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Big Garden Birdwatch (31/365)
It's the last weekend in January, which means it's the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch. As anyone who's ever tried doing it knows, invariably bird numbers during whatever hour you spend counting will be far lower than they normally are wherever you are, but I still managed to see:
Five goldfinches
Three robins, who spent all the time trying to chase each other off
Two greenfinches
Three great tits
A siskin
Two blackbirds
T, refilling the feeders
A blackcap
A chaffinch
A dunnock
A pale ginger kitten in the garden two doors down
A man in pyjamas, also in the garden two doors down, scattering grass seed
The orange and white cat we often see around
A starling in the tree on the other side of the garage blocks
Of course, ten minutes after I'd finished a bullfinch came and sat in the tree by the fence, and ten minutes after that there were five siskins and about a dozen goldfinches.
Five goldfinches
Three robins, who spent all the time trying to chase each other off
Two greenfinches
Three great tits
A siskin
Two blackbirds
T, refilling the feeders
A blackcap
A chaffinch
A dunnock
A pale ginger kitten in the garden two doors down
A man in pyjamas, also in the garden two doors down, scattering grass seed
The orange and white cat we often see around
A starling in the tree on the other side of the garage blocks
Of course, ten minutes after I'd finished a bullfinch came and sat in the tree by the fence, and ten minutes after that there were five siskins and about a dozen goldfinches.