Patch Birding Yvonne's Local Patch - 2024

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Welcome to 2024 and wishing you all the best for the year to come!

My first bird of the year on my Askernish patch was a Blackbird, second bird of the year was a White-tailed Eagle - there can't be many places this would happen

1. Blackbird
2. White-tailed Eagle
3. Tufted Duck
4. Greylag Goose
5. Starling
6. House Sparrow
7. Dunnock
8. Robin
9. Whooper Swan
10. Collared Dove
11. Wigeon
12. Redwing
13. Moorhen
14. Rock Dove
15. Buzzard
16. Greenland White-fronted Goose
17. Skylark
18. Hen Harrier
19. Lapwing
20. Common Gull
21. Herring Gull
22. Great Black-backed Gull
23. Cormorant
24. Shag
25. Shag
26. Eider
27. Hooded Crow
28. Long-tailed Duck
29. Gannet
30. Sparrowhawk
31. Twite
32. Golden Plover
33.Mallard
34. Raven
35. Mute Swan
36. Teal
37. Curlew
38. Goldeneye
39. Little Grebe
40. Ringed Plover
41. Red-breasted Merganser
42. Great Northern Diver
43. Song Thrush
44. Goldfinch
45. Greenfinch
46. Chaffinch
47. Sanderling
48. Bar-tailed Godwit
49. Redshank

Hen Harrier

Song Thrush

 

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50. Wren - ringed in the garden

 

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51. Snipe - very cold and frosty overnight brought a Snipe into the garden looking for food
52. Goldcrest - a male ringed this morning

The local lochs were frozen first thing this morning

 

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53. Linnet - one at the feeder this morning.

Fourth day of snow here

Looking south from home towards Hallan. In the far distance you can just make out the snow white hills of Barra. No ducks, geese or swans on the loch, it's been frozen for a couple of days now.

 

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54. Kestrel seen flying over late morning
55. Woodcock at dusk

 

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56. Shoveler
57. Pintail

Both at Loch Hallan

 

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58. Long-tailed Tit in Bill's garden

 

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59. Pied Wagtail

Flew over while I was sitting on the bench outside the house enjoying the sunshine. Not new for the patch list this year but two White-tailed Eagles gave great views too.

 

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60. Meadow Pipit - at last! They have been absent from the patch so far this winter, this one was in the garden this morning.

 

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61. Merlin on the machair this morning

 

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62. Lesser Redpoll, a ringed bird in the garden, first ringed here as a juvenile bird on 9th August 2023