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