Here is the list for 2014
Chaffinch - most common and frequent visitor to the garden
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| female chaffinch |
Blue tit
Coal tit
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| coal tit |
Robin
Dunnock
Great Tit
Blackbird
Greenfinch
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| green finch |
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Pheasant
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| male pheasant |
Siskin
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| male Siskin |
Redpoll
House sparrow
Tree Sparrow
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| Tree sparrows |
Tree creeper
Nuthatch
Brambling
Wood warbler
Wood pigeon
Stock dove
Crow
Jackdaw
Buzzard
Swallow
Swift
Pied wagtail
Grey wagtail
Wren
Starling
Collared dove
Jay
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| Jay |
Tawny owl
Barn owl
Heron
Barnacle goose
Curlew
Cuckoo
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| trio of red sqirrels |
We've had an increase in the number of birds and an increase in the wildlife. We do miss the thrushes. The Mistle thrush and Song thrush have not been here in a bit and the lapwing that used to be in the field has not come back.
2 comments:
What has happened to the thrushes? Pesticide in their food? When I was growing up in England, there were lots of thrushes bashing snails on the ground to get at the juicy bits! Clever birds.
Interesting list of birds. I took all my bird feeders down several years ago when the squirrels destroyed them. I finally put up a metal finch feeder last week with a yellow ribbon to attract them, but they haven't shown up yet -- perhaps closer to Spring though we're having fairly warm temps now.
The Mockingbird couple made the across-the-street house with the garden their new primary residence now, but continue to police my yard as their now secondary claim. Wise birds!
The hummingbirds continue to feed on the Bird of Paradise flowers outside my living room window.
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