Welcome to 2021! After breaking my vertebrae and rupturing a few disks again in 2021 my list will once again be from my Edinburgh garden. The garden gets most of the common garden birds in Scotland and occasionally a great tick such as a Redpoll or a Redstart as in previous years. Winter brings in some fantastic birds to watch and listen to, such as Redwing and Fieldfare – just had both of these in the garden at 1pm on New Years day, didn’t see either in 2020.
This year I have started using Garden Birds* food due to the great price and excellent service, the most popular in my garden is the basic: Ultiva® Everyday Seed Mix*. It’s very popular with almost every bird that visits the garden especially the house sparrows.
I am struggling to stand on most days due to nerves in my back stopping my legs from working due to Generalised Dystonia and the broken vertebrae. It looks like it will be a small list this year.
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2021 Edinburgh Garden Bird List:
- Blackbird – Jan 1st
- Black-headed Gull – July 21st – FO – Flying ant day.
- Blue Tit – Jan 1st
- Bullfinch – Jan 9th
- Carrion Crow – Jan 1st
- Chiffchaff – July 14th
- Coal Tit – Jan 5th
- Collared Dove – Unsure on date, honestly thought I’d added it before.
- Common Buzzard – March 1st – FO
- Dunnock – Jan 1st
- Fieldfare – Jan 1st
- Garden Warbler – April 4th
- Goldfinch – June 30th
- Great Tit – Jan 2nd
- Greenfich – July 2nd
- Grey Heron – Jan 15th – FO
- House Sparrow – Jan 1st
- Jackdaw – Jan 22nd
- Long-tailed Tits – March 5th
- Magpie – Jan 1st
- Oystercatcher – June 22nd – FO
- Redwing – Jan 1st
- Robin – Jan 2nd
- Rook – Feb 11th – FO
- Siskin – April 19th
- Song Thrush – Feb 13th
- Sparrowhawk – Unsure on date, honestly thought I’d added it before.
- Starling – May 29th – FO
- Stock Dove – Jan 2nd
- Swift – May 29th – FO
- Woodpigeon – Jan 1st – First bird of the year
- Wren – Feb 14th
- 9 Species as of January 1st.
- 12 Species as of January 2nd.
- 13 Species as of January 5th.
- 14 Species as of January 9th.
- 15 Species as of January 15th.
- 16 Species as of January 22nd.
- 17 Species as of February 11th.
- 18 Species as of February 13th.
- 19 Species as of February 14th.
- 20 Species as of March 1st
- 21 Species as of March 5th
- 22 Species as of April 4th
- 23 Species as of April 18th
- 25 Species as of May 29th
- 26 Species as of June 22nd
- 27 Species as of June 30th
- 28 Species as of July 2nd
- 29 Species as of July 14th
- 30 Species as of July 21st
- 32 Species as of end of year.
2021 RSPB Garden Bird List:
- Blackbird – 3
- Blue Tit – 2
- Carrion Crow – 3
- Coal Tit – 1
- Dunnock – 4
- Fieldfare – 1
- House Sparrow – 50+
- Magpie – 3
- Robin – 1
- Woodpigeon – 3
