A glance out the back window of our house revealed a Sparrowhawk that had picked off one of our House Sparrows. There have also been some other unusual sightings including a Grey Wagtail that has been with us since February, Pheasant, Fox and Hedgehogs
Covid continued with a vengeance into 2021 and from January to March the only birding we did was back garden birding which features the usual suspects. The only notable events were the appearance of a pair of Grey Wagtails that showed up on the 6th and became very attached to the meal worms I am…
We had the very first visit of Ring-necked Parakeets to our garden on the 8th of June with three of them being quite entertaining. Of course, that may not be so appealing if the three grows to thirty! Also in the garden the same day were good numbers of House Sparrow, fledged Starlings, Robin, Blackbird…
Now that autumn is approaching, it is clear that the birds are returning to the garden, with daily visits from the Coal TIt and the Nuthatch – even the Robin is starting to try to use the suspended feeders. I would put food out on the bird table for the ground feeders but it has…
Big Garden Birdwatch : 26 January 2014 It seems a long time since you could sit down and make a good list of birds in your garden during a sixty minute period. Last year was a total blank and this year was not a lot better though we did get a couple of nice ticks….
Winter Redwings in Chorlton
Mixed Flock in Garden : 7th August 2011 A very unusual sight in the garden. I looked casually at the back garden feeders as I must do a million times a day and was somewhat amazed to see half a dozen Long-tailed Tits all over the feeders. On top of this there were nine Blue…
Weather The weather this month has continued to be a bit up and down with the odd fall of hail stones and some heavy downpours but most days fairly dry if – almost always – a bit windy. Towards the middle of the month we got some more heavy rain and this continued intermittently until…
Garden and General The month started with a warm and dry but very windy spell. By the middle of the month some rain had set in and the weather was generally changeable with some heavy downpours at times. We hope we are winning the war with the neighbouring cat but now we cannot put any…
April has been remarkably dry and warm. The Met Office described it this way – “With high pressure influencing the weather for most of the month, it was much warmer, drier and sunnier than normal. The mean temperature was 4.0 °C above the 1971–2000 average and it was the warmest April in the series from…
