This is my third year of noting down the birds in my back yard for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. I don’t know how, but I somehow ended up doing it a day early on Friday. In reality you were supposed to join in on Saturday or Sunday or even tomorrow, so there’s still time if you want to record the wildlife in your garden. You can submit your results online here. Anyway I don’t suppose it matters , me being an early bird. 🙂
Unfortunately I did not get the variety of species that I have had in previous years. The birds are definitely still around but chose not to appear in the hour. I ended up recording 9 House sparrows ( at least I can depend on them! ) and erm, 1 Mouse. Oh and I had to shew a neighbors cat away. My own cat Slinky was happily snoozing on the bed.
Just like last year I joined my sister, niece and nephew for their Big Garden Birdwatch, which we did this afternoon. We counted 4 Bluetits, 2 Coaltits, 3 Chaffinch, 2 Robins, 1 Great Tit, 2 Nuthatches, 1 Grey Squirrel and 2 Pheasants. Similar to 2019 except no Dunnock or Long Tailed Tits. A flurry of Long Tailed Tits typically showed up after the hour , but we of course couldnt include the latecomers.
Little Walt the new kitten joined us for the birdwatch. I have a feeling he might want to do more than birdwatch next year though. But isn’t he adorable! Maybe we can ask him to scare off the naughty squirrel who hogged the bird table…..
Are you going to do the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch?
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Little Walt is adorable.
He’s a cutie and very cheeky. 🙂
Of course….😀
I’ve done this in the past with my daughter.
Did you see many jackdaws? 😁
I’m thinking of renaming my blog City Starling.
Those birds with their starry plumage are made for poetry. 🙂
So many cute creatures 🙂
I so love that kitten – it’s a good job your sister doesn’t live near me, I’d be kidnapping him if she did 🙂
Yeh he’s to cute for words. Could have snuck him home in my bag. 🙂
I think it used to be Friday- Sunday. I did mine on Saturday but no mouse for me.
I think your right, so maybe that’s how i got the dates muddled. The mouse lives behind our shed I think. When the visiting birds drop crumbs on the ground it enjoys the spoils.
Walt is a very cute kitten such a beautiful colour and markings. I’m glad we decided to do the birdwatch on Saturday as Sunday was such a horrid wet day here. You saw some lovely birds and how great to have both nuthatch and pheasant in the garden. Nine sparrows and a mouse is good too for your earlier count. Is the Bird Wild coffee good? I might try some next time we visit the RSPB shop at Carsington:)
Yes I like the coffee. Give it a go. 🙂
X
All done best spot was a solitary Long Tailed Tit.
They are such bonnie birds. Love them!
I bought the mug too! It’s great! x
Nice to have a mug covered with our feathered friends. 🙂 X
Walt is gorgeous! 😍 We counted blue tits, sparrows, magpies, pigeons, a robin and black bird but we haven’t seen the long tailed tits for a while, hoping they’ve found somewhere warm to wait out the winter and that they’ve not succumbed to the cold. X
Walt should be a model!
That sounds like a good selection of birds. I get sporadic visits from long tailed tits and only once a magpie, so quiet envious. Hope your long tailed tits return. X
Walt is so cute! Such a perfect little face.
Hypnotic eyes. 🙂
What a little cutie Walt is. We have done the count in past years but we were too busy on all the days to do it this year. One year we got none as it rained all weekend!
Oh no that’s a shame! It’s just typical, you can have plenty of visitors in the morning, then none all afternoon. Anything can happen!
I did it, a very enjoyable way to spend an hour. Big exciting news from our garden this winter is that we now have tree sparrows. 4 so far. Have put up a tree sparrow nest box for them.
That’s amazing! Hope they use the nest box. 🙂 X
Lovely photos of the birds.
Well done you! 🙂 🙂 I’m not a cat person but that’s a very winsome kitten.
He is the most gorgeous cat I have ever met. 🙂 X
Isn’t it lovely to just sit a while, watch and listen to the animals around us. xx
Definitely, so relaxing and exciting when you see something. X
Lovely photos 💕
We also had a terrible Birdwatch this year, the worst ever – just one blackbird, over two whole days! If you want to share in my misery I blogged about it here: https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/64reflections.home.blog/984 At least, since then, we’ve been visited by a pair of dunnocks and a pigeon, but it’s wretched when they don’t come, isn’t it.
Incidentally, Walt the kitten is amazingly cute!
It is when you know there are other birds around usually. Not to worry! Walt is super cute. 🙂