12/10/13 Garden Sightings. INFLUX OF REDWING CONTINUES.

With the redwings still flooding up the river our house got some decent numbers and even to make it more great we had a few fieldfares mixed in as well. They were all flying into the wind and calling a lot o each other.

Trees

• 2 blue tits
• House sparrows
• 2 robins
• A blackbird heard
• 1 wren- new individual
• Collard doves
• Gold finches
• 8 REDWING- (5,3) including a 1st winter individual showing great plumage.

Opposite house

• 1 lesser black backed gull
• 2 pied wagtails
• Feral pigeons
• 30+ starlings
• Collard doves
• Wood pigeons

Flying over (non migrants)

• Corvids- 2 magpies, carrion crows, jackdaws and rooks
• Black headed gulls
• Starlings

Vis Mis flying over (visible migration)

• 20+ gold finches
• 200+ common gulls
• 10+ pied wagtails
• 2 grey wagtails
• 6 meadow pipits
• 591 REDWINGS- 308 sighted in the morning with flocks ranging from 2- 40+ with most of the flocks being large.
• 5 FIELDFARE- 1st of the Autumn with the Redwing flocks.
• A few wood pigeons.