Many birders and others think of the sound the Cukoo makes as the first sign of spring in the UK, for me it has to be the lawnmower and today a very very sunny day in Edinburgh, in fact t-shirt weather, the suburban streets rang with the sounds of people desperate to remove that 1mm of extra grass that has grown since the final cut in October/November last year. August for my back garden as I wanted places for insects to hide over winter and when snow lay on the lawn, it looked like an icy tundra, there’s a photo of the ice crystals below my garden bird list today. It’ll be a few more weeks before my back garden gets mown.
Today’s bird list includes what I’m pretty sure is a new bird for the year, the common buzzard, it wasn’t in my garden but soaring high above, here’s the list for today:
- Blackbird x 1
- Blue Tit x 1
- Carrion crow x 1 – looked to have pale wings.
- Common Buzzard x 1
- Dunnock x 3
- House Sparrow x 2
- Magpie x 5
- Woodpigeon x 3
