The selection of birds in the garden does change over time. I haven't seen our starlings for a while but the other regulars are around in numbers. Blue tits are the most common of course followed by great tits although there have been no coal tits recenty. On the other hand the back garden did get a visit from a small flock of long tailed tits today which foraged in the old man's beard growing through my neighbour's leylandii as well as taking both sunflower hearts and fat. Among the finches our regular charm of goldfinches keeps visiting. They can be dificult to count but there have been nine in the garden at one time. The bullfinces are also reglar visitors with at leat founr individuals taking sunflower seeds both from the feeder and from pieces fallen to the ground. The greenfinch that I saw earlier in the season seems to have stopped visiting and chaffinces are infrequent. On the ground we have the usual selection of robin, wren, blackbird, wood pigeons and magpies b
Once upon a time you could find me birding on the Thames marshes almost every weekend through the winter. For various reasons I am now seldom able to travel to good birding sites. I am lucky, however, to live in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and this blog is to document the birds that I see on my own patch.