Good Bird Crop

[Red Squirrel]

Is anyone else having a better crop of young birds this year?

I can't remember ever having such a lot of young ones being brought by their parents into the garden.

[Richard Baber]

Well, I've certainly got a better crop of great tits this year, and frequent visits from a young nuthatch, which is unusual for me. Pretty much everything else is as normal, with fewer blackbirds than usual. I've got loads of blue tits too, but I had more than usual last year.

Richard

[Elizabeth B]

Lots of juvenile bluetits on our feeders - but that's not really surprising since 26 fledged recently from our three camera boxes. There's also a fair number of great tits and juvenile green and gold finches, but only one or two young blackbirds..

[Red Squirrel]

We've had a nest of jays in the past couple of days and plenty of g. s. woodpeckers. One thing I was really pleased about was young greenfinches.

Saw the parents a few weeks ago for the first time this year. The virus really decimated the population.

[Podgod]

Lots of green and gold finches along with loads of blue and great tits, I've also had a bumper crop of dunnocks and house sparrows. What is surprising though, no chaffinch this year.

[Elizabeth B]

Two juvemile jays today with their parents - searching for food on the lawn (where I put out a mixture of porridge oats, mixed seed, sunflower hearts and chopped peanuts).