Garden Birdwatch. Rspb.

[melv16]

Have you done yours yet?
Have anything unusual turn up?

[Togo]

Hi Melv.....was just going to put up a thread on this very subject. Ready to do ours tomorrow before we go out for a bit of lunch. Been keeping my eye on visitors for afew weeks now and notice that Goldfinches are becoming quite common but this morning we had a Blackcap visit the feeder. I know that they are not uncommon but I cannot recall the last time that we had this particular visitor.

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

[Chipchopper]

Thanks for the reminder + the link.
I'm planning in doing it on Sunday

[sherrardk]

It’s so misty and damp here that there’s no birds about, will see if it picks up tomorrow.

[melv16]

I got the usual finches and tits. A nice surprise was a tree creeper and 4 house sparrows showing some interest in the box I put up some 5yrs ago.

[Prudie]

Also planning on tomorrow as the weather is meant to be brighter. I had a pair of Blackcaps in my crab apple last weekend and a fieldfare quite often recently but normally I just get sparrows, starlings, blackbirds, great, blue and longtail tits, the resident robin and wren.
Last week I had a song thrush eating berries - unbelievably the first I'd seen in probably a year.

[choux]

Nothing unusual, as yet, a pair of wagtails (they only visit in very cold weather), pheasants, a juvenile sparrowhawk, 13 collared doves in one visit, 7 wood pigeons in a single visit, 8 blackbirds, plus very common visitors: robins, bull finches, gold finches, green finches, wren, coal tits, long tailed tits, blue tits, nuthatches, starlings, dunnocks, house sparrows. We too had a thrush 2 days ago but no sighting this weekend yet. No sign of any woodpecker in just over 2 weeks.

All the bird feeders and bird baths are full so fingers crossed.

There seem to be fewer birds specified on the RSPB survey this year?

[TonyV]

doing mine tomorrow.

[Tilly2]

I can't do mine yet as we have scaffolding up at the back of the house and I can't see the garden properly. Hopefully, the scaffolding will come down before the week is up.

[melv16]

I forgot to mention a nuthatch which seems to have very pale head and back plumage.

[Togo]

I though that you were more intrepid than that Tills. You should be sitting on the scaffold with thermals and a balaclava on, a hip flask, and a deckchair and blanket.

[Togo]

Nuthatch is fairly regular for us Melv but I don' see much of the Tree Creeper these days. It doesn't of course visit the feeder but is usually up and down the trunks of the trees.

[melv16]

All your lists are quite impressive. In really bad winters I get redpolls, siskins, willow tits, bramblings and great spotted woodpeckers.