Rob Garden Bird Watch

[melv16]

Put your results on this thread, please.

[melv16]

Rspb! 'king auto correct:-)

[woofgang]

why?

[melv16]

Comparing notes, woof.

[Tuvok]

Sparrows, doves, wood pigeon, starlings, blackys, coal tit, 1 robin - just my everyday visitors!

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you not need to say how many of each you seen?

[melv16]

Yes, when you send the report in to the rspb.

[Maydup]

18 Sparrows
5 Blackbirds
4 Wood Pigeons
1 Robin
5 Great Tits
2 Blue Tits
1 Chaffinch

I might check again tomorrow and decide then which of the two sets of results to send in.

[Prudie]

The website seems a bit blocked up at the moment so will ty to submit later but apart from the usual house sparrows, starlings, blackbirds, robin, wren, great tits, woodpigeons, magpie and collared doves the only slightly unusual is a male blackcap which I've seen regularly in my garden last 3 weeks.
Other things I see all the time but didn't appear in the hour are blue and long-tailed tits, dunnock, goldfinches, chaffinches and lately a fieldfare.
It hasn't helped that the weather has been dark and often rainy all weekend.

[melv16]

18 goldfinch
1 great tit
4 bluetit
1bullfinch
1 dunnock
4blackbird
2 greenfinch
4 magpie
2 wood pigeon
1 nuthatch
1 blackcap
1 coaltit
1 house sparrow
1 robin
2 chaffinch

[Maydup]

How lovely to have so many finches Melv. Do you have something that attracts them?

[melv16]

The garden backs onto allotments, which in turn backs onto a park. In the bad winters about 10yrs ago I had over 50 gold finches and 16 bull finches in the trees. Redpolls and reed buntings paid a visit also.

[Togo]

Righto, this is the list I have submitted from our back garden in N.Wales. Observed between 13.30 and 14.30. The numbers in total would be perhaps 20 more than this, as where I have sighted 1 or 2 in reality I have seen maybe a dozen of the species. Sadly our sometimes visitors, Heron, Tawny Owl, Tree Creeper, Sparrow hawk, Collared Dove, Hedge Sparrow, or Mistle Thrush. The Thrushes have likely headed South as it is very cold up here right now. Gladly neither did the Feral pigeons, Common Gulls, Ravens, or Crows. The web site is mad busy at the mo and I had trouble getting sorted with a very well speced desktop and very good wifi. I would think it impossible with a laptop or tablet at the mo.

Blackbird X 6
Blue Tit X 3
Chaffinch X 3
Coal Tit X 3
Dunnock X 2
Goldfinch X 5
Great Tit X 4
Long Tailed Tit X 7
Magpie X 2
Robin X 2
Woodpigeon X 1
Siskin X 2
Nuthatch X 2

[Togo]

I had meant to post the link that is needed to submit results. You have to jump through the hoops on the RSPB site otherwise.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/submit-results/

[Prudie]

I've been trying to submit since fairly early this morning and still can't. I'm going to leave it a few days, I think you have until Feb 19th.

[Togo]

You have until the 15th Feb Prudie. I posted the results and details, and got the message that indicated "computer says noo", left it and after about 3 minutes got the successful message.

[rowanwitch]

Blue tit x4
Great tit x2
Long tailed tits x 15
Blackbirds x 2

Feral pigeons x 25
Woodpigeon x 3
Black headed gull x20 ish
Herring gull x 5
Lesser black backed gull 1
Magpie x 6
Carrion crow. X 7
Jay x1
Collared dove x2
Robin 1
House sparrows 20+
Goldfinches x 3
Wren 1
Sparrowhawk 1 (it went quiet after she arrived) I can take a blue tit off my total

I did include the small area of green space I can see from my balcony where I have put some ground food and fat balls. The sparrowhawk has a plucking place in a small tree in our car park.

Not included in GGB but in the hour had fly overs from mallard, cormorants, Canada geese, and two buzzards.

[melv16]

Some interesting lists on this thread. However, where have all the starlings and wrens disappeared to? I've never had a starling in the garden and I haven't seen a wren for months- they're supposed to be the UK's most widespread bird.

[shoota]

I havn't done this, but just for interest; I had a mini flock of ring necked parakeets attempting to nibble my nuts and a fly over from a red kite.

[Chipchopper]

It started off busy around the feeder, then went very quiet at times, bird of prey suspected.
here's what I saw.

magpie x 2
long-tailed tit x 8
blue tit x 5
coal tit x 2
wood pigeon x 2
robin x 1
greater spotted woodpecker x 1
4 ring neck parakeets flew over the garden. (the only aliens noted)

[melv16]

I had a goldcrest make a visit this morning.