December Sightings

Happy New Year to everyone

December was quite a good month for birds from the garden, although the weather was sometimes horrible, we had a total of 27 species.

1. Collard dove
2. Wood pigeon
3. Feral pigeon
4. House sparrow
5. Dunnock
6. Blue tit
7. Great tit
8. Blackbird
9. Fieldfare
10. Redwing
11. Robin
12. Goldfinch
13. Chaffinch
14. Jackdaw
15. Carrion crow
16. Magpie
17. Cormorant- Had 10 fly over together on the 24th which is a new record
18. Lesser black backed gull
19. Herring gull
20. Black headed gull
21. Common gull
22. Mallard ducks
23. Great spotted woodpecker
24. Peregrine- female either chased another peregrine or some prey on the 21st
25. Buzzard
26. Sparrowhawk
27. GOLDEN PLOVER- 3 flew north together on the 28th.