A bit of migration today but not as much as yesterday. 23/9/13 garden sightings

15:40- 16:15 sightings from garden
Flying over

• Great black backed gull
• 8 common gulls
• 15 black headed gulls
• 5 rooks
• 2 cormorants- 1st of the Autumn flew north together
• 36 SWALLOWS- this means, on average, 1 per minute but they few altogether North after feeding with the house martins over the house.

Trees

• Great tit
• House sparrows

Sightings between 16:30 and 17:00

Trees

• 1 great tit- calling
• 1 blue tit- calling
• 2 robins- caling
• 11 goldfinches together
• 1 blackbird heard
• 3 wood pigeons
• 1 collard dove

Flying over (most migrants)

• 18 rooks- not migrants 23 altogether
• black headed gulls
• Common gulls
• 1 pied wagtails
• 3 goldfinches
• 3 Swallows- 39 altogether in the 65mins
• 5 House martins- feeding together before flying East- 20 altogether in the 65 mins.

Opposite house

• 2 collard doves
• 1 wood pigeon
• 30+ feral pigeons
• 10+ jackdaws