Dunnock in full song this morning on the top of the front garden hedge. Blackbirds spotted flying in and out yesterday as well by a sharp eyed Oli. In the back garden today, the usual selection of finches, including three male and two female and numerous chaffinches including a stricking partial albino female. She was showing normal body colouring but white either side of her head.
Long-tailed tit on favourite bird cake yesterday
Just finished our annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. Sixteen species in total over the hour, of which blackbird was the most numerous, followed by greenfinches and goldfinches. Had great spotted woodpecker too, down on the birdcake at the back of the garden, and a single song thrush. Our now residemt team of blackcaps performed well, two males and one female, as did the bullfinches. But no fieldfares, despite there being two in the garden yesterday. And no great tits either, but thats the chance element to randomly picking an hour to watch the feeders.
We’d been missing seeing this little chap visiting the garden this season, and today Blackcap has returned.
A first for our garden today. No doubt encouraged by the cold!
Fieldfare in garden today, happily feeding on apples
The snow has reached Devon, and with it bringing some new visitors to the garden. It’s been busy with our regulars coming daily and the recent snowfall has brought in a few more Bullfinches, the Woodpecker has returned, and also 3 Fieldfare joined us yesterday. Last year we had a Fieldfare sat in a tree at the back of the garden when it snowed, but this year, the 3 Fieldfares have been in the garden eating the apples that we put down in addition to the gound food mixture of fruit and fat for the ground feeding birds as well as a variety of hanging seed and fat feeders across the garden.
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