My Garden 2019

Hey there.. good to see that you're enjoying having the Bramblings around, lucky fella..enjoy.

Best Wishes,

Stewart.

Feb 19th: Brambling - 1f + 14 species.
Feb 2oth: Brambling - 2f + enjoyed watching Wren getting insects out pond and a visit from 6 Common Gull plus all the other regulars.
Feb 21st: Brambling - 2f 1m enjoyed watching antics of a Magpie and a Feral Pigeon re a fat ball, thought the magpie would win but alas not.
Feb 22nd: Brambling - 1m which has nearly got its full black cap 1f , Dunnocks and House Sparrows displaying.
Feb 23rd: Brambling - 1m 2f plus all the regulars.

Really enjoyed watching far longer than usual and taking lots of pics and a few videos of the Bramblings, can't believe how lucky I am to have them such a long time, now 24 days! Getting upwards of one hundred and sometimes more birds in brill!

Regards

John

Feb 11th: LT Tit - 2, Brambling - 1m 2f plus usual gang.
Feb 12th: Brambling - 2f, Sprawk over plus 15 other species.
Feb 13th: Brambling - 1f, Coal Tit, LT Tit - 2 plus above.
Feb 14th: Brambling - 1f and Buzzard low over.
Feb 15th: Brambling - 2f.
Feb 16th: Brambling - 1f.
Feb 17th: Brambling -1m 1f
Feb 18th: Brambling - 1f and a male Siskin (pics and video) plus 15 other species.

Cheers

John

Bramblings been here every day since I first reported it, that's now eleven days, well chuffed! All other birds still here. Today had male Sprawk land in conifer and scattered everything. Saw a Long-tailed Tit in both gardens, probably doing a recce.

Short reports till I find out what the time limit is for writing.
Regards
John

Feb 1st:
Had a female Brambling and got pics/video, it seems to like eating the sunflower seeds on one of the fence posts in driveway which is handy for me. Also had 41 House Sparrows of which 17 were in one of the hawthorn trees, I've renamed it Sparrow tree lol. Other sightings Chaffs - 4, Magpie - 2, Crow, Dunnock, Blackbird - 5, C Dove - 2, Goldfinch - 2, Starling - 30 and a Robin.

Feb 2nd: Had female Brambling again and took more pics/video. Chaffs - 12, Greenfinch - 9, Robin, Blue & Great Tit two of each, same numbers of above birds again today.

Feb 3rd: Female Brambling brought company, another female and a male (more pics), Robin, Blue Tit - 3, Great Tit - 2, Dunnock, Blackbird - 5, Chaffs - 24, Goldfinch - 2, House Spugs - 36, Doves & W Pigs - 2 of each, Sprawk over and Coal Tit.

Feb 4th: Same three Brambling again, Wren, W Pigeon - 5, Feral Pigeon - 2, C Dove - 2, Blackbird - 5, Chaffs - 15, Jackdaw, Common Gull - 3, Dunnock, Goldfinch - 7, House Spugs - c25, Starling - 30.

Well chuffed to say the least!

Regards

John

Good to be back!

Last day of January was bitterly cold so put lots of seed on the back/front garden not really expecting anything different but knew the numbers would increase, blimey got two shocks while watching from kitchen! It was just after midday when I noticed far more Chaffinches than usual, normally get half a dozen but today best part of two dozen and two of them looked a bit different, they were at far end for a start where the longer grass is, thankfully they came to the seed nearer house and wow it was two female Brambling (got some pics) they stayed till dusk with the rest of their chums, that made my year! Last Brambling to visit was a pair about five plus years ago.

Then spotted something different among the three dozen House Sparrows, blimey it was two Tree Sparrows wowee, they were having a pop at the Starlings on the nut feeders and of course losing but they stayed best part of thirty mins and did manage a couple of pics just for the record. Must be twenty year since I got one. I kept pinching myself because I couldn't believe I'd had these two species, Brilliant start to the year.

Also seen was two Great Tit, two Blue Tit, five Blackbird, two Wood Pigeon, two Collared Dove, five Greenfinch, two Goldfinch, four Starling, two Dunnock and five Feral Pigeon.

Regards

John