This year I am keeping a list of birds seen in or from my garden.
November has been a bit of a dank month and most of my birdwatching was done in the first half of it. I added one species to the 2019 garden list which was also a new species, ever, for the garden.
The species in question was a fly-over but its wingbar and inane twittering called it out as my least favourite UK bird – the Linnet. Oh well, you can’t win them all.
Here is the species list, so far, for 2019;
- 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
- Coal Tit
- Swallow
- Cormorant
- Yellowhammer
- Swift
- House Martin
- Kestrel
- Raven
- Hobby
- Peregrine
- Sand Martin
- Pheasant
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Chiffchaff
- Tawny Owl
- Goldcrest
- Skylark
- Jay
- Grey Wagtail
- Linnet
I asked you to guess what the garden list total (ever) would be by the end of the year – for fun. It started on 56 species and I’ve now added seven species (Herring Gull, Cormorant, Yellowhammer, Mallard, Goldcrest, Jay and Linnet) this year to bring the total so far to 63 species.
Of those readers who had a guess, for fun, on what that total will be at the end of 2019 these are the survivors:
- Owen 62 species
- Alan Cranston 64 species
- Nick Bee 64 species
- Darren Riley 65 species
Just 30 days to go…
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Well done that linnet.