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Saturday January 30, 2016 by Steve J
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Not done a count yet, but not so many visitors to the garden today, apart from pheasants.
Half an hour at the kitchen window, a quick walk round Parwich Hill and a trek over to Ballidon yielded the following –
Black Headed Gull
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Bullfinch
Buzzard
Chaffinch
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Crow
Dunnock
Fieldfare
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Jay
Kestrel
Lesser Black Backed Gull
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Mistle Thrush
Nuthatch
Pheasant
Robin
Rook
Sparrowhawk
Woodpigeon
Wren
Tawny Owl -Heard (half the night!) but not seen
A total of 32 species so far!
The drizzle has kept numbers low in our garden today too. Although we have observed increased numbers of chaffinch and goldfinch over the last few weeks.
Today’s results
Bullfinch (male only, rarely see females)
Goldfinch
Robin
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
9 female pheasants!!!
1 male pheasant
Nuthatch
House sparrows
Goldcrest (attempting to get onto fat ball feeder, not seen that before)
Great tit
Wood pigeon
Blue tit
Blackbird
Marsh tit
Dunnock
Wren
Crow
Collared dove
Coal tit
Only based on looking out of the window now and again but very disappointing bird list today:
Pheasant
Black bird
Robin
House sparrow
Dunnock
Jackdaw
Where were the wren, the wood pigeon, the collared dove and all finches and tits that normally come most days?