BTO Garden BirdWatch 24-30 June 2007

We've had two new garden year ticks this week: on Sunday 24 we had our first Nuthatch of the year, and then on Thursday 28 we had a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker feeding on the peanuts at the bottom of the garden.

In order of appearance:

1. Nuthatch (1 - garden year tick)
2. Great Tit (1 - juvenile)
3. Chaffinch (22)
4. Greenfinch (15)
5. Blackbird (5)
6. Starling (20)
7. Pheasant (1 - male)
8. Goldfinch (4)
9. Woodpigeon (4)
10. Collared Dove (3)
11. Siskin (2)
12. House Sparrow (25)
13. Blue Tit (2 - adult and juvenile)
14. Great Spotted Woodpecker ( 1 - juvenile GYT)
15. Jackdaw (2)
16. Song Thrush (1 - juvenile)
17. Carrion Crow (1)
18. Pied Wagtail (1)
19. Dunnock (1 - juvenile)

Juvenile Greenfinch

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Our Garden Year List currently looks like this:

(in order of appearance)

1. Robin
2. Chaffinch
3. Greenfinch
4. Goldfinch
5. wren
6. Blackbird
7. Collared Dove
8. Woodpigeon
9. Starling
10. Blue Tit
11. Sparrowhawk
12. House Sparrow
13. Dunnock
14. Jackdaw
15. Black-headed Gull
16. Song Thrush
17. Pied Wagtail
18. Siskin
19. Blackcap
20. Chiffchaff
21. Long-tailed Tit
22. Great Tit
23. Yellowhammer
24. Feral Pigeon
25. Carrion Crow
    
26. Pheasant
27. Nuthatch
28. Great Spotted Woodpecker

Overhead, and nesting on some of the houses (not ours, unfortunately), we have Swallows and House Martins, though not as many as last year, and the odd flurry of Swifts passing through.