Garden birds July 2019

This year I am keeping a list of birds seen in or from my garden.

July was a month of warmth, heat and rain – like most months of the year really. Everything was growing like mad in the garden though. More a month for butterflies than birds with Meadow Browns, Gatekeepers and Ringlets joining the earlier species this month. On 31 July I recorded the garden’s first Painted Lady of the year, even though I have seen them all over the place for a couple of months outside of this little plot. The Painted Lady was on one of the two buddleia bushes – both of which are just coming into flower and promise to be butterfly-catchers throughout August.

As Roderick Leslie pointed out, I actually ended June on 40 bird species for the year having omitted Swift from the list, and July added three more species, none of which was a garden-lifer.

Those three new species were Kestrel, early in the month, a Raven flying over and calling (only the fourth record for the garden but increasingly seen locally) and a Hobby just squeezing in to July yesterday evening.

Here is the list, so far, for 2019;

1. Robin
2. House Sparrow
3. Jackdaw
4. Blackbird
5. Woodpigeon
6. Starling
7. Black-headed Gull
8. Great Tit
9. Red Kite
10. Carrion Crow
11. Chaffinch
12. Goldfinch
13. Rook
14. Collared Dove
15. Dunnock
16. Wren
17. Long-tailed Tit
18. Blue Tit
19. Common Gull
20. Redwing
21. Fieldfare
22. Reed Bunting
23. Greenfinch
24. Blackcap
25. Song Thrush
26. Herring Gull
27. Lesser Black-backed Gull
28. Buzzard
29. Pied Wagtail
30. Stock Dove
31. Magpie
32. Green Woodpecker
33. Mallard
34. Sparrowhawk
35. Coal Tit
36. Swallow
37. Cormorant
38. Yellowhammer
39. Swift
40. House Martin
41. Kestrel
42. Raven
43. Hobby

The Fiedfares and Redwings of January feel a long way away.

Past Augusts have produced four species which would be new for this year: Goshawk, Peregrine, Sand Martin and Bullfinch. I think it is about time for an Osprey to fly over.

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