan 30, 2021 20:59:09 GMT
The weather here was so dire today I've put off doing it...  Gusting winds, sideways rain... about all that braved the elements today were sparrows, starlings, and one wren. It's supposed to get quite cold tonight, but there might be a bit of sun in the morning. Well done getting three parakeets, Dave! |
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Post by Tringa on Jan 31, 2021 14:15:41 GMT
Parakeets first turned up here a few years ago and we would see them flying over the garden a couple times a week. In the last few months they have been regular visitors to the garden. It is rare for one or more(I think the maximum is 5)not to visit the feeders every day.
Dave
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Post by rowanberry on Feb 1, 2021 18:47:00 GMT
That has to have been the most disappointing Garden Birdwatch result I've done to date. Barely more than a dozen birds, (almost all of those sparrows) and I think if the woodpecker hadn't turned up I'd be tempted to not even submit them! No goldfinches, no great or coal tits, no robins... all the daily regulars must have been lured away to some other garden with superior suet pellets.  |
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Post by ianr on Feb 2, 2021 8:41:17 GMT
lured away to some other garden with superior suet pellets. Made me smile rowenberry  thank you The guy over the road here must be using them too 'berry flavoured suit pellets' he was telling me the other week he's getting regular visits from nuthatch. I only catch a quick glimpse. I've never done a big garden birdwatch counting the different species would be easy but individuals nigh impossible  ian |
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Post by Tringa on Feb 2, 2021 9:13:02 GMT
In our garden it is the goldfinches that are the most difficult to count. There are so many of them and they are very rarely still. This year I counted 12 but there could easily have been more.
Dave
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Post by Psamathe on Feb 2, 2021 9:39:04 GMT
I didn't take part as I seem to have been abandoned by the visiting birds for the last week! No idea why but "nobody".
Ian
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Post by rowanberry on Feb 2, 2021 10:11:57 GMT
I didn't take part as I seem to have been abandoned by the visiting birds for the last week! No idea why but "nobody". Ian Yes, it's those superior suet pellets, Ian, ('nods wisely'). All the birdfood suppliers have been having sales on prior to the run-up to the Garden Bird Watch. Your birds will be back next week when your neighbours' feeders run out. |
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Post by aeshna5 on Feb 11, 2021 13:16:51 GMT
The last 3 or so years I've been away for a long birding weekend in Norfolk with friends but for obvious reasons this year's trip was called off, so did my count on the Friday morning. Fairly average but had:
3 Wood Pigeon
3 Ring-necked Parakeet
male Blackbird
5 Starling
3 Robin
2 Dunnock
2 Blue Tit
2 Great Tit
1 Crow
1 Magpie
15 House Sparrow
3 Goldfinch
Sadly couldn't count the Red Kite that flew low over the garden.
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Gusting winds, sideways rain... about all that braved the elements today were sparrows, starlings, and one wren. It's supposed to get quite cold tonight, but there might be a bit of sun in the morning. 
thank you
