The garden is full of bird life at the moment from dawn to dusk. A particular highlight today has been our ‘crazy’ male chaffinch who has spent the day fighting his own reflection in the kitchen window – exhausting for him and us! A Chaffinch is usually quite a rare sighting in our garden and this spring we seem to have a pair that are present most of the time.
This post is intended to be a simple record of the birds we have spotted in the garden today (7 April 2019). The garden is about 1 acre and located in the countryside just outside Warwick (UK). It has a substantial number of mature trees and shrubs and is surrounded by countryside on all sides. This is mainly grazed pasture but there are also arable fields close by (this year mainly growing oil-seed rape which is just starting to come into flower).
We have a number of bird feeders in the garden which contain peanuts or a bird seed mix. Here are today’s sightings. The photographs are all taken in the garden but not necessarily today.
Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)
Great Tit (Parus major)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
There are of course other birds that visit from time to time but they have not appeared today. Next week perhaps!
We are out in the garden ... 