Zim Girl's 2nd Big Year 2019

[Towlersonsafari]

a raven hurrah! @Zim Girl  one of my  very favourite birds-and  now in Northamptonshire i can hear them most mornings from our house! on Sunday we saw 5 flying for fun as only ravens can

[Galana]

I love some of these terms that come into the text. Sofa search meant something quite different in my day.

(Like looking for lost spare change just in case anybody thinks I meant something else.!)

Did you get to try some of @michael-ibk's special dessert?

 

[Kitsafari]

On 7/10/2019 at 6:17 PM, TonyQ said:

Me three

 

 

me four.

[Zim Girl]

10 hours ago, Galana said:

Did you get to try some of @michael-ibk's special dessert?

 

We were treated to @AndMic's rather delicious carrot cake 

[Zim Girl]

So it is about time I got to 100.  

We heard reports of several Spoonbill making odd appearances at Leighton Moss so we stopped by on our way up the motorway and were lucky enough to find 5 of them.  As like last year a long way out but close enough for me to get an improved picture.  All 5 are in the first photo.

 

97. (UK 95)  Eurasian Spoonbill

 

Leighton Moss  -  13/07/19

 

Edited July 19, 2019 by Zim Girl

[Zim Girl]

And while we were there I was also able to take advantage of a group of Knot being a bit closer than usual. Looks like there is one in summer plumage towards the left of the picture and the Black-tailed Godwits provide more colour on the right.

 

98. (UK 96)  Knot

Leighton Moss  -  13/07/19

[Zim Girl]

A couple of weeks ago we went down to Preston Docks to see how the Common Tern colony was doing. At the last recorded count there were 78 nests with around 20 chicks, some on the point of fledging.  Also counted were 4 adult Arctic Terns.  I didn't get these last year so was very pleased when we found one as soon as we arrived.

 

99. (UK 97)  Arctic Tern

Preston Docks  -  07/07/19

[Zim Girl]

The Common Terns were putting on a great display chasing each other for fish and all the pontoons had adults busily feeding their young.  

 

100. (UK 98)  Common Tern

 

Older chick waiting patiently for food.

 

Others still waiting to hatch.

 

And a very obliging adult that came to have his photo taken.

 

Preston Docks  -  07/07/19

[Soukous]

A Centurion! Great Job

[Peter Connan]

Well done on the century Kit!

[Galana]

Ovation on the Century and nicely done with those Terns in which the differences show up nicely.

[Tdgraves]

Well done on the 100

[PeterHG]

Congrats on the 100 and some beautiful shots of both the Common and the Arctic Tern!

[Kitsafari]

Congrats on the 100th and a lovely tern to help celebrate it!

 

i notice the boxes - are those provided to encourage the terns to breed or have their habitat vanished and help is provided?

 

[TonyQ]

Well done on reaching 100!

Great seeing the two types of Tern

[pedro maia]

Congrats on the century!

[xelas]

Congratulations for #100 in BY 2019!

[Dave Williams]

Excellent images and well done on hitting a ton.

[Zim Girl]

On 7/20/2019 at 11:14 AM, Kitsafari said:

Congrats on the 100th and a lovely tern to help celebrate it!

 

i notice the boxes - are those provided to encourage the terns to breed or have their habitat vanished and help is provided?

 

Thank you, yes, this started off as a small project in 2010 by the local bird club.  Each year the number of breeding terns have increased and more nesting boxes were made for them. I read however that the chicks have suffered heavy predation from gulls in recent years.  The full story is here for anyone interested.  http://www.fyldebirdclub.org/preston-dock-terns.html

[Zim Girl]

So like most people, pickings are slim at the moment.  Just 3 to add to the count but one of them is new at least.

 

101. (UK 99)  House Martin

 

Conder Green, Lancashire  -  27/07/19  

[Zim Girl]

102. (UK 100)  Greenshank

Leighton Moss  -  03/08/19

 

[Zim Girl]

And a new bird from earlier in the year. That makes 15 new birds this year so far.

 

103. (UK 101)  Common Sandpiper

Langden Brook, Forest of Bowland  -  06/05/19

 

[TonyQ]

Well done on 100 UK birds!

[Soukous]

Terrific achievement Angie, 100 from the UK. We'll all have to watch out when you head overseas.

[Peter Connan]

Well done!