Recent garden sightings 22/2/14- 28/2/14

Not that many birds being sighted but a lot of migration happening all around us and spring coming ever closer as the mornings are lighter and song birds are in full song

• 1 Shelduck flew over- 22th
• Robin, wren and blackbird all singing on the 25th at 6:35
• Blackbird singing at 6:15 on the 26th
• AURORA (Northern lights) sighted from my bedroom window on the 27th. Very rare for them to be seen this far south but my first ever sighting.
• 1 green finch flew over calling on the 27th (First confirmed Feb sighting)
• Blackbird singing at 6:15 on the 27th.

Some of my sightings in the area

• Raven being mobbed by Carrion crows at Newtown (Sharpness) on the 27th
• 5 redwing sighted near Bushy Grove on the 27th
• Shelduck in Castle field on the 27th
• 2 grey herons in a flooded field on the 27th
• 2 shelducks sighted in the castle field on the 28th