Showing posts with label Brambling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brambling. Show all posts
Saturday, 31 January 2026

Year List Update

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 As January comes to an end, I felt it was time to update the Year List. There have been 5 new species since my last post. The first additio...
Sunday, 14 January 2024

Year List Update - 14th January 2024

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This weekend, I managed to add another 4 species to my "Year List" for 2024, taking my total so far this year to 101. The first ne...
Sunday, 9 January 2022

Year List Update

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The Year List has continued to grow this week, with 9 new species added. Red-legged Partridge was seen whilst driving across to Rufford. Nu...
Sunday, 12 January 2020

Year List Update

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Last week, Luke and I visited Linacre (see here ). Whilst there, I managed to add several birds to my "year list" (numbers 61 - 71...
Sunday, 14 April 2019

Linacre Nestboxes and Summer Migrants - 14th April 2019

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Luke and I were down at Linacre this morning to have the first check of the nestboxes for the BTO's Nest Record Scheme . We went around ...
Sunday, 7 April 2019

Linacre Bird News - 7th April 2019

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Luke and I were at Linacre this morning for a walk around all 3 reservoirs. We recorded the following waterbirds: Mallard (37), Tufted Duck ...
Saturday, 2 February 2019

Year List Update - 2nd February 2019

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It's been a while since I updated the 2019 Year List, and, as you can see, there are a few new additions. The Song Thrush was heard ...
Sunday, 21 October 2018

Linacre Ringing - 20th October 2018

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This month's ringing session at Linacre started at 6:45am, just before it got light, so that we could set the nets up and ready to try a...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

Year List Update

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After walking around Linacre yesterday, I had an hour up at Shillito Woods. I put out some seed, and within a few minutes there were 13 Bram...
Sunday, 3 April 2016

Garden Finches and a juvenile Woodpigeon

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I watch and record the birds in my garden every week for the BTO's Garden Birdwatch Scheme . I don't blog about the results often, b...
Sunday, 17 January 2016

Snowy Garden adds two new species

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Last night brought a few hours of snow to the garden, the first proper snow of the winter so far, and meant that I woke up to this lovely, i...
Monday, 16 November 2015

Year List update

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This weekend has been very good for birdwatching, with 3 new species added to the Year List, in addition to the Black-necked Grebe mentione...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

Linacre WeBS - January 2015

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The first WeBS count of 2015 took place this weekend. Mandy from the Chesterfield RSPB Group carried out the count on Saturday. and Jayne a...
Sunday, 28 December 2014

Garden birds in the snow.

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We've had a bit of snow here over the last few days, so I've been watching the garden intently to see if we got any different visito...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

Garden Brambling

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Whilst watching the birds in the garden this morning for the BTO's Garden Birdwatch Scheme , I noticed my first Brambling of the winter...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

Chiffchaff ringing

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Following on from last week's blog about my first Chiffchaff sightings of the year, today I was out ringing with The Group , and I mana...
Monday, 20 January 2014

Ringing Tick and Year List Update

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Yesterday morning I was up and out with the Sorby Breck Ringing Group again. This time we helping out at a ringing demonstration at the Nat...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Garden Birding and Year Tick

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I spent a few hours watching the birds in the garden this morning, and was really happy to count 17 species including at least 39 Goldfinche...
Sunday, 3 November 2013

One bird - three ticks

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I'm not a twitcher (honestly!!), but when I switched Birdguides on today and saw news of a Glossy Ibis in Bakewell I just had to go ov...
Saturday, 2 November 2013

Garden Brambling

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Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) is an uncommon visitor to the garden, with my only other sightings usually in March/April, or during b...