Birds back in the Garden

[galanthus]

Like Dae mine haven't really gone away. Less in numbers maybe but always coal, great, blue and long-tailed tits, green, bull and chaff finches, blackbirds, dunnocks. Tho the robin laid low a little while as ever

Hoping the siskin and goldfinch will return after their debut last year

[Phoebe]

In my garden today I saw House Sparrows, Hedge Accentors, a Tree Sparrow, Blue, Great and Coal Tits, 2 Robins, a GSW, Ring Necked Doves, Blackbird, a Magpie, and Starlings one of which was bullied off a suetball by a very dominant male house sparrow! lol

[Digit]

Being gardeners as well as conservationists the wife and I planted hundreds of trees and shrubs and without a doubt we have the heaviest concentrations of birds of any body locally. The trouble is we rarely see 'em, aside from the feeders.
Hear them certainly, but the noise levels seem pretty much the same throughout the year.
So far I haven't seen a single migrant, apart from a possible Osprey heading south last month and lots of geese.

Roy.