RSPB Big garden birdwatch (3 Viewers)

[Cornish mouse]

It's anyone doing the rspb big garden birdwatch this weekend? I have just submitted mine
1 robin
1 dunnock
1 marsh tit
2 blue tits
1 wren
2 jackdaws
4 wood pigeons
1 grey wagtail
1 blackbird
2 magpies
1 herring gull
1 song thrush
3 long tailed tits (possibly more, it was so hard to keep track with them flitting around with the bluetits)
1 coal tit

Also 2 grey squirrels.

I had Merlin running too just to help with sound identification so I could better know what to look for. It kept insisting it could hear a grey heron. I suppose it's possible, there is a small steam at the end of the garden but I certainly couldn't see it 🤣 it also kept hearing a jay which we do get sometimes but no visual on it today either.

 

[YuShan]

It was a pleasure as always, especially with the gorgeous sunny weather here today.



Also heard a Wren singing briefly and a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, but not seen and therefore not counted.
Also at least one Grey Squirrel.

 

[Cornish mouse]

It was a pleasure as always, especially with the gorgeous sunny weather here today.

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Also heard a Wren singing briefly and a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, but not seen and therefore not counted.
Also at least one Grey Squirrel.

I always love it when I see a bullfinch we so rarely see them in my area. I haven't seen any finches in my garden yet. I see greenfinches occasionally at the end of my street so they are around but they don't come into the garden. Any advice for attracting them?

 

[YuShan]

I always love it when I see a bullfinch we so rarely see them in my area. I haven't seen any finches in my garden yet. I see greenfinches occasionally at the end of my street so they are around but they don't come into the garden. Any advice for attracting them?

Bullfinches breed in a nearby park that is only a couple of hundred metres away, so I'm lucky to get some spill over from that! I have no first hand advice on attracting specific species, because I don't have feeders in my garden. (It's not technically my garden either, but a communal garden. I count everything that I can see from my window as "my garden").

 

[ChrisMc1957]

Yes, I submitted my list yesterday, did it all online, so don't have a copy of it. What I do know is that most of my bird numbers were above the average, our garden is full of birds at the moment.

 

[Euan Buchan]

Did mine at 8.56-9.56

It wasn’t the big list but the Heron was the highlight every count counts.
3 Woodpigeon
4 Magpie
3 Chaffinch
1 Blackbird
1 Heron

 

[Julie50]

Just completed - from the front window of my flat.

5 goldfinch
6 wood pigeon
4 magpie
1 crow

 

[markpie]

Long-tailed Tit 3
Great Tit 2
Blue Tit 1
Robin 2
Dunnock 1
House Sparrow 1
Woodpigeon 2
Magpie 2
Carrion Crow 1

 

[Helen O]

Rural woodland garden, Oxon.
Sunday 26th Jan 2025 0930-1030

18 bird species

Missed out on the occasional black caps, and the handful of daily pheasants. Only count birds in trees, or on ground, not fly overs

2025 (2024)

1 Wren 2
3 Robin 1
1 GSW (male) 0
11 Blue tit 6
8 Great tit 3
8 LTT 3
2 Marsh tit 1
5 Blackbird 3
5 Chaffinch 2
3 Wood pigeon 19
3 Red Kites 4
1 Common Buzzard 0
0 Pheasant 2
1 Coal tit 1
0 Goldfinch 1
3 Jay 2
2 Dunnock 1
2 Stock dove 3
2 Carrion Crow 2
2 Magpie 2

10 Squirrel 3
2 Rat 2
1 Muntjac 2

 

[Steve Lister]

Typical - the quietest morning in my garden for ages, hardly a bird.

Impressed with the immediate feedback fron the RSPB though.

 

[Kits]

Dreadful weather - windy and pouring rain

1 blackbird (male)
7 blue tit
1 coal tit
1 collared dove
1 dunnock
1 great tit
1 kite
2 long tailed tit
1 magpie
1 pheasant (female)
1 robin
17 rook
2 wood pigeon

 

[Farnboro John]

Did my count this morning: loads of flypasts that were completely uncountable, Little Egret, various gulls, Feral Pigeons.

Quite a few birds that normally come in relentlessly teased from beyond the garden - Woodpigeons, Carrion Crows, Goldfinches, even the local Great Tits.

So, the legitimate birds:

Robin 1
Red Kite 1 (foraging in my airspace)
Blue Tit 2
Sparrowhawk 1 (also hunting in my airspace)
Magpie 1

John

 

[Cornish mouse]

Rural woodland garden, Oxon.
Sunday 26th Jan 2025 0930-1030

18 bird species

Missed out on the occasional black caps, and the handful of daily pheasants. Only count birds in trees, or on ground, not fly overs

2025 (2024)

1 Wren 2
3 Robin 1
1 GSW (male) 0
11 Blue tit 6
8 Great tit 3
8 LTT 3
2 Marsh tit 1
5 Blackbird 3
5 Chaffinch 2
3 Wood pigeon 19
3 Red Kites 4
1 Common Buzzard 0
0 Pheasant 2
1 Coal tit 1
0 Goldfinch 1
3 Jay 2
2 Dunnock 1
2 Stock dove 3
2 Carrion Crow 2
2 Magpie 2

10 Squirrel 3
2 Rat 2
1 Muntjac 2

Very nice haul

 

[Euan Buchan]

It’s funny during Big Garden Birdwatch it’s like the birds know because sometimes not always I see less in my garden when I take part in mine but the next day I see a lot more activity like today I’m seeing more then I did yesterday.

 

[Cornish mouse]

It’s funny during Big Garden Birdwatch it’s like the birds know because sometimes not always I see less in my garden but the next day I see a lot more activity like today I’m seeing more then I did yesterday.

I had a visit from a neighbour's cat about 40 mins in so that probably didn't help my count

 

[Helen O]

Very nice haul

Thanks Cornish. It wasn't too shabby, annoyed about the pheasants though!

 

[Georgebirds]

I had a quiet day too, a lot of the regulars weren't around, which seems to happen often on the Big Garden Birdwatch day - I have a theory that perhaps more people are putting out food, who don't usually do it daily, so the birds are spread across more gardens than usual on that particular morning!

13 sparrow
3 blackbird
2 dunnock
2 jackdaw
2 woodpigeon
1 wren
1 collared dove
1 stock dove
Would've been nice if the flyover red kite could've come down to perch, just for a second would've done it!

 

[Pam_m]

Sunday 26th January 2025. 8.45-9.45am.

Blackbird 2
Blue Tit 1
Dunnock 3
Robin 1
Woodpigeon 19.....hungry birds!
Jackdaw 3
Magpie 6
Carrion Crow 2
Coal Tit 1
GreatTit 2

 

[WACCOE]

Blackbird 3
Magpie 1
Woodpigeon 3
Collared Dove 4
Blue Tit 3
Dunnock 2
Robin 1
Wren 1