Garden sighting highlights: Goldcrest, thrushes and a garden first...

Saturday 16th

Tree

• 1 Goldcrest- 1st of Autumn
• 3 blackbirds- Normal adult male and female plus a new 1st winter individual which only stayed for a few minutes.

Flying over

• 100+  Fieldfare/redwing
• 50+ wood pigeons- notable increase of these birds with several hundreds in the large flocks.

Sunday 17th

Trees

• 3+ redwing
• 5 fieldfares
• Goldfinches
• House sparrows

Flying over

• Meadow pipit
• 50+ redwing/fieldfare
• 2 LESSER REDPOLL flew over north calling and this is the first record of this species over the garden as well as a first for me.