BTO/CJ Garden BirdWatch Survey 21-27 May

Fledglings are now starting to turn up regularly in the garden. On Thursday we had the first House Sparrow fledglings and on Friday we had a juvenile Collared Dove and a family of six baby Greenfinch - and judging by the way they were flying around the garden and almost crash landing in the trees, on the feeders and on the lawn I think they had left the nest just a few hours earlier. I wonder if one of our Pheasants will bring his family at some point?

1. Siskin (6)
2. Greenfinch (12)
3. House Sparrow (5)
4. Chaffinch (10)
5. Starling (9)
6. Woodpigeon (6)
7. Robin (1)
8. Dunnock (1)
9. Goldfinch (5)
10. Great Tit (2)
11. Blackbird (4)
12. Pheasant (1)
13. Jackdaw (5)
14. Collared Dove (1)
15. Carrion Crow (4)
16. Blue Tit (1)

Today (Saturday) we started reshaping and tidying the border edges. We were joined several times by a female Blackbird waiting for worms, and also the Great Tit from Thursday, who I now know is female, who was back looking for sunflower seeds behind the bench. Neither bird showed any fear and was quite happy to hop around us as we dug the garden.

Reshaping the border. These borders were only planted last July so are still very young.

You may be able to make out the trellis at the top of the border; this is where my sweet peas are growing (slowly!).

I now have a little bit more space to add something new! This is as far as we got today. We're about 1/3 done on this side of the garden!


This post is dated Friday as I started creating it yesterday and then saved it as draft when I realised it wasn't Saturday yet!- Birdman had the day off so I got confused with my days!