This year I am keeping a list of birds seen in or from my garden.
Here is the list for the year so far with the four extra species seen in April added to the bottom of the list.
- 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
- Magpie
- Green Woodpecker
- Mallard
- Sparrowhawk
35. Coal Tit
36. Swallow
37. Cormorant
38. Yellowhammer
So that brings the 2019 garden list to 38 species, but more importantly for the little challenge I set you back in January, it adds two species onto my lifetime garden list – Cormorant and Yellowhammer. That brings the garden list to 60 species.
Cormorant feels like a species that I must, surely, have seen at some stage but I really don’t think I have. And even this one was very distant. But Yellowhammer is a stand-out first for the garden. And it was a male. I wonder what a male Yellowhammer was doing sneaking around gardens instead of defending a territory on farmland. Admittedly it is a matter of a few hundred yards to the nearest field (we townies!) but even so…
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A good selection! My garden list is currently 47 for the year, partly because we were a bit restricted to home through the New Year as my partner was recovering from surgery, so she was on lookout by the living room window for much of the time! Even so, we did not find some of our spring regulars ( Siskin, Redpoll).
Apologies for the double post, due in part to techno-ineptitude! Please delete whichever one as they both say the same thing!! Garden list up to 48 for the year with the first Whitethroat singing in the hedge