Great spotted woodpecker has put in appearance now the rain stopped, so has a robin. Some crows and rooks looking sorry for themselves in the oak up the field too.
I get little brown jobs which aren't sparrows and which I always find hard to identify - assorted warblers probably and siskin and dunnock. Then the usual suspects - sparrows, chaffinches, robins, blackbirds, blue, great and coal tits plus occasional marsh tits, wrens, greater spotted woodpeckers, turtle doves, pheasants, jays, jackdaws ....
No greenfinches anymore, no nuthatches or tree creepers. No gold or bullfinches despite planting teasels and putting out niger seeds.
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Topped up the bird table with this today and had the first Brambling of the year within an hour! Tree Sparrow and six Greenfinches also visiting.
Great spotted woodpecker has put in appearance now the rain stopped, so has a robin. Some crows and rooks looking sorry for themselves in the oak up the field too.
I'm very impressed with the Garden Warbler record, Pansyface. You must be in a very warm part of the country.
Just the regulars yesterday -
blackbirds
wood pigeons
goldfinches
blue tits
gt tits
blackbirds
collared doves
starlings
robin
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
great tit
blue tit
robin
chaffinch
so far this morning
I get little brown jobs which aren't sparrows and which I always find hard to identify - assorted warblers probably and siskin and dunnock. Then the usual suspects - sparrows, chaffinches, robins, blackbirds, blue, great and coal tits plus occasional marsh tits, wrens, greater spotted woodpeckers, turtle doves, pheasants, jays, jackdaws ....
No greenfinches anymore, no nuthatches or tree creepers. No gold or bullfinches despite planting teasels and putting out niger seeds.
Blue Tits getting feisty over our NT Tasty Table mix this morning.
Lovely picture Alan, just spotted the long-tailed tits visiting
They were off to a slow start this morning, bit fresh out there today!
So far,
Jay
Blue tit
Great tit
Sparrow hawk (missed as usual, and skulked off to the neighbours roof)
Chaffinch
Robin
Saw a large flock of geese early on in the distance, probably over the Blackwater Estuary.
Not quite as many as usual today, but have had the following visitors
blue tits
great tits
coal tits
long-tailed tits
a magpie
a cock pheasant
a blackbird
a wren
a robin
and about 30 geese flying overhead towards the lake nearby.