Birdwatching

[white_hart]

Big Garden Birdwatch results in our garden:

3 dunnocks
2 sparrows
2 great tits
1 blue tit
1 collared dove
1 robin

A pretty fair representation of the birdlife in our garden; I think I have seen a wren at least once and recently we have both seen a bullfinch. And I'm quite surprised we managed a whole hour without any pigeons galumphing about.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

A respectable total. Despite having a bird feeder, I seem to do very poorly for birds in my garden.

[white_hart]

It took quite a while after first putting up our feeders (we have two, one for seeds and one for peanuts) before we started to get significant numbers of birds visiting them. And I think one reason they do reasonably well is that we've hung them from the fence on one side of the garden where our neighbour has bushes and an apple tree, so there are branches and leaf cover for them to fly up into when between pecks at the feeder. (My mother suggested this - they have a feeder on a pole in the hedge so the birds can fly down into the hedge and up to the feeder, and they get a lot of birds, though they're in the country rather than suburbia which makes a difference.)

[nineveh_uk]

My garden does lack winter cover, the more so since I had the pyracantha that was pushing over the fence taken out. Have just moved the pole slightly closer to the other fence to see if it makes any difference.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I know you know this already, but for completeness, adaese saw:
2 blackbirds
2 dunnock
1 robin
2 woodpigeon
2 great tit
1 magpie
2 blue tit
1 crow
(and a bumblebee, but it's the big garden birdwatch, not the big garden beewatch)

Somewhere, we've got a list of everything we have seen in the garden here ...

ETA: This is the latest version I can find:
http://wellinghall.livejournal.com/802986.html

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Seen in Dundee in the past hour:
1 seagull braving the blizzard...