Summary January 2013 Garden January started much like the tail end of December but it was very warm for the time of year. The two Mistle Thrushes are rarer now that they have more or less eaten all the Rose hips at the bottom of the garden. There are plenty of Tits including Coal Tits…
Summary December 2012 Garden The start of December saw a change in the weather from the extremely wet weather of November to dry, sunny and freezing. This brought about a transformation in the garden with the sudden appearance of two Mistle Thrushes, two Blackbirds and a small flock of Starlings as well as a Robin,…
Summary November 2012 Garden This surely must have been the quietest November in our garden for years. For the whole first part of November there were very few birds around except the usual Goldfinches and a few Tits. Towards the middle of the month a Blackbird started visiting the garden and a Robin comes occasionally…
Summary October2012 Garden The start of October was very wet with some really torrential downpours. A few days towards the middle of the month were sunny and cold but the rain kept coming back in, sometimes, biblical quantities. October saw the return of Blackbirds and we have had a noisy pair in the garden recently….
Summary September 2012 Garden The start of September saw an improvement in the weather and by the end of the first week we had seen a few sunny days. On 7th we had a Great Spotted Woodpecker on our nut feeder in the garden which is a rarity. It had a rather stripy red head…
Summary August 2012 Garden August started with some really sunny weather which was pleasant but it being August the birds are hiding away moulting. The numbers of Goldfinches have increased considerably with the addition of this years cohort. By the middle of the month some of them were starting to moult into their adult plumage…
Summary July 2012 Garden The awful weather continued into July as all records for rainfall in the UK were broken. Thankfully we were on holiday on Mull from the 7th – 17th where, contrary to the rest of the country, the weather was beautiful. Details of this holiday can be seen below but suffice it…
Summary June 2012 Garden The good weather that was a feature of the end of May was promptly replaced by heavy rain for the start of and this lasted for most of the month. Our pair of Blackbirds had three fledglings that they were feeding in our garden and a little later that appeared to…
Summary May 2012 Garden The start of May saw a little improvement in the weather as some of the heavy rain stopped. On 3rd May we saw a newly fledged Dunnock pecking around trying out various things to see if they were edible. By the end of our holiday mid-month we saw our first –…
Garden The very pleasant weather changed a bit at the beginning of the month with snow in lots of parts of the country for a day or two. We didn’t get any in Manchester but the temperatures dropped quite a bit. The garden is very busy with all sorts of birds bathing every day and…
