This is a new experience for me, I don't even keep a written diary. However since moving into a new house at the end of August I've started taking notes of my garden birdwatching/feeding.
Following a run-in with a ladder at the beginning of December I've had to confine my birdwatching to what I can see from the windows, whilst my broken leg heals. Over the Christmas period I had the odd fieldfare in the garden with some redwings visible from the living room window. Not bad for a suburban garden. No sign of them since though.
3 weeks ago builders started working on a new garage and extension for me. Unfortunately the front bird table had to be taken down, and most of the birds from the front garden have been scared off. No sign of the song thrushes since then.
Out the back I have 2 seed feeder, 1 peanut feeder, 1 fat ball feeder, a bird table that I usually only use for scraps and a ground feeding table, which sits on top of a tree stump. The ground feeding table was not popular on the ground. Only once saw some greenfinches and even then the seed was hardly touched. However it has been slightly more popular on the tree stump with greenfinches, robin and blackbirds using it.
In my old house I would have occasionally seen goldfinches, but they have been sadly lacking in the garden here. Friends live about 1/2 a mile further into the houses here and they have them in the garden. About 3 weeks ago I set up a nyger seed feeder, but alas to no avail as yet. I did see a small flock passing between houses across the road on Thursday, but they gave my house a miss. The sun caught the colours of the flock beautifully.
Of the 3 tit species in the garden the coal tit is the most common. Today there were 2 blue tits in together, which doesn't happen that often.
Posted by dawnc at February 21, 2004 06:29 PMDawn, look forward to your updates. Sounds like you have a pretty good garden.
Posted by: pacbell at February 22, 2004 05:38 PM