Black-tailed godwits, Leighton Moss

Sunday, 14 February 2021

Dreich

Cool, wet, very windy and very grey weather made for another quiet day's garden birdwatching (and another day's really can't be bothered going for a walk). The birds were out there — I could see the food going down in the feeders — but they were keeping well under cover except for sorties to the feeders lasting barely a minute a go. I nipped out to refill the sunflower seed feeders and had cause to ask the long-tailed tits to stop picking on the blue tits.

  • Black-headed Gull 3 overhead
  • Blackbird 2
  • Blue Tit 2
  • Collared Dove 1
  • House Sparrow 17
  • Long-tailed Tit 2
  • Robin 2
  • Song Thrush 1
  • Starling 4
  • Woodpigeon 1

The black-headed gulls were back on the school playing field, together with a heap of jackdaws. The woodpigeon numbers are picking back up again, which I'm taking to be a sign of Spring.

  • Black-headed Gull 30
  • Common Gull 7
  • Feral Pigeon 2
  • Herring Gull 1 adult
  • Jackdaw 33
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull 3: 2 adult, 1 1st-Winter
  • Rook 11
  • Woodpigeon 15

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