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  1. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    or a hedgehog ...
     
  2. Macaw16

    Macaw16 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    A bird which has been seen a few times recently in my garden, but only today have I managed to see it (22/6/2017):

    116. Stock Dove Columba oenas
     
  3. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    186. Northern mallard
    187. white browed babbler
     
  4. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    169. Australian Pratincole
    170. White-faced Heron

    :p

    Hix
     
  5. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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    A good couple of hours around south stack, Anglesey added quite a few more. Surprisingly there were no terns at Cemlyn bay as the colony has been abandoned due to excessive predation apparently by otters.

    190. Guillemot
    191. Razorbill
    192. Puffin
    193. Chough
    194. Rock pipit
    195. Fulmar
    196. Peregrine
    197. Shag
     
  6. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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    Today I decided to try yet again to find a Black Stork and again I failed despite traveling to a location where they're supposed to be quite reliable. I'm beginning to think the whole species is made up just to play a joke on me. :p

    There was other cool stuff around though:
    439) Red-backed Shrike
    440) Common Grasshopper-warbler
    441) Great Grey Shrike
    And another really nice species seen was a Hoopoe which was my first clear and photographable sighting in Europe and my second sighting ever in Europe, though I saw the species earlier in the year in Thailand.

    And the afterwards I visited a location about an hour's walk away from my house because I had heard that there was a breeding pair of Little Bitterns around there, which turned out to be correct!

    442) Little Bittern
    443) Syrian Woodpecker
    444) European Serin
     
  7. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Spent today at Chester playing zoo tour guide for my parents - but managed a sneaky mammal addition!

    Mammals:
    22. House Mouse - Mus musculus

    Amused to note that the (excellent) recent WildGuides book 'Britains' Mammals', in its 'Where to Look' section for House Mouse, specifically recommends zoos (alongside farms and the London Underground) as good places to see the species.
     
  8. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Fish
    6. Blind Shark (Brachaelurus waddi)
     
  9. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    final two for the month, with a combination of insular honeyeater and European accentor which only makes sense in New Zealand.

    594) Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
    595) Hedge sparrow (Dunnock) Prunella modularis
     
  10. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    and the monthly round-up.

    TLD seems not to have any mammals. I'm not sure if this is his oversight or mine, or maybe he's just decided that mammals are too uninteresting.


    BIRDS:

    Chlidonias – 595
    LaughingDove – 444
    robmv – 217
    Hevden – 197
    boof – 187
    Ituri – 180
    Maguari – 172
    Hix – 170
    DesertRhino150 – 144
    Vision – 136
    Zoo Tycooner FR – 136
    GerbenElzinga – 134
    lintworm – 119
    KevinVar – 117
    Macaw16 – 116
    TeaLovingDave – 115
    jbnbsn99 – 111
    Fireplume – 108
    vogelcommando – 90
    animalszoos – 80
    savethelephant – 80
    ThylacineAlive – 79
    Pleistohorse – 54
    zooboy28 – 48
    BeardsleyZooFan – 40
    animal_expert01 – 40


    MAMMALS:

    Chlidonias – 83
    Giant Panda – 49
    LaughingDove – 42
    lintworm – 25
    Maguari – 22
    DesertRhino150 – 21
    Zoo Tycooner FR – 17
    savethelephant – 16
    animalszoos – 14
    Hix – 14
    Vision – 13
    Fireplume – 12
    Macaw16 – 11
    Pleistohorse – 11
    ThylacineAlive – 11
    Ituri – 9
    animal_expert01 – 7
    GerbenElzinga – 6
    KevinVar – 6
    BeardsleyZooFan – 6
    vogelcommando – 1


    HERPTILES:

