Garden Bird list August 31st, best for a while.

Had a good day in the garden today, it was sunny but very very windy here in Edinburgh and a lot worse tonight, just in from being out with the dog.  Due to the wind it wasn’t a day for sitting in the garden, instead I stayed busy dead heading a buddleia in the hope it’d extend the flowering season and making an insect house out of some off cuts of wood and a lot of prunings from plants around the garden.  With the strong winds insects must’ve been getting blown all over the place as the feeders were busy, also wondering if my winter birds are back as this was the first blackbird I’d seen in over 3 weeks!

  1. Blackbird x 1
  2. Blue Tit x 1
  3. Carrion crow x 1
  4. Coal Tit x 1
  5. Dunnock x 4
  6. Great Tit x 1
  7. Greenfinch x 1
  8. Magpie x 2
  9. Woodpigeon x 1

Good garden list, and the skies above for 5th of August 2013

I had a great list for today, very impressed, I still got a lot of work on the websites done, including the UK finance updates and a put a few new calculators on the aussie site -now closed- , The Starlings are doing great displays at dusk with more than 30 birds in the sunset.  Here’s my list:

  1. Blackbird x 2
  2. Black-headed Gull x 1
  3. Blue Tit x 3
  4. Dunnock x 1
  5. Great Tit x 1
  6. Greenfinch x 2
  7. House Sparrow x 1
  8. Magpie x 1
  9. Robin x 1 – first in a while!
  10. Starlings x 30+
  11. Swifts x – a few about today
  12. Swallows x 8
  13. Woodpigeon x 2

Garden Bird list for 4th of August 2013, thought I wasn’t going to see a Dunnock

For a long time today I didn’t see a single Dunnock and I was surprised, then one turned up at the same time as house sparrow, also had a common buzzard high overhead, wish I could get better at telling my gulls from the ground!

  1. Blue Tit x 1
  2. Carrion crow x 5 fly over
  3. Common Buzzard x 1 once again getting mobbed by gulls, not sure on the sorts of gulls.
  4. Dunnock x 1
  5. Greenfinch x 2
  6. House Sparrow x 1
  7. Jackdaw x 1
  8. Magpie x 1
  9. Swifts x a fair few flying over, maybe 15 to 20.
  10. Swallows x 1 flying quite low to the ground
  11. Woodpigeon x 2

Garden bird list for Saturday 3rd of August

I was a little busy being stuck inside all day trying to get this page to work: -site now closed- it displays term deposit interest rates for Australian banks and building societies, no matter what I did I couldn’t get it to work with better styles of graphics, currently it’s in a very bare bones display but gives all the correct information.  My garden bird list is therefore a bit limited:

  1. Dunnock x 2
  2. Greenfinch x 1
  3. Jackdaw x 2
  4. Woodpigeon x 2