Monday, January 21, 2013

Garden Bird Watch 2012

Here are the results of another year's staring out of the window (2011 numbers in brackets). Every species except the wood pigeon is down in numbers or the same.

Blackbird 3 (5)

Blackcap 2 (2)

Black-headed Gulls 1 (15)

Blue Tit 2 (5)

Bullfinch 1 (0)

Buzzard 2 (0)

Chaffinch 1 (3)

Chiff chaff 1 (0)

Coal Tit 1 (1)

Collared Dove 4 (7)

Common Gull 2 (0)

Crow 1 (1))

Dunnock 2 (4)

Fieldfare 1 (3)

Goldfinch 4 6 (20/2) 4

Great Tit 3 (21/5) 2 2

Green Finch 1 (27/11)

Herring Gull 3 (3/6) 2

House Martin 15 (16)

House Sparrow 13 (14)

Jackdaw 2 (2)

Jay 2 (1) 
 
Long-tailed Tit 5 (2)

Magpie 2 (2)

Robin 2 (2)

Sparrowhawk 1 (1)

Starling 8 (20)

Swift 3 (5)

Wood Pigeon 4 (3)

Wren 1 (1)

1 comment:

Gongoozler said...

My understanding is that the garden birdwatch rules say you only count birds that land, not those flying over. Did you really have 2 buzzards and 3 swifts land in your garden?