Garden sightings on the 25/11/12

With 28 different species of birds sighted today throughout the rain with a few times the sun came out it was good to hear all of them and to see them. Hopefully a brambling turns up in the holly tree because there is hundreds which winter in Britian each year and it would be a good sight.
  
Tree sightings:

                                                                               Female chaffinch

                                                                     Brambling or chaffinch

                                                                         Adult male blackbird

                                                                            Redwing

                                                                               Female blackbird

                                                                                Redwing

                                                                            Gold crest

                                                                             Redwing

                                                              1st winter male blackbird

                                                                           Redwing

                                                Female chaffinch (Top) and male (Bottom)

                                                                                Blue tit

                                                                                Gold finch

                                                                         Starling

                                                                      Redwing

• 30+ jackdaws
• 2 carrion crows
• 3 magpies
• 20+ chaffinches
• 6 green finches
• 15+ gold finches
• 30+ house sparrrows
• 2 dunnocks
• 1 robin
• 40+ starlings
• 20+ great tits
• 25+ blue tits
• 4 wood pigeons
• 2 collard doves
• 30+ Redwings
• 12+ Blackbirds- 4 adult males, 1 adult females and 7 1st winter males which was a small amount as lots flew in and out of the trees.
• 1 Gold crests
• 1 Blackcap- female

Opposite house

• 20+ ferel pigeons
• 10 wood pigeons
• 3 collard doves
• 1 house sparrow
• 2 male blackbirds
• 30+ jackdaws
• 1 carrion crow
• 30+ starlings

Flying over

                                                            5 of the 8 mallard ducks

                                                           lesser black backed gull

• 30+ starlings
• 30+ jackdaws
• 10 carrion crows
• 10 rooks
• A few house sparrows
• The green finches from the trees and more
• 20+ gold finches
• A few chafinches
• 2 pied wagtials
• 1 lesser black backed gull
• 50+ common gulls
• A few herring gulls
• 15+ black headed gulls
• 40+ redwing
• 20+ fieldfares
• 3 cormarants
• 8 mallard ducks
• 40+ LAPWINGS were flying together in a big flock.

Garden

                                                                         Starlings

                                                                             Jackdaws

                                                                       Starlings

                                                                    Wood pigeon

                                                                          Robin

                                                  4 of the 6 wood pigeons together

                                                       House sparrow and a starling

                                                            The colours of a wood pigeon

                                                   A magpie (front) and jackdaw behind

Wood pigeons

 

Lots of garden sightings today and 7 different types of birds which isn't the highest but the hightest was 8 different species of birds on the 1/5/12.  

• 1 robin
• 10+ jackdaws
• 1 magpie
• 4 starlings
• 1 collard dove
• 6 wood pigeon together- record
• 4 house sparrows

Other non bird news

• 1 unidentified Butterfly species
• 1 Unidentified bee species

Other Rare bird sightings

• Waxwings in several places in Hereford Gloucestershire and Glomorgan
• The Long billed dotwichers still at Slimbridge WWT
• The 1st winter Grey phalarope has been sighted again for its 3rd day
• A ring necked duck has been sighted at Chew Valley Lake (Somerset)
• The Yellow browed warbler has been heard and seen again at Oldbury Power Station