    LaughingDove – 34 Herptiles total (23 Reptiles, 11 Amphibians)
    Ituri – 13 Herptiles total (11 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
    Hix – 13 Herptiles total (13 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
    animal_expert01 – 9 Herptiles total (8 Reptiles, 1 Amphibians)
    Maguari – 6 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 5 Amphibians)
    ThylacineAlive – 6 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 4 Amphibians)
    Fireplume – 5 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
    DesertRhino150 – 4 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
    Vision – 4 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
    Macaw16 – 3 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
    lintworm – 2 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
    KevinVar – 2 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)


    FISH:

    Hix – 271
    DesertRhino150 – 7
    Maguari – 6
    animal_expert01 – 6
    Fireplume – 1


    INVERTEBRATES:

    Maguari – 58 assorted
    DesertRhino150 – 39 assorted (17 lepidopterans, 10 hymenopterans, 12 odonatans)
    Hix – 21 assorted
    animal_expert01 – 3 assorted
    ThylacineAlive – 2 lepidopterans
    Fireplume – 1 lepidopteran
     
  11. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Mammals:
    1. Masked Shrew
    2. House Mouse
    3. Brown Lemming
    4. Northern Red-backed Vole
    5. North American Red Squirrel
    6. North American Porcupine
    7. River Otter
    8. Red Fox
    9. Arctic Fox
    10. Brown Bear
    11. Polar Bear
    12. Moose
    13. Caribou
    14. Musk Ox
    15. Ringed Seal

    Birds:
    1. Greater White-fronted Goose
    2. Snow Goose
    * Snow Goose / White-fronted Goose Hybrid
    * Blue Goose morph
    3. Brant
    4. Cackling Goose
    5. Canada Goose
    6. Trumpeter Swan
    7. Tundra Swan
    8. American Wigeon
    9. Mallard
    10. Northern Shoveler
    11. Northern Pintail
    12. Greater Scaup
    13. Spectacled Eider
    14. Common Eider
    15. King Eider
    16. Long-tailed Duck
    17. Red-breasted Merganser
    18. Willow Ptarmigan
    19. Common Loon
    20. Red-throated Loon
    21. Pacific Loon
    22. Red-necked Grebe
    23. Osprey
    24. Bald Eagle
    25. Rough Legged Hawk
    26. Merlin
    27. Peregrine Falcon
    28. Sandhill Crane
    29. Semipalmated Plover
    30. Black-bellied Plover
    31. Greater Yellowlegs
    32. Semipalmated Sandpiper
    33. Pectoral Sandpiper
    34. Long-billed Dowitcher
    35. Red-necked Phalarope
    36. Mew Gull
    37. Herring Gull
    38. Glaucous Gull
    39. Glaucous-winged Gull
    40. Bonaparte's Gull
    41. Arctic Tern
    42. Parasitic Jaeger
    43. Long-tailed Jaeger
    44. Black Guillemot
    45. Rock Pigeon
    46. Short-eared Owl
    47. Downy Woodpecker
    48. Hairy Woodpecker
    49. Steller's Jay
    50. Gray Jay
    51. Black-billed Magpie
    52. Common Raven
    53. Violet-green Swallow
    54. Black-capped Chickadee
    55. Boreal Chickadee
    56. Red-breasted Nuthatch
    57. American Robin
    58. Bohemian Waxwing
    59. Orange-crowned Warbler
    60. Yellow-rumped Warbler
    61. Savannah Sparrow
    62. Lincoln's Sparrow
    63. White-crowned Sparrow
    64. Dark-eyed Junco
    65. Lapland Longspur
    66. Snow Bunting
    67. Common Redpoll
    68. Pine Siskin
     
