Thursday 28th April 2005 Late News
Late news from Wednesday 20th April Garden
in Canterbury
Whilst doing some fairly major tidying in the garden of the house in
Canterbury where I have taken up temporary residence, came across 1 newt
sp. (probably Palmate), 1 Slow worm, 1 very
rapid vole sp. and 2 Violet Ground Beetles. (Dan
Chaney)
Wednesday 27th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
Between the showers today, a Sparrowhawk landed on
the back fence were it spread its wings to dry them. (Gadget)
Tuesday 26th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
I had my first Swift over the fields behind
the house this evening. (Gadget)
Thursday 21st April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
Two Brambling in the garden for most of the
day, and this time I had the opportunity to get some photographs, (gadget)
Wednesday 20th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
New bird 1st record for the garden Brambling it
dropped into the top of the tree before taking flight over the fields with
towards Pegwell. (Gadget)
Wednesday 20th April 2005 Garden Mark
Avenue Thanet
Saw my
first Hummingbird Hawk-moth of the year this afternoon in the
garden. (Paul Austin)
Friday 15th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
Despite the rain today the garden stayed busy, as
usual. Two new birds, for this year, were Chaffinch (both female),
and one Avocet flew across the fields, between the house and
Newland’s Farm, in the direction of Pegwell Bay this afternoon. A most
unexpected garden tick! (Gadget)
Tuesday 12th April 2005 Garden in
Cambridge
The Photograph of the Grass Snake has been
sent to the website from our friend Kevin Webb, who used to work at the
SBBOT but has moved on to better opportunities up in Cambridge. (Kevin
Webb)
Friday
8th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
A Song Thrush was feeding around the patio tubs and a Green
Woodpecker flew directly overhead as I was replenishing the feeders.
This afternoon, a pair of Magpies were sheltering in the hedge and
provided another opportunity for a kitchen window picture! (Dylan)
Wednesday 6th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
A few snippets from the last couple of days. A Green-veined White
butterfly was seen on Tuesday and a female Greenfinch visited
the seed feeders later the same morning. Conditions deteriorated
considerably overnight and strong SW winds have made moth trapping
pointless. I got some nice images of Merlin at North Foreland this
morning so, when this female Sparrowhawk landed on the
garden fence, allowing me ample opportunity to get some pics through the
kitchen window and delay the washing-up in the process, I
couldn't believe my good fortune! (Dylan)
Tuesday
5th April 2005 Garden News Birchington 1st-5th April
I
don’t know if these snippets are of any interest: 2 of the 20 or so Collared
Doves which regularly haunt our garden decided to build a nest in our
walnut tree; after two days the pair of Woodpigeons which are also
regular took exception and noisily evicted them, though they have of
course no interest in nesting themselves at the moment. A commotion
overhead on Friday proved to be a Sparrowhawk being mobbed by three
Ring-necked Parakeets they are noisy enough at the best of times -
this was horrendous! Our "White-cheeked" Blackbird is around again
for the fourth year some poor pictures attached - I'll try to get some
better ones (Bob H)
Monday 4th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
Very quiet around the feeders this week, just the usual mix of House
Sparrows, Starlings, Feral Pigeons and Collared Doves. Overhead
there has been a steady trickle of Meadow Pipits and Linnets
with the occasional Sparrowhawk (just to liven the gulls up!). 5 Redwings
flew west on Friday and I watched a fantastic piece of Kestrel
territorial display (by the Newland's Farm male) as he flew, very Redshank-esque,
on stiff, flick backed wings, over the fields behind our garden. (Dylan)
Monday 4th April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
New for the garden, this year, at 10-00hrs a Blackcap
dropped into the apple tree in the centre of the garden. Alas it didn’t
stay long enough for me to get a photograph! I also observed 8 or 9 Grey
Partridges
drop into the field behind my house whilst a Green Woodpecker
flew over towards the farm, all within seconds of each other. At 10-30hrs
a female Sparrowhawk tried to take a Collared Dove from the
top of the cherry tree fortunately, for the Collared Dove, she
missed and then flew away over the fields. (Gadget)
Friday1st April 2005 Garden Dumpton Thanet
Doing the moth traps this morning at 06-30hrs 1 Chiffchaff
in the hawthorn along side my house and 1 Great-Spotted
Woodpecker in the tree next to it then a Green Woodpecker flew
over the field behind my garden, then 3 Blue Tits drop onto the
feeders good start to the day (Gadget)
