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.
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That’s a good selection. No Tit species turned up during my one hour but that is the chance element to randomly picking an hour to watch.
You can see my own results here:
http://my-garden-birds.blogspot.com/
Ah, house sparrow. I’d be lucky to get one of those a year.