An imprssive 36 species of birds today- 5/10/13 garden sightings including REDWING.

A very productive day for birds with an amazing 36 species sighted. Best time was in the morning but then in the afternoon a few more species were sighted.


Opposite house

• Feral pigeons
• Corvids
• Starlings
• Wood pigeons
• Collard doves

Trees

• Blue tit
• 2 robins
• 10+ house sparrows
• 10+ rooks
• 10+ jackdaws
• Carrion crow
• 11 gold finches
• 2 male chaffinches
• Male and female blackbird

Flying over

• 7 gold finches
• 30+ common gulls
• 30+ black headed gulls
• 5+ lesser black backed gulls
• 10+ herring gulls
• 20+ starlings
• 1 great spotted woodpecker
• 1 grey heron
• 1 raven
• 1 buzzard
• 1 sparrowhawk
• 10+ wood pigeons
• 8 pied wagtails (2,4,1,1)
• 1 cormorant
• 1 mistle thrush
• 13+ grey wagtail (2,1,10+) Unusually high amounts of grey wagtails all flying over and calling together.
• 2 skylarks- flew in together but 1 was getting frantically mobbed by a pied wagtail before flying north.
• 17+ meadow pipits flying over in twos but so many and at a range of heights.
• 20+ swallows- Flew very quickly over in the afternoon with the house martins.
• 10+ house martins- Flew very quickly over with the swallows but strange as they all came over in about two minutes and were only sighted in the afternoon and none in the morning.
• 2 linnets- (1,1)
• 1 REDWING- 1st of Autumn flew very quickly North East

Unidentified birds

• 1 small thrush species either a REDWING or SONG THRUSH. Most likely redwing which is very good.
• 2 birds flying like great spotted woodpeckers but looked liked mistle thrushes.
• An unidentified pipit or lark. Looked a lot like a TREE PIPIT but not sure as it didn't call.