Birds

[wellinghall]

After three months and one week in our new house, we have seen the following birds in our garden.


Collared dove
Wood pigeon
Blackbird
Robin
Great tit
Blue tit
Long tailed tit
Chiffchaff / Willow warbler
Song thrush
Jay
Goldfinch
Black cap
Chaffinch
Magpie
Dunnock
Wren
Pied wagtail

ETA: We haven't put redwings on the list because they were on the far side of the garden fence.


That's seventeen species.

Mammals are limited to a hedgehog and several cats!
ETA: adaese reminds me that she has also seen a squirrel in the garden.

Comments

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I am pleased to see that cats and birds can co-exist. Several of my neighbors told me that they use water sprays to keep my cats out of their gardens. They were slightly nonplussed when I said I used exactly the same technique myself (admittedly, I do it to keep them off tables, out of the kitchen, and claws out of soft furnishings rather than out of my bit of the garden.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Two comments on my posts this evening, and they're both from you :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

None of those, alas ...

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Is it really more than 3 months already?!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is (at least since we bought it; just under 3 months since we moved in)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You'll have to come back sometime, and smuggle a pair back to Hawaii with you :-)

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... not bad. Yesterday was an Altamira Oriole.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Show-off ... ;-)

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

They were so commomn that Annie got a photograph of one. Along with grackle, cowbird (2 types), ladder backed woodpecker, Montezuma's oropendola, grey necked wood rail etc. etc.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous!