A great start to the year with lots of birds sighted from the garden. 1st- 6th sightings

Lots of birds have been visiting the garden and there have been

• 10+ jackdaws
• 2 ad males and an ad female blackbird
• 3 starlings
• 3 Long tailed tits- 1st ever in the last 2 years
• 2 wood pigeons
• 1 ad male house sparrow
• 1 carrion crow

Although many birds in the garden there has been a sighting on the female sparrowhawk who hunts around here as well as:

• 20+ starlings
• 30+ jackdaws
• 4 carrion crows
• Lots of house sparrows
• 2 collard doves
• Several gulls- most black headed and common but a 3rd year and an adult great black backed gull and occasionally a lesser black backed gulls with some herring gulls.
• 4 magpies
• The occasional chaffinch in the berry bush
• 10+ gold finches
• The same 3 blackbirds as in the garden
• A pair of dunnocks
• A few redwings flying over occasionally
• No fieldfares flying over although they're around the area

Other news

• 1 mute swan became a resident in a nearby flooded field by the castle
• Lots of rarities around the area including a Lesser scaup at Blagdon Lake (somerset)
• More rare bird sightings and Avon area birds at http://avonbirding.blogspot.co.uk/