Magpies!

Pete Locking wrote: That’s an impressive list Nick, what’s your garden total for this year?
We are on 50 at the moment in our garden in North Somercotes

To be honest we don't count, but specifically in the garden so far:
Blue tits
Great tits
LT tits
Greenfinch
Bullfinch
Spadgers
Goldfinches
Brambling
Linnets
Redpolls
Pied wags
Grey Wag
Starling
Blackbird
Song thrush
Fieldfare
Redwing
Carrion
Rook
Magpie
Kestrel
Tawny (shadows on roof aerials)
Sparrowhawk (took spadger from bushes and mantled over it near kitchen window giving us a fantastic view)
Wrens
Goldcrests
Robins

Considering we are in a very built up area we are quite happy with this array. We also have a resident squirrel, lots of mice, hedgehogs occasionally wander in and also a good amount of bats (of the pipistrelle family)

That’s an impressive list Nick, what’s your garden total for this year?
We are on 50 at the moment in our garden in North Somercotes

Chris Grimshaw wrote: Impressive - what town or village do you live in so we have a location

I am bang on the Grimsby/Cleethorpes border at Carr Lane, and this is Havelock school fields. Two sides are bordered with a large area of allotments. It is a great spot and right outside my window. We see lots of species winter and summer. Carrion/Rook/Jackdaw, Wood/Feral pigeons, Stock dove, cuckoo, Curlew (47 at one time!), Whimbrel, oystercatchers, all the usual gulls, swallows/swifts/martins, sparrowhawks frequently take prey off the field, tawny owls can be heard calling at night, kestrel, buzzards have soared over it, linnets, goldies. Most of the gardens are full of all the finches and tits, sparrows seem to have increased. We've had brambling, redpolls and one winchat. Redwings and fieldfares, song thrushes, blackbirds and many pied wagtails with the occasional grey. It is a little bit of paradise amongst the urban sprawl.

Impressive - what town or village do you live in so we have a location

So, the football season has started....and its obvious the magpies behind my house are keen to get their games started too!