Saturday, 30 January 2016

The Big Garden Birdwatch


 My garden sparrows 



Fieldfares from the public footpath at Worthenbury


Woodpigeon doing his best to bump up the biomass

Numbers were definitely down this year - only 29 birds in all, and 9 of those were house sparrows. Other species recorded: blue tit, long-tailed tit, coal tit, robin, wren, blackbird, woodpigeon, jackdaw. No finches, no starlings and no dunnocks, which is unusual. I wonder if other birdwatchers have found this kind of a dip?

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Monday, 4 January 2016

Fabulous Amphibians to open 2016!


Do check underneath piles of garden rubbish if you're moving them at this time of year. Some little animals use them to over-winter in.