Local patch

Lostock Park

An afternoon stroll round my local patch after the rain. It's been a very quiet few weeks here and I almost didn't bother but I was getting as stir crazy as the cat so I went for a wander. It turns out it was a good idea: we'd obviously had an influx of passerines with the bad weather:

• Black-headed Gull 7
• Blackbird 18
• Blue Tit 16
• Bullfinch 1
• Carrion Crow 2
• Chaffinch 1
• Collared Dove 1
• Dunnock 1
• Feral Pigeon 4
• Goldcrest 2
• Goldfinch 49
• Great Tit 10
• Greenfinch 3
• Herring Gull 1
• House Sparrow 1
• Jay 1
• Lesser Black-backed Gull 4
• Long-tailed Tit 18
• Magpie 18
• Mistle Thrush 1
• Robin 6
• Starling 11
• Woodpigeon 31
• Wren 6

Interesting that this is the first single-figure count of pigeons this year.