RSPB Gardenwatch

I didn't get chance to do my hour until Monday afternoon, it wasn't the best time of day but it was better than not doing it at all!

In the end I saw 9 species, though not in great numbers -

Robin 2
Starling 28 (this number is a garden record)
Coal Tit 1
Blue Tit 2
Goldfinch 2
Great Tit 2
Blackbird 1
House Sparrow 1
Long-tailed Tit 1 (the rest of the flock turned up about twenty minutes after the hour was up!)

A few photos taken through the window.

In the Garden

The birds are really taking their time coming back into the garden at the moment. We have a new feeder set up and part of the old one nearer the house, so far i've only seen Robin singing on it. This morning a Coal Tit decided to single handedly try and eat all the sunflower hearts.

Hopefully he'll be back a bit more often now!

In the garden

My climbing rose is showing off it's last flowers of the summer, we'll be cutting it right back this year, there's a lot of new shoots around the bottom and a lot of deadwood around the middle.

This was taken at the beginning of August.

These are from Sunday

There was a brief visit from a Coal Tit but still the birds are mostly absent.

A couple of other images from Sunday

Mint

In the Garden

It's been a busy couple of weeks in our garden. We have up to 24 Goldfinch, with over half of them juveniles in and around the feeders, Blue, Great and Coal Tits, Robins, Starlings, House Sparrows, Collared Doves, Woodpigeons, Greenfinch, Magpies. A rare visit from a Chaffinch a couple of times too. The Dunnocks have been a bit scarce but the past couple of days we've had two or three around. The Blackbirds are starting to show up again in the trees, not quite venturing into the garden yet but it's nice to see and hear them around.

There have even been two new garden firsts, yesterday a Chiffchaff, which to be fair spent most of the time in the neighbours garden but I did get a few blurry shots through the window and it did make in to mine just! This morning we had a Great Spotted Woodpecker in our tree, it wasn't there long enough to grab the camera unfortunately. I have never seen a Woodpecker in our town in the 8 years i've lived here so to get one in the garden albeit briefly is fantastic. Fingers crossed something on our feeder will entice it back again.