ZooChat Big Year 2015
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BIRDS:
5. Blue Jay
6. Rock Dove
MAMMALS:
1. Eastern Gray Squirrel
I have seen a few hawks, but I haven't gotten very good views of them, though I suspect one is a juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk. But I don't know for sure, so for now, it stays off the list.
Managed to get two new birds while driving through Chelmsford:
62. Herring gull Larus argentatus
63. Feral pigeon Columba livia
And then added six new birds - half of them lifers (indicated in bold) - on Wallasea Island.
64. Common redshank Tringa totanus
65. Corn bunting Emberiza calandra
66. Reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
67. Common shelduck Tadorna tadorna
68. Bewick's swan Cygnus columbianus
69. Rough-legged buzzard Buteo lagopus
Also added a new mammal on Wallasea:
4. Brown hare Lepus europaeus
62. Herring gull Larus argentatus
63. Feral pigeon Columba livia
And then added six new birds - half of them lifers (indicated in bold) - on Wallasea Island.
64. Common redshank Tringa totanus
65. Corn bunting Emberiza calandra
66. Reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
67. Common shelduck Tadorna tadorna
68. Bewick's swan Cygnus columbianus
69. Rough-legged buzzard Buteo lagopus
Also added a new mammal on Wallasea:
4. Brown hare Lepus europaeus
Birds:
1. Common Raven
2. Black-billed Magpie
Mammals:
1. Northern Red-backed Vole
2. Red Fox
1. Common Raven
2. Black-billed Magpie
Mammals:
1. Northern Red-backed Vole
2. Red Fox
Are there free ranging muntjacs in England?
There are indeed; have been for something close to a century.
I guess the saying is true, you learn something new every day.
Are there free ranging muntjacs in England?
Yes - in 1901 eleven Reeve's and thirty-one Indian muntjac were released in the woodlands around Woburn (the Indian deer died out after a relatively short time). Between the 1930s and 1952 there were seven further releases in other counties. The first one recorded in Essex - where I live - was exactly 40 years after that first release. Now they are found pretty much anywhere in the county with reasonably tall vegetation; they are much more common than any of the other three species of deer in the county.
Common misconception; the pure Woburn Indians hung on a lot longer than was initially thought - into the 1940's I believe - and later releases also included Indian blood. It is believed that the feral population in the UK is more or less entirely Reeves now, but with a dash of Indian blood still present in animals found in Bedfordshire.
Interesting. One question - were these animals released into the deer park and then escaped or properly into the wild?
As I understand it all "releases" were accidental, involving escapes from the deer park and other private collections.
cloudedleopard
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No, not thylacine but I got more birds today-
10. House finch
11. Red-bellied woodpecker
AverageWalrus
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Today brought 3 new species for me
10) Blue Jay
11) American Crow
MAMMALS:
2) White Tailed Deer
10) Blue Jay
11) American Crow
MAMMALS:
2) White Tailed Deer
cloudedleopard
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12) American crow
(How do Hix, Chlidonias and some of these others get 80 or 90 by now?)
(How do Hix, Chlidonias and some of these others get 80 or 90 by now?)
3) Rock Dove
jbnbsn99
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We know our local birds. We know where to find them We travel to see birds we can't get locally.
mstickmanp
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Went looking for a Tropical Kingbird and Eurasian Wigeon but I dipped on both. Fortunately I did get two lifers and three year birds while looking for these two vagrants.
149. Red-throated Loon
150. Least Bittern
151. Thayer's Gull
152. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
153. Redhead
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