Birds in my garden this week

Hi Linda, good idea for a post.

I have just signed up for the BTO and my count is as follows

• Blue tit 3
• Feral Pigeon 6
• Goldfinch 2
• House Sparrow 8
• Starling 11
• Dunnock 1
• Robin 3
• Collared Dove 3
• Woodpigeon 2
• Great tit 1
• Greater Spotted Woodpecker 1
• Magpie 2

I I have not seen my Blackcap, wren or had any Blackbirds this week.

Also for anyone thinking of signing up to do the BTO Garden Birdwatch incluede in the £15 fee is a lovely book called Garden Birds and Wildlife by Mike tomms and Paul Sterry worth £14.99

It has an excellent guide to the most common Garden birds and also give info about other mammals and plants to attract wildlife.  It's worth signing up just for the book (In my humble opinion)

Sarah :)

Here's my count:

Blackbird 8
Blue tit  3
Bullfinch 1
Carrion crow  1
Chaffinch  6
Coal tit  1
Collared dove  2
Dunnock  2
Goldfinch  9
Great tit  3
Greenfinch  2
Jay 2
Long tailed tit 5
Magpie 1
Nuthatch 1
Redwing  1
R N parakeet 2
Robin 1
Siskin 1
Starling  5
Wood pigeon 6
Common  redpoll  1

There have been ring necked parakeets in gardens not too far away for some years now, but we've(almost) escaped so far - just the occasional singleton on 2 or 3 occasions.  However in Week 10 there was one on the sunflower hearts - and last week there were two.  I hope it's not the start of an invasion!!!

I had one Ring necked parakeet in the snow but nothing since.  They fly over daily in a noisy group but have not dropped in again

Sarah

My BTO count this week?  A big fat zero - been on holiday :-)

Did see my first ring-necked parakeet though this week - well 4 of them actually - at Pegwell Bay near Sandwich.  Thought it was a ruddy weird green woody until the penny dropped - we don't get them up here in the perishing east!! 

Hope you had a good holiday Fittmonk,

I've never seen a ring necked parakeet either. I don't think they venture up north.

Hi Sparrow

Will have to make a point in doing a BTO count. 

Never got around to doing it yet at all - shame on me

Glad to see you back here Fittmonk {big smile}

There are lots of Ring Necked Parakeets in Hyde Park, London

Regards

Kathy and Dave

Susan H said:

I've never seen a ring necked parakeet either. I don't think they venture up north.

Hi Sparrow. give them time. They are spreading faster than bindweed!

Hi Sparrow They have been around the South East for quite some years now and I have seen them many times in Windsor Great Park and Hyde Park, but knowing your ability to attract birds, you should see them any day now!! 

LOL Brenda,

I'm not really laughing or smiling much today. It has been dull, dull, dull, and all my birds have disappeared. My pied waggie was there first thing but then he went, ONE SINGLE goldfinch for 10 minutes, 3 blackbirds still chasing each other, one rotund robin, some sparrows and dunnocks, no tits, believe it or not hardly any starlings, 6 jackdaws briefly, and a couple of ferals. The garden was so bereft of birds I spring cleaned the kitchen, or at least half of it. The rest tomorrow. I don't know why because it has been dry and milder than of late with a frosty night last night. My blue tit rooster is in bed, but I haven't seen him today either. Sob.