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Following Janice's nicely timed reminder about this activity I wondered whether anyone who has taken an hour or so out watch, log and upload a count to the RSPB - Big Garden BirdWatch might want to share their tally with us ... :shrug:

I counted mine around mid-morning today and here is my tally up-loaded to the RSPB's web site shortly afterwards ... :geek:


Item Species Count

1 Barbary Dove 1
2 Blackbird 7
3 Blue Tit 8
4 Brambling 1
5 Chaffinch 11
6 Coal Tit 1
7 Collared Dove 13
8 Dunnock 2
9 Goldfinch 11
10 Great Tit 2
11 G-S Woodpecker 1
12 Greenfinch 8
13 House Sparrow 2
14 Long Tailed Tit 3
15 Magpie 3
16 Nuthatch 1
17 Reed Bunting 3
18 Robin 4
19 Siskin 10
21 Sparrowhawk 1
22 Starling 3
23 Woodpigeon 1
24 Wren 1

Last bird in right at the end was the Sprawk ... :cautious: ... so I figured it was time to pack up at that point ... :D





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How do you tell the difference between a Barbary Dove ( African Collard Dove ) and an ordinary Collard Dove ? We always call them collard Doves, I'd like to know if we've got any !

Blackbird 10
Blue Tit 12
Chaffinch 5
Coal Tit 1
Cllard Dove 2
Dunnock 1
Great Tit 4
Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 2
Long Tailed Tit 14
Magpie 2
Robin 2
Starling 10
Woodpigeon 4
Crow 1
Nuthach 2
Pied Wagtail 1
 
KeithH said:
How do you tell the difference between a Barbary Dove ( African Collard Dove ) and an ordinary Collard Dove ? We always call them collard Doves, I'd like to know if we've got any !
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Keith apart from being a lot more scarce the Barbary is a lot lighter than the Collared and has an almost pied/mottled effect to its plumage that makes it really attractive and stand out from the crowd ... of Collared Doves ... ;)


HTH ... :shrug:



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Completed at 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Blackbird 13
Blue tit 2
Chaffinch 2
Collared dove 6
Dunnock 2
Goldfinch 4
Great tit 2
Greenfinch 4
House sparrow 6
Long-tailed tit 7
Magpie 3
Robin 3
Song thrush 3
Starling 1
Woodpigeon 9
Wren 1
Barn Owl 1 (sat in one of our trees in the garden before you say Ven :LOL:)
Great spotted woodpecker 1
Grey wagtail 1
Kestrel 1
Mistle thrush 2
Pied wagtail 2
Tree sparrow 1


The most almighty alarm calls from our black birds swiftly followed by the Kestrel swooping and then sitting a branch below the Owl scared off all the birdies about 10 mins before the end of the hour here.

:clap: Nice to see people doing this survey, it's very important and much needed info. Well done all :clap:
 
how do you know that you havent counted the same blue tit about 8 times in that hour?
 
Thats what I thought Janice, so I made notes throughout the day, and then only used the ones where the birds actually came down in groups.

Heres mine....

Blackbirds ..... 5
Blue Tit ....... 6
Crow ........... 2
Chaffinch ..... 10
Coal Tit ....... 4
Collared Dove 2
Dunnock ...... 1
Feral Pigeon 5
Goldfinch ..... 4
Great Tit ..... 6
LLT ............ 3
Magpie ....... 3
Robin ......... 2
Starling ..... 26
Wood Pigeon 2
 
Just the one for me everything else stays well outta the way including cats :D

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Here is my list from this morning 1100-1200

Blackbird 4
Blue tit 6
Carrion Crow 8