No visit was made to the surrounding patch today, instead I did a 4 hour garden bird watch. From 1.30 - 5.30 I watched the comings and goings of 16 species as they fattened up for the Autumn. the best of the 16 were -: A pair of COAL TITS, a pair of NUTHATCH and a Pair of GOLDCRESTS. One of the latter spent some minutes bathing in one of the small ponds - quite a risky bussiness, as earlier the SPARROWHAWK had taken a GOLDFINCH doing the same thing.
Birds seen in the vicinity or flying over my garden were few, but included- ROOK, CARRION CROW, JACKDAW,WOOD PIGEON, GREEN WOODPECKER, MISTLE THRUSH, BLACK HEADED GULL and BLACKBIRD. Blackbirds don't seem to be coming back to the garden yet, after their usual abandonment in early August.
The total species visiting the garden for this October stands at 24, with the total for combined Octobers at 30.
2 comments:
Great blog Warren. Have just discovered it via KENTOS. It makes great reading.
Noticed you've put my Mote Park blog in your links, thank you, I shall put yours in mine!
Simon
Thanks Simon, Ive just aquired a camera, so i'll try and add some pics.
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