Local highlights

[vinnychameleon]

Hi guys. Thought I would start this thread to see what highlight species people have living in their local area around their house. I have Goshawks, Hobbys and Dormice.

[JeffH]

Wow! - Goshawks & Hobbys (not to mention the Egrets & Kingfishers you mentioned in another thread)? In which part of the country do you live??

Here in our garden in rural Cambs our most interesting species are probably the locally resident Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Tawny Owls, Sparrowhawks, Kingfishers, Grass snakes and Muntjac deer - I'd swap any of these (except our garden pond visiting Kingfisher) for a Goshawk!

[yellowhammer]

I too am envious of the goshawks, even though I saw my first one this year.
In the garden I have roe deer, badgers, foxes, hobbies, one red kite and snipe.

It should probably be mentioned that my garden is 120 acres of Somerset countryside...

cheers,

Ian

[Fourwings]

My own Garden highlight has to be the Leicestershire's only recorded breeding colony of Long-Winged Conehead.

Aside from that we have recorded to date,
12 species of Damsel & Dragonflies
22 species of Butterflies
123 species of Moths
4 species of Bush Crickets
5 species of Grasshopper

We are visited daily by Badgers and foxes, and we get the odd Muntjac every now and again.
As yet we haven't made a bird list, thats next on the list along with a plant survey.

It's probably worth pointing out that our garden consists of a fairly normal house garden and vegetable patch onto which joins 4 acres of wild meadow which contains three ponds and half an acre of woodland/scrub.

[vinnychameleon]

Hi guys i'm in Devon and the Goshawk is only seen away from the cover of the woods at around 7:30 am.

[Oscar2006]

In (from) my garden I have recorded.......

12 Colly birds
11 different butterflies
10 larks, finches and buntings
9 species of waterfowl
8 Poplar hawkmoths
7 warbling warblers
6 English tits
5 species of thrush
4 types of corvid
3 species of woodpecker
2 collared doves
and a pheasant by my pear tree!

(the last line is absolutely true! )

Merry Christmas to all WAB members

[vinnychameleon]

Hi Oscar you've had an LSW in your garden, sweet . I wanna attract my local ones into mine what was it doing in ur garden.

[Oscar2006]

Originally Posted by vinnychameleon

Hi Oscar you've had an LSW in your garden, sweet . I wanna attract my local ones into mine what was it doing in ur garden.

er no, not yet!
I've had Green, Great-spotted and Wryneck
still waiting for Lesser-spot

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by vinnychameleon

Hi guys. Thought I would start this thread to see what highlight species people have living in their local area around their house. I have Goshawks, Hobbys and Dormice.

My garden highlights are when I see house sparrows and starlings. Have, or have had, far more uncommon birds but .... - it's a funny old world!

[vinnychameleon]

Sorry Oscar when you said three species of woodie I presumed the three resident ones. But wow a wryneck that musta been something. Oh yeh and heres a photo of (possibly) one of my local goshawks but is to blured and far away to tell exactly.