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Invicta2Invicta2 Posts: 663
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My sister is signed up with some organisation to spend an hour every 31st January each year checking on the the bird species in her garden and sending in the results. This morning she tells me she spent 50 minutes staring out at steady rain from a grey tupperware sky [yes she lives in Manchester] with exactly zero birds in view. fed up she went to the kitchen to start a brew, came back and found loads of birds having what she called a party [ Magpies, blackbirds, robins and Blue Tits were some she mentioned. Encouraged she decided to have further hours viewing, went to collect her cuppa, returned to find all birds gone. After a further bird free 45 mins a solitary bird she could nor identify turned up [initially she thought it was a Green finch but there were yellow markings on the head]

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Siskin?

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543

    It's the same every year for me image

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,142

    It's been the same ever since the birds started reading the newspapers and listening to the radio - now they know when we're counting them and they go and hide image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    I thought goldcrest doc. Mainly because I have a regular one now!

    I think we could fool the birds for next year - we'll tell them it's happening the previous weekend, then sneak up on them on the usual one....image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,142

    Friend in Germany says their count is the previous weekend - maybe we could explain to the birds that the EU says we have to standardise image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    It has been so mild this year the birds have not eaten the berries I grow for them in m garden yet as they are still feasting on the bounty in the hedgerows so do not need to come into gardens.  They have eaten the pyracantha berries but not the holly or cotoneaster or rowan.  My birdcount was my usual tame birds whom I can rely on to be waiting for me every morning to put out titbits but if we have a cold snap at the end of the winter strangers will arrive and my count would be much different then.

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