A bad night's sleep (combination of sore arm from yesterday's booster jab and a cat that can't take a hint) had me wasting what's probably going to be the only decent day's weather of the week. Both the spadgers and the starlings arrived in numbers to finish off the last of the bird food (ironically, the only rain of the day was when I nipped out to restock).
Over the past couple of days a few goldfinches have been coming in for the sunflower seeds when the spadgers have been busy elsewhere, just the one in today and he didn't get much of a look-in at the feeders. I've only been having the male coal tit in lately. I may just have been missing his mate, coal tits do tend to grab and run rather than linger out in the open like the great tits and blue tits.
- Black-headed Gull 3 overhead
- Blackbird 2
- Blue Tit 3
- Coal Tit 1
- Collared Dove 1
- Goldfinch 1
- Great Tit 2
- House Sparrow 32
- Long-tailed Tit 1
- Magpie 2
- Robin 1
- Rook 2
- Starling 33
- Woodpigeon 1
I wondered why there was just one long-tailed tit in the garden when I was putting some rubbish in the bin. It turns out I'd missed a family passing through, it flew over the road and joined a mixed tit flock feeding in the tree with the magpies' nest.
The quieter conditions today were reflected by the gull tally on the school playing field: just the usual black-headed gulls, a common gull and a couple of adult herring gulls.
- Black-headed Gull 25
- Blue Tit 2
- Common Gull 1
- Herring Gull 2
- Jackdaw 11
- Long-tailed Tit 8
- Magpie 3
- Rook 4
- Woodpigeon 5
I nipped over to Urmston for bird food. While I was waiting for the train at Humphrey Park there was a steady stream of gulls flying overhead to roost at Salford Quays. And it was nice to share the platform with a couple of goldcrests that were fussing round in one of the sycamores.
- Black-headed Gull 13 overhead
- Goldcrest 2
- House Sparrow 14
- Jackdaw 5
- Lesser Black-backed Gull 5 overhead
- Magpie 3
- Robin 2
- Starling 2
- Woodpigeon 1
No comments:
Post a Comment