That time of year again, the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, one of the world’s biggest exercises in citizen science. The usual drill: one hour of birding in the garden, with the counts being the maximum seen at one time.
- blue tit × 3
- great tit × 2
- coal tit
- long-tailed tit
- chaffinch × 3
- goldfinch
- woodpigeon × 2
- pigeon × 4
- magpie × 3
- blackbird × 3
- song thrush
- robin
- dunnock × 2
- ring-necked parakeet × 3
- sparrowhawk
There’s a few fairly regular visitors missing; greenfinch, jay, great-spotted woodpecker, goldcrest, nuthatch. But on balance think it’s a pretty decent list.