12 Collard Dove, less than usual. 4 Blackbird 2 Chaffinch 7 Starling 3 House sparrow 2 Robin 2 Bluetit 1 Great tit 1 Magpie 1 Dunnock 3 Goldfinch 1 Coaltit 2 LTTit 1 Jackdaw 1 Goldcrest, Feeding on peanuts, this was the surprise of the morning, just shows what is there if only we look long enough. Two species I used to see, but missing since the snow - Greenfinch and wren.
Hi Ina It seems a good cross section just like ours. I always think that the birds that are not present are as important as the ones that are counted.
It was a good cross section of birds that I would normally see with a few omissions like Greenfinch, Wren, Mistle Thrush or Long Tailed Tits. It was a very cold morning with -2ēC being recorded at the beginning of the count at 09:40 and the temp only rose to -0.8ēC at it's end at 10:40. So in Euro Style...Here are the results from the Wild Rossendale garden
Song Thrush x1 Blackbird x9 Blue Tit x3 Great Tit x2 Coal Tit Dunnock x1 Jay x2 Chaffinch x4 Goldfinch x3 Robin x3 Starlings x12 Collared Dove x2 Magpie x2 Feral Pigeon x1
-- Edited by Ste Rush on Sunday 31st of January 2010 11:19:00 AM
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feral pigeon - 12 great spotted woodpecker - 2 dunnock - 2 song thrush - 1 blackbird - 5 robin - 2 starling - 5 blue tit - 3 great tit - 2 long tailed tit - 5 house sparrow - 6 chaffinch - 10 greenfinch - 6 goldfinch - 9 bullfinch - 3
Although we have still got a few greenfinches still coming to the feeders, numbers are well down on what they were last year. We also missed out on coal tit and brambling for the first time in 8 years.
