House sparrow most common Lincolnshire garden bird

THE house sparrow is the most abundant visitor to Lincolnshire gardens.

That's according to data from the RSPB Garden Birdwatch count which was carried out over the weekend January 25-27 this year.

The blackbird,in third place, was seen in more gardens (90.3 per cent) than the house sparrow (76.3 per cent) but in fewer numbers.

At the corresponding period last year, the brambling was conspicuous in many county gardens, but this year none appears to have been recorded over that particular weekend.

The RSPB's 2020 Lincolnshire Top Twenty, in order of abundance, is as follows:

1.
House sparrow
2.
Starling
3
Blackbird
4
Woodpigeon
5
Blue tit
6
Goldfinch
7
Collared dove
8
Great tit
9
Feral pigeon
10
Robin
11
Long-tailed tit
12
Chaffinch
13
Dunnock
14
Magpie
15
Coal Tit
16
Carion Crow
17
Greenfinch
18
Wren
19
Jackdaw
20
Tree sparrow

The song thrush, incidentally, was 21st