BGB Results!?

bramble67 said:

Mine were actually quite good for my garden owing to spending the kids food money on meal worms and suet pellets, and a new ground feeding tray

I hope the kids enjoy their mealworms and suet pellets!!! Better than beans on toast any day!

OK, here's my count: yesterday before lunch

starlings    15

house sparrows    8

jackdaws    4

blackbirds    3

feral pigeons    3

robins    2

goldfinches    2

dunnocks    2

collared doves    2

blue tits    2

wren    1

song thrush    1

coal tit    1

I was pleased about the wren. I don't get them as a rule, and haven't seen one for ages.

I was quite pleased with my results

I saw

4 blackbirds

2 blue tits

21 chaffinches

1 coal tit

2 collared doves

3 dunnocks

9 Goldfinches

1 great tit

8 greenfinches

1 house sparrow

2 long tailed tits

3 robins

10 starlings

1 wren

3 siskins

I am very envious of anyone getting finches in their gardens.  I am still hopeful.  Should I put sunflower hearts or niger seed out on their own or will this make no difference.  It's the chicken and egg I suppose

Average year I'm afraid..

1. Robin                -       1
2. Starlings           -       15
3. Greenfinch       -       1
4. Song Thrush    -       1
5. Blackbirds        -       2
6. Blue tit               -       1
7. Great tit             -       2
8. Sparrows         -        3

Goldfinches didn't turn up!

Long tailed tits and five greenfinches came an hour late. Still it was nice to see the Song Thrush, a recent arrival. 

Hi everyone,

Just about an average day for me, although a bit quieter than of late.

Dunnock                               3

Robin                                    2 ~(fighting to the death- or at least severe injury)

Blackbird                             2

Blue tit                                2

long tailed tit                     2 (first time visitor to garden)

Woodpigeon                    2

Gt tit                                   1

plus 3 little brown jobbies I haven't pinned down yet!!

My results were : 1 blackbird

                               3 Blue tits

                              2 Great tits

                             1 Robin

                             2 Song thrush

                             2 Magpies

We normally see more, they must have known we were watching!  lol xx

Well we managed a few birds - difficult to decide which hour to take as I did 3 different ones and had a few different species each time but I had to go with the first hour, Sunday morning 8am to 9am as it included 2 blackcaps (1m and 1 f) which I don't see every day!! The annoying thing was my old faithful Robin didn't turn up at all and Mr Dunnock only made a showing on the third count as did Mrs Wren. Never mind, hopefully they were in somebody elses garden being counted at the time.

Total from memory:

• Blackbirds 4
• Woodpigeons 4
• Sparrows 3
• long tailed tits 2
• Blackcaps 2
• Blue tit 1
• Great tit 1
• Greenfinch 1

By the way do you think the birds know about us counting them only uncannily as well as the blackcaps appearing 3 sparrows came from out of nowhere (I have not seen any in my garden since I started taking a keen interest in the summer!)?

Nick

We had:

Blackbird  2

Blue Tit  2

Chaffinch  3

Dunnock  4

Great Tit  2

House Sparrow  8

Magpie  1

Robin  2

Starling  10

Woodpigeon  3

Wren  2

Bullfinch  2

Grey Wagtail 1

Coal Tits, Long Tail Tits didn't show up unfortunately

We are in the East Midlands by the way

To be honest the birds i saw were not fed, because mine where seen on a small bit of grass surrounded by wood and so i saw them in totally naturalcircumstances. 

With no food i was surprised to see

43 Redwings (all in one tree)

2 Mistle Thrushes

2 Pied Wagtails

1 Meadow Pipit

2 Blue Tit

2 Great Tit

1 Robin

1 Blackbird

2 Great Spotted Woodpecker

and the rest i cant remember DOH