It’s that time of year again. Time for some citizen science! I got off to a great start with two siskins, and ended up with a respectable 17 species:
Blue Tit × 6
Great Tit × 4
Long-tailed Tit × 3
Chaffinch × 5
Greenfinch × 7
Goldfinch × 3
Siskin × 2
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Nuthatch × 2
Woodpigeon × 2
Feral Pigeon × 4
Collared Dove
Great-spotted Woodpecker × 2
Green Woodpecker
Magpie × 2
Collared dove is a new one for the BGBW; it’s a species that only turns up in the garden very occasionally. As always a few regular species failed to show: coal tit, goldcrest, jay and most surprisingly, ring-necked parakeet. But it was still a good year.