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Comment by drcongo

11 hours ago

I call it Pokemon Go for grown ups. How many do you have in your life list? I finally managed to snag a Tawny Owl last week.

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nbaugh1  11 hours ago

I've got 33. I don't know how that stacks up against other but a large percentage of them came just from my backyard. Just got added a Baltimore Oriole that showed up this week.

  • astura  5 hours ago

    I've only been birdwatching since spring and I got 28 species already. Lots of seabirds because I spend a lot of the time at the beach.

  • drcongo  11 hours ago

    I'm up to 71 thanks to the joys of taking it on holiday to other countries (less joy for my family), and occasionally going places just because I know there'll be new birds there.

    Personal best for a single session is 23 birds in my back garden over the course of a couple of coffees. I have though spent a fair bit of time making the garden as attractive to different types of bird as possible - mainly through having a variety of different shaped feeders with different feed in. I can recommend the NatureSpy camera feeder too [0] - though I have had to modify it a little to make the food hole smaller otherwise magpies empty the thing in a single day just chucking all the seed on the floor. Dickheads.

    [0] https://naturespy.org/collections/wifi-solar-bird-feeder-nes...