The Autumnal weather of the past couple of weeks continued into this and I decided to stay home and listen to the cricket. A wise move: I popped out to renew my monthly travel card and by the time I got into Manchester it was raining biblically, I would have had a grim time of it had I gone along with either of today's plans.
As if to confirm the change of season the first common gull of Winter joined the black-headed gulls as they danced for worms on the school playing field.
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| Blackberries, Humphrey Park Station |
It was hard to tell how many sparrows there were in the back garden today, at times it was impossible to know whether the rose branches were shaken by birds or rain. I suspect there were more than a couple of dozen toing and fro-ing between the main feeding station and the railway embankment. The blue tits and great tits busied themselves on the sunflower seed feeder by the washhouse. Despite a rowan tree chock full of ripe berries it's desperately difficult to find any blackbirds at the moment, a testament to an excellent railway blackberry season.
- Blackbird 1
- Blue tit 3
- Collared dove 1
- Goldfinch 1
- Great tit 1
- House sparrow 15
- Jackdaw 1
- Magpie 2
- Woodpigeon 1
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