tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post780176249457438300..comments2024-03-27T13:34:10.184+00:00Comments on NORTH DOWNS & BEYOND: Hoop hoop hooray!Steve Galehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-44613800070585600022020-05-04T17:12:32.557+01:002020-05-04T17:12:32.557+01:00Once again, thank you all for your updates and com...Once again, thank you all for your updates and comments.Steve Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-28811327156756693382020-05-04T15:40:22.252+01:002020-05-04T15:40:22.252+01:00Hi Steve,
thanks for your reply regarding birdtra...Hi Steve,<br /><br />thanks for your reply regarding birdtrack. I have tried using it the last few days. Gone back to using eBird. Just find it so much easier and user friendly. Anyway yesterday was a brilliant day, got to see my first BullFinch here in Langley Vale and whilst out in the garden I saw a Wood Warbler, which has been seen around Langley Vale Woods recently. before this all started, the most birds I had ever seen in my garden was 31, yesterday I got to see my 39th bird. I know it is not the back garden, but I have also been amazed by how many birds are in Langley Vale Woods since this all started.<br /><br />Cheech Albanese 31/39BirdingCheechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09854552747074739987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-19583426678530362012020-05-04T15:04:40.095+01:002020-05-04T15:04:40.095+01:00Hi Steve, Swift #67Hi Steve, Swift #67Bernard Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11675344180633882634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-62774816349931440652020-05-04T11:08:09.490+01:002020-05-04T11:08:09.490+01:00Hello Steve,
I added Whimbrel, a calling bird(s) ...Hello Steve,<br /><br />I added Whimbrel, a calling bird(s) over my garden last night. This was a garden first for me and takes my lockdown total to 46.<br /><br />I'm surprised that I haven't recorded Whimbrel before over my garden, as I have a few waders on the list, perhaps it's just that I haven't spent as much time standing outside after dark with a beer in my hand as I have recently!<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Seumus<br /><br />Seumus E Thornton Cleveleys, LancashireThe Hairy Birderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00245986796609261961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-88045778818350779452020-05-04T00:00:19.388+01:002020-05-04T00:00:19.388+01:00Steve, got Arctic Tern from the garden today. Had ...Steve, got Arctic Tern from the garden today. Had a tern yesterday but it was just too far away, however, in a couple of hours this morning (when I was trying very hard to get a Slav Grebe for the list - if I'd known about this game at the beginning that would have been a shoe-in) one flew by at identifiable range (there was another this evening as well). I added Swallow yesterday, finally, couldn't be 100% on a distant Sand Martin though. Other things added to my LDL today were Osprey, great views of one fishing Loch of Bosquoy before it went off north (not a common bird here), Stonechat, a distant pair on power lines. I think the distant Peregrine seen very far away as I was trying to add the Hoy WT Eagles to my LDL is to be added as well. A great morning though with a flock of ten Blackwits north and the most Red-throated Divers ever in one go, 8 different ones, and lots more of interest before the haze made viewing anything but the nearby Shunan impossible.Alastairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129076714821313669noreply@blogger.com