10/5/15
day on allotment...

1st swifts of year
swallows
kestrel
carrion crows,
jackdaws
magpies,
blackbirds,
house sparrows,
wood pigeon
collard doves
coal tits,
blue tits
great tits (in my nest box)
robin
greenfinch,
goldfinch,
wren




-- Edited by Rachael Hill on Monday 11th of May 2015 10:44:44 AM

Wed 18/3/15 12.30pm

2 buzzards over allotments quite low, circling (seen one week before Ashton West End)

RSPB Big Garden birdwatch 25/1/15 14.45-15.45
(2nd attempt due to noisy footballers earlier, though still disruption from a bonfire)

2 blackbirds
2 collard doves
8 house sparrows
2 dunnocks
2 great tits
2 blue tits
2 wood pigeons
1 long tailed tit
2 goldfinch
2 robins
1 magpie

Big Garden birdwatch down the allotment
2 woodpigeon
4 blackbirds
24 house sparrows
2 robin
1 dunnock
5 great tits (2 very very mucky! I have never seen 2 birds so covered in mud)
1 starling
2 blue tits
1 long tailed tit
2 collared doves
3 goldfinch
1 wren
5 magpies
1 mistle thrush

overhead
1 lapwing & 2 cormorant!

& my 5 year old son correctly recognised every bird he saw

Had a request to have a topic to cover our allotments in Audenshaw, off Mount Pleasant Street plus also cover the field (lots of walkers out there).
I know several plot holders feed the birds and have nest boxes.
Be interesting to see what we do get in this patch.
Regards
Rachael