Is this Cheating?

In our quest to record wildlife in the garden, is it cheating to count something that was actually found in our neighbours garden, but brought across to ours to see if we knew what it was?
Well it's in our garden now, so I'm going to count it........

An Elephant Hawk Moth Caterpillar. Handsome beast isn't he!
A little later today, we spotted birds flying into the Rowan in the field behind. After much viewing with binocs and even resorting to the telescope, we have discovered that it is a flock of (at least) four Mistle Thrush. Not something that either of us have witnessed other than singularly before.