Garden sightings through the week

Roughly 4-5 weeks until we see our first swallow and another few until our house martins and swifts arrive. I think that we may possibly see an alpine swift or possibly get a wheatear in the garden or on the roof. 

Flying over

• 2 Mute swans
• 5 cormorants (1 juv, 3 in non- breeding plumage as well as an adult in breeding plumage with a whitish head)
• Corvids

Trees

• Usual birds including: 3 blackbirds.
• 20+ house sparrows.
• Corvids.
• 10 starlings.
•  2 robins
• Chaffinches and gold finches
• A small finch (roughly the size of a blue tit) was in the tree. Possibly a siskin or lesser redpoll.
• Blue tits
• A male great tit who calls most mornings.
• Wood pigeons and the collard doves.

Garden

• 1 female blackbird

Opposite house

• 1 black headed gull
• The corvids
• 20+ feral pigeons.