Garden birds sighted throughout the week

Not alot of sightings over the past week exept from starlings, jackdaws and the robin who sings every morning. On the 13/1/13 there was some amazing sightings of birds in the garden and at the end of the day i had seen 6 different species of birds which is the highest of the year so far. Also on the 13th there was a big increase of birds probably because it was very sunny and from 18:00 we are hoping for snow as they say we may have it from 18:00 to 3:00 tomorrow morning. Todays birds sighted in the garden were:

• 7 blackbirds (4 adult males and 3 adult females)- including a very territorial male blackbird who scared the other blackbirds when they tried to get the food. "Whitey" an adult female blackbird who is a resident around here and she bred last year. She has a yellow bill and a white chest. On the other hand "Whiteless" a wintering female blackbird with no white on the chest but has a black bill. The last female blackbird which I named was "Bird poo" a winter migrant with white on her tail and bits of white on her back but is very like whiteless because of the black bill. All the males and females visted the garden for most of the morning when we had at least 10 adult males and the 3 adult females in the area.

• 3 great tits- 1 pair which were fighting against a blue tit for a bird box in another garden and fed from my bird table and nut feeder.

• 7 house sparrows were feeding together either on the fat ball feeder or on the bird table.

• 1 Wren which is a first was feeding for half an hour in the garden next door and only spent a minute in ours before flying of into the Apple tree
• 5 jackdaws didn't visit the table today but spent the morning drinking out of a pipe with water in while the frost was melting.

• 6 starling were feeding on the fat balls all morning.

Other bird sightings

• a very low flying buzzard scared the starlings, ferel pigeons aswell as the house sparrows but then got mobbed by a few jackdaws.
• 8 black headed gulls flew over
• 1 common gull flew over
• 10+ chaffinches in the trees
• 13 blackbirds- 10 adult males and the 3 adult females
• 10 blue tits
• 40+ house sparrows
• Several jackdaws, 3 carrion crows and a magpie were all in the trees
• 2 wood pigeons
• 2 collard doves
• 1 wren
• 1 robin
• 20+ starlings
• 1 dunnock

Other news

• A Green winged teal at Slimbridge WWT as well as the bittern