Mini Migration of Skylarks today flying over the garden. Sightings for the 26/1/13

Trees

• 12 starlings
• 1 robin
• 1 dunnock
• 30+ house sparrows
• 2 ad female and an ad male blackbird
• 2 great tits
• 2 blue tits
• A few jackdaws
• 2 collard doves
• 1 wood pigeon
• 12 chaffinches
• 7 gold finches
• 1 magpie

Garden

• 1 ad female and 1 ad male blackbird
• 3 jackdaws
• 1 great tit

Flying over

• 15+ skylarks flying north. Last friday when there was snow the skylarks were in the flocks of redwing flying south but as the snow has thawed throughout the week and it was a sunny day they've been flying back to their fields.
• 20+ black headed gulls
• 2 common gulls
• A few juv herring gulls
• 2 ad great black backed gulls
• Corvids

Other news

• 1 grey heron in the flooded field feeding by Berkeley Castle
• 3 fieldfare with 1 with a white collar, which i photographed as well as 2 black headed gulls, 1 skylark, 7 starlings and a mistle thrush all feeding on the football fiels