  12. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Ruaha National Park

    Birds

    120. Variable sunbird
    121. Lesser masked weaver
    122. Crowned lapwing
    123. Goliath heron
    124. Mourning collared dover
    125. Glossy ibis
    126. White-headed buffalo weaver
    127. Abyssinian scimitarbill
    128. African paradise flycatcher
    129. Purple-crested turaco
    130. Bohm's spinetail
    131. Rufous chatterer
    132. Wattled starling
    133. Green-winged pytillia
    134. Slate-coloured boubou
    135. Blue-naped mousebird
    136. Dark-backed weaver
    137. African pygmy kingfisher
    138. Pearl-spotted owlet
    139. Crowned hornbill
    140. Crested francolin
    141. White-browed scrub robin
    141. (African) Hoopoe
    142. Nubian woodpecker
    143. Blue-cheecked bee-eater
    144. Red-eyed dove
    145. Lesser kestrel
    146. Jameson's firefinch
    147. Yellow-collared lovebird
    148. Abdim's stork
    149. Speckle-fronted weaver
    150. Von-der-Decken's hornbill
    151. Lesser striped swallow
    152. Wahlberg's eagle
    153. Red-billed buffalo weaver
    154. Buff-crested bustard
    155. D'arnauds barbet
    156. Grey-capped social weaver
    157. White-bellied bustard
    158. European roller
    159. Pygmy falcon
    160. Isabelline shrike
    161. Giant kingfisher
    162. Greater painted snipe
    163. Pied kingfisher
    164. Lesser honeyguide
    165. Superb starling
    166. White-browed sparrow-weaver
    167. Ashy starling


    Mammals
    26. Greater kudu
    27. Black-backed jackal
    28. Thomas's dikdik
    29. Grant's gazelle
    30. Lesser kudu
    31. Ochre bush squirrel
    32. Yellow-spotted bush hyrax
    33. Bat-eared fox
    34. Neumanns grass rat
    35. Lesser free-tailed bat
     
  13. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Spent yesterday evening on a crepuscular excursion to the fringes of Sherwood Forest, in the hope of seeing woodcock and at least hearing a nightjar. A very slow start suddenly became one of the most exciting half hours of wildlife watching I've had so close to home. Big thanks to the three local birders I ran into who supplied valuable local knowledge (and extra eyes and ears!). Three new year birds and among them two long-standing members of the Heard But Not Seen Club have been converted to proper sightings at last - and at one point I had all three species calling at once within about a 50m radius of where I was standing. I'll certainly be back.

    Birds:
    173. Eurasian Woodcock - Scolopax rusticola
    174. Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
    175. European Nightjar - Caprimulgus europaeus


    :)
     
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  14. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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    I presume you went to budby.
     
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  15. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Yes indeed. Action was up the pumphouse end of the heath near the vestigial bit of MoD land. First time I've been there 'nocturnally' and I really don't know why - wonderful place.
     
  16. Pertinax

    Pertinax Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    If the place is right and the weather good/calm, Nightjar will almost never let you down, usually with great visuals including wing-clapping and also circling around you if you are standing in a prominent position. Great spectacle- I usually make sure I see them a couple of evenings every year. Must go out soon...
     
  17. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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    If you walk from the pumphouse there are usually a couple of nightjars churring from the first clearing on the right. The fenced off mod area is usually good for woodlark too although they are also regularly seen/heard all over the common.
     
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  18. LaughingDove

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    I spent quite a lot of time today in an area of woodland that is just about a comfortable walking distance from my house and saw lots of really nice stuff. Mostly stuff that I had already seen for the year but I got a really good prolonged view of a pair of nesting kingfishers that were only about 50m away, and getting long-awaited lifers (especially the two birds) within walking distance of my house is awesome!

    445) Common Nightingale
    446) Eurasian Golden Oriole
    447) Spotted Flycatcher
    448) Eurasian Wryneck

    35) Sand Lizard

    36) Wild Boar
    37) Bank Vole

    The Wild Boar sighting was really cool. I first saw something smallish in the middle of the path a few metres ahead of me which at first I thought was a domestic cat or something until I realised it was a wild boar piglet. I had obviously startled the rest of the family which was off to the side of the path a few metres ahead of me so they all ran off. Baby wild boars are so cute! :p
     
  19. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    I've merely not updated my list in several months :p really need to get around to doing so.......
     
  20. Mehdi

    Mehdi Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Better late than never, I guess?

    18 - Striped ground squirrel, Xerus erythropus
     
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