I spent an hour yesterday counting garden birds for the RSPB Garden Birdwatch. It was a low count (probably the lowest ever) this year but the garden has been very quiet bird-wise this Winter.
Birds Seen in the Garden
Robin x 1
House Sparrow x 5
Wood Pigeon x 2
Blue Tit x 3 (one individual was investigating the nest-box in the Whitebeam)
Magpie x 2
Blackbird x 2
Coal Tit x 1
Dunnock x 1
Wren x 1
100 yards from the garden around 15 Magpies were congregating in a noisy and squabbling manner in a clump of trees.
I am sorry for lack of posts so far this year. I've been trying to decide whether or not to continue using this as a separate blog for my garden wildlife or to revert back to putting it all on Ragged Robin's Nature Notes. I will probably carry on with this one and perhaps put a link to it on my main blog. I still get visits from a couple of people to RRNN who I think in the main were only looking for moth posts so they must think I have given up on my moth trap and spend all my time church crawling and visiting NT properties!