Greenfinch – Page 2 – What Birds I Spotted Today

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!

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

Dunnock x 2
Greenfinch x 1
Jackdaw x 2
Woodpigeon x 2

New nest in the garden, already with young in it!

Not a bad day here in Edinburgh beautiful and sunny and decent list for the garden, found a new bird nest!

Blackbird x 2
Blue Tit x 1 – going into the nestbox, there’s still hope there’s something in there.
Carrion crow x 2 Flyovers
Coal Tit x 1
Collared Dove x 1
Dunnock x 5 – most I’ve seen at once, I also found a nest and a rejected egg, the egg was a bit away from the nest and sitting in a bush, I was surprsied to see something so bright blue amongst the green. Guess the poor little guy just didn’t survive, it did get very cold yesterday.
Great Tit x 1 – first I’ve seen in the garden for a bit.
Greenfinch x 1
House Sparrow x 1 – also first I’ve seen in a long time in the garden.
Magpie x 1
Starlings x 1 – flyover
Woodpigeon x 2

Below are comments that got lost when the website went down.

Wes Donze said on May 25, 2013

good selection – nice to see 5 Dunnock – shame about the egg – could be the parent rejected it
Hope the Blue tit nests in the box – ned to get new boxes up for next year myself

It was very quiet in the garden today, I gather bad weather put the birds off again!

Today was looking pretty dire, almost nothing then Greenfinches, Blue Tit and a Magpie saved it! I’d been outside a bit even though it’s been raining heavily and yet there were very few birds in the garden, on my final outing to check the feeders, down to just a few fat balls, coconuts and 1 seed feeder due to birds not taking a lot at present and some of the seed in the feeder started to sprout in the feeder so cut back on what I’m putting out. The fat is still popular though! I am hoping that it’s more the fact the birds are in nest and on eggs that they’re not out as much. I hope to hear a dawn chorus next week if I can manage getting up into the woods in the dim light. Seems weird thinking “if I can get into woods in dim light” I used to do half my hiking in those conditions for landscape photography! Enough rambling onto the bird list:

Blue Tit x 1
Dunnock x 3
Greenfinch x 2
Magpie x 1
Woodpigeon x 1

Back at home watching my garden birds.

It is nice to be back to see the changes that have occurred in just one week of being away, shocked by the amount of Daffodils in my garden, which can be great for attracting finches and I encourage to grow in the right spots in the garden.
This is the first spring I’ve been in the garden and I’m impressed by what’s coming up so far. As for the birds, not a great deal around, I did see 2 Coal Tits mating, but not sure if the blue tit has continued with the nest at the end of the garden, didn’t see any activity about it at all today. However that was the same last year in the previous garden, frantic activity for about 4 to 5 days, then nothing for almost 2 weeks, time to sit on eggs maybe? Then frantic activity for about 16 days, and 4 young eventually fledged.

Here’s the list for today:

Blackbird x 1 – heard only
Blue Tit x 1 – think it’s the one nesting in the nest box, but haven’t seen any birds in the box.
Carrion crow x 1
Coal Tit x 2 – saw them mating.
Dunnock x 3
Greenfinch x 2 – my mum who is visiting from Australia felt these looked like Budgies! Guess she doesn’t notice the parrot beak to the finch beak, she was a little away from them, so I’ll forgive her.
Magpie x 2
Woodpigeon x 2

Bird List for Monday 15th of April 2013

Great news everyone! The RSPB Sparrow Terrace Nest Box that I put up earlier in the year is now in use! Not by sparrows, but a blue tit has started using the middle box, was a bit worried nothing was going to, but very excited to see a blue tit bringing nesting material into the box yesterday!

Sorry my bird list is a day late again, a lot happening with my parents being here! I also was updating all the finance pages for www.SaverScene.co.uk yesterday, which during ISA season takes a bit longer due to a lot of changes. If you haven’t taken advantage of the tax free cash ISA you can find the best ISA rates here: SaverScene: Highest ISA interest rates (now closed as I move into gardening as a profession), obviously if you have any questions about that feel free to ask on the forums or drop me an email.

