Garden List 2012

[~T~]

1. Coal tit
2. Blue tit
3. Great tit
4. House sparrow
5. Reed bunting
6. Dunnock
7. Robin
8. Siskin
9. Goldfinch
10. Green finch
11. Chaffinch
12. Bullfinch
13. Starling
14. Blackbird
15. Collared dove
16. Feral pigeon
17. Wood pigeon
18. Magpie

[MartinL]

Don't get Magpies or any Gulls. Buzzards and I'm sure a red kite can be seen from the garden but do not visit. The only bird of prey to visit our garden is a Sparrow Hawk. I must admit to strategic positioning of some peanut feeders in order to sacrifice some tits to this awesome predator. It is amazing to see.

Next door have Green Woodpeckers but thankfully our lack of lawn does not encourage them to visit, my bees are pleased with that! We had a lesser spotted on the peanuts last year.

In addition to our feathered friends we have several bats once it's warm enough, Pipistrelle and the odd Brown Long eared mostly. Don't know where they hibernate but have built bat boxes to position sometime soon.

Hundreds of frogs descend in spring and the slugs are kept in check by a few resident Toads tucked up in the compost heap as I type.

Our garden isn't open enough to encourage any reptiles, so to our knowledge, non of the snakes or slow worms seen basking only a few doors away visit, although it would help keep down the frogs (maybe the do??).

Friends across the road have a variety of wild foul which unfortunately also attract mink, we're thinking of finding some way of trapping them,(predatory vermin in my view).

What would I like to discover this year????
Maybe an excuse for a new thread!

[thewoose]

Added a Wren this morning, to take me to 20.

MartinL - as far as i'm aware, the rules of Garden List are anything see in, from, or flying over one's garden (they don't have to land!).

[MartinL]

Originally Posted by thewoose

MartinL - as far as i'm aware, the rules of Garden List are anything see in, from, or flying over one's garden (they don't have to land!).

In that case could I add the seafire that put on a display last year? It emptied the pub, loop the loops, barrel rolls, e.t.c. flew over our garden lower than some of the birds! WOW!!

[Cordaline]

Had this lovely female Great Spotted Woodpecker on my nut feeder this morning.

[markbugman]

So far this year
1 House Sparrow
2 Chaffinch
3 Greenfinch
4 Goldfinch
5 Robin
6 Dunnock
7 Starling
8 Magpie
9 Collared Dove
10 Woodpigeon
11 Black-headed Gull
12 Herring Gull
13 Lesser Black-backed Gull
14 Song Thrush
15 Mistle Thrush
16 Goldcrest
17 Pied Wagtail
18 Blue Tit
19 Great Tit
20 Coal Tit
21 Long-tailed Tit
22 Sparrowhawk
23 Blackbird
24 Grey Heron
25 Jackdaw
26 Carrion Crow
27 Cormorant
28 Feral Pigeon

Regards
Mark

[shenk1]

Originally Posted by Cordaline

Had this lovely female Great Spotted Woodpecker on my nut feeder this morning.

Snap ....I had the boy version for the first time this year




33 Great Spotted Woodpecker

34 Mute Swan

[Cordaline]

Originally Posted by shenk1

Snap ....I had the boy version for the first time this year

A great garden bird in my opinion.

[earthdragon64]

Flying over the garden;

23 Greylag Geese
24 Hooded Crow

Regards, Audrey.

[Puntalara]

Very cold here today, so my first visit for 2012 for this one.

18. GS Woodpecker