This year I am keeping a list of birds seen in or from my garden.
The Snowdrops are gone but the Forsythia is now in full bloom.
Well, I’m on a respectable but not very impressive 34 species so far in 2019, with March bumping up the number by 4 species:
- Robin
- House Sparrow
- Jackdaw
- Blackbird
- Woodpigeon
- Starling
- Black-headed Gull
- Great Tit
- Red Kite
- Carrion Crow
- Chaffinch
- Goldfinch
- Rook
- Collared Dove
- Dunnock
- Wren
- Long-tailed Tit
- Blue Tit
- Common Gull
- Redwing
- Fieldfare
- Reed Bunting
- Greenfinch
- Blackcap
- Song Thrush
- Herring Gull
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Buzzard
- Pied Wagtail
- Stock Dove
31. Magpie
32. Green Woodpecker
33. Mallard
34. Sparrowhawk
So that brings the 2019 garden list to 34 species, but more importantly for the little challenge I set you back in January, it adds a species onto my lifetime garden list – Mallard. Surely I have seen a Mallard or two over the garden before? Have I? I honestly can’t remember doing so before, and I certainly haven’t made a record of them if I have, so that brings the garden list to 58 species.
By the end of March the butterfly list for the garden in 2019 stands at four species: Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock and Holly Blue. The first Orange Tip must be soon – although it seems there is some nippy weather also expected soon.
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