RSPB Birdwatch

[wellinghall]

In one hour in our back garden, we saw:
- 1 robin
- 3 blue tits
- 2 collared doves
- 6 rooks
- 4 starlings
- 3 goldfinches
- 3 sparrows
- 2 blackbirds
- 1 magpie
- 1 woodpigeon.

More details here:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

My Mum does that one every year. I was there once at the start of the count, and I found it quite amusing that she was only interested in the highest numbers of a species seen at the same time. I imagined a team of 7 great tits doing some Olympic standard synchronised gymnastics over on one of the feeders, but my Mum saying, "Nope. Not interested. I've already got an 8 on great tits today." I imagined that the birds would be quite depressed at being dismissed as mere numbers, and that they'd resort to ever more dramatic ways to get her attention as the month progressed.

And, no, don't say it. ;-) I have an over-active imagination. ;-D

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The pigeon that flew straight into the (glazed) door got our attention - for a long time, in fact, until it was cleaned of the dusty pigeon-shaped mark. You could see the individual feathers.

And we had a stunned chiffchaff inside our conservatory once. It must have flown in through the open door, then tried to fly out through the closed one. It recovered, though.