Sunday 25 July 2010

BIRD LIST

All right, I know it is July and this was taken in the snow but it was Jays annoyed that they could not get at the peanuts in the feeder outside the bedroom window that roused me this morning. They are timid, skittish creatures but that flash of blue on the wing is a joy.
Once, as a boy, I found one of these small feathers and the detail and brightness of the colours is stunning.

Now to the reason for this blog - it is time I gave you a long dreary list of the birds seen in the garden though there is a problem - do I add those seen from the house in the fields next to us or flying over like Gulls, Geese and Cormorants?

In no particular order -
*flying over or ** in fields

Mallard Long-tailed Tit Woodcock
Buzzard Wren Cormorant*
Sparrowhawk Mistle Thrush Green Woodpecker
Peregrine Falcon Song Thrush Raven*
Kestrel Blackbird Assorted Geese*
Pheasant Redwing Mute Swan*
Jack Snipe Fieldfare
Lapwing** Robin
Curlew** Willow Warbler
Herring Gull* Chiffchaff
Lesser Blackback Gull* Dunnock
Greater Blackback Gull* Pied Wagtil
Wood Pigeon Starling
Collared Dove Greenfinch
Tawny Owl Goldfinch
Swift* Chaffinch
Swallow Bullfinch
House Martin* House Sparrow
Carrion Crow Tree Sparrow
Rook Jay
Jackdaw Treecreeper
Magpie Spotted Flycatcher
Coal Tit Greater Spotted Woodpecker
Blue Tit Heron
Great Tit Grey Wagtail

It is difficult to identify the geese as they are at height flying to and from the Duddon feeding grounds.

Still waiting for a Nuthatch (Osprey and Golden Eagle).(Penguin, Ostrich, Moa, Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, Archaeopteryx)

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