Apparently, along with 500000 others we took part in the BGBW on Saturday. I know it's not a competition, but desperate to get as high a count as possible we charged the feeders, added additional home made fat balls and even resorted to some bread for the jackdaws! We did our allotted hour starting 9.30am and as ever with these things it was a bit of an anti climax. We got some good numbers but nothing out of the ordinary really turned up - where have our siskins and redpolls from last winter gone? Nevertheless, the count was:
goldfinch 10
chaffinch 11
blackbird 4
dunnock 3
blue tit 6
coal tit 1
great tit 3
robin 2
jackdaw 3 (well done bread!)
G S Woodpecker 1
collared dove 2
house sparrow 12
greenfinch 1
pheasant 1
Winter returned with a vengeance last night with snow in the village and 3 or 4 inches up on the tops being blown into drifts - no wonder there is not much around.
Think we may abandon Swaledale next weekend and pop up to Caerlaverock and check out the wildfowl on the mudflats.
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