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House sparrow, a first-Winter cock

The foxes had another busy night a-courting so there was no great surprise to find nearly all the local jackdaws sitting in the sycamore trees on the railway embankment to see if there was any pickings as the dog fox trotted down the line back to its lair.

I've had to refill the sunflower seed feeders again today, the sparrows, titmice and goldfinches have been giving them a lot of hammer. It took a while but I managed to establish that two goldcrests were visiting the garden, a male and a female. The male is the one I generally see coming into the garden, I've spotted the female on the sycamores a few times in the past, today she was feeding on the cherry tree.

• Black-headed Gull 8 overhead
• Blackbird 2
• Blue Tit 3
• Carrion Crow 1
• Coal Tit 1
• Collared Dove 2
• Dunnock 2
• Feral Pigeon 1
• Goldcrest 2
• Goldfinch 7
• Great Tit 2
• Herring Gull 1 overhead
• House Sparrow 18
• Jackdaw 15
• Long-tailed Tit 6
• Magpie 1
• Robin 1
• Rook 1
• Starling 8
• Woodpigeon 1

Over on the school field the large gulls were a first-Winter lesser black-back and ten herring gulls: one adult, five first-Winters, two second-Winters and two third-Winter birds.