Blackbird x 1
Blue Tit x 1 – I only saw one going in and out of the nest box.
Bullfinch x 1 – Male
Carrion crow x 2
Coal Tit x 1
Dunnock x 3
Greenfinch x 1
Kestrel x 3 – 1 was chasing another one off, a couple seemed to be creating a territory.
Magpie x 2
Woodpigeon x 1

Wow the wind in Edinburgh had the birds in hiding!

I couldn’t believe how windy it was here, I saw very few small birds at all today, and only heard a blue tit briefly, hope Spring starts properly soon!

My garden bird list for today, and I was outside a lot, although windy it was pretty sunny in the afternoon:

Blue Tit x 1 – heard only
Dunnock x 2
Greenfinch x 1

Not in my garden, but on a walk around Corstorphine Edinburgh:

Jackdaw x 6
Magpie x 1 – collecting nesting material
Rook x 1
Starlings x 2
Woodpigeon x 1

If you happen to be in Edinburgh over the next few days/week The Royal Yacht is celebrating her 60th birthday, even for non-royal fans it’s worth having a look, I wasn’t sure when I went, but the engine room is a great museum piece and the tearoom is lovely, also at this time of year there’s often Eiders off the side, as well as a few different divers, shags and cormorants. Find out more about the 60th birthday here: 60 years of Britannia.

Where have all my house sparrows gone?

Wow the snow really came down hard over night and most of today, I only had brief chances to look outside as I was doing DIY projects trying to get a room ready for when my parents come over from Australia on Sunday!!! Hopefully we’ll make it in time, and between DIY and watching birds I was doing the finance updates for ISAs, credit cards and saving accounts over on www.saverscene.co.uk (now closed as I move into gardening as a profession) – I try to find the best rates to help everyone, it’s tough time for savers!

I did a great list of birds even for the short time I managed to look outside, the blackbird count was fantastic, interesting to note that it was 4 male and 1 female. I’m pretty sure there was a Black-headed gull and it looked as if the summer plumage had really come in and looked fantastic:

Blackbird x 5
Black-headed Gull x 1
Blue Tit x 2
Coal Tit x 1
Dunnock x 2
Greenfinch x 2
Long-tailed tit x 1
Magpie x 1
Woodpigeon x 2

It’s weird that pretty much after I put up a RSPB terraced nestbox for house sparrows and about that time they all disappeared! Not seen them for over 2 weeks.

Where have all my house sparrows gone?

Wow the snow really came down hard over night and most of today, I only had brief chances to look outside as I was doing DIY projects trying to get a room ready for when my parents come over from Australia on Sunday!!! Hopefully we’ll make it in time, and between DIY and watching birds I was doing the finance updates for ISAs, credit cards and saving accounts over on (UPDATE: saverscene now CLOSED due to moving to carer in horticulture hope to have my gardening website up early 2019) – I try to find the best rates to help everyone, it’s tough time for savers!

Blackbird x 5
Black-headed Gull x 1
Blue Tit x 2
Coal Tit x 1
Dunnock x 2
Greenfinch x 2
Long-tailed tit x 1
Magpie x 1
Woodpigeon x 2

It’s weird that pretty much after I put up a RSPB terraced nestbox for house sparrows and about that time they all disappeared! Not seen them for over 2 weeks.

Gust of wind blows a flock of gulls over my garden.

A very quiet day in the garden today, didn’t get to see a lot of birds at all, but nice to see the Coal tit back, there were about 70 gulls flying overhead but I couldn’t tell you what type they were as they were caught in a massive gust of wind and went by very fast. Would love to be out seeing cracking birds such as the Water Rail that was photo of the week on Bird Guides – Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) – Here’s my list of birds I saw today:

Blackbird x 2
Blue Tit x 2
Coal Tit x 1
Greenfinch x 2
Woodpigeon x 2

On the gust of wind – about 70 gulls, but not sure what type.

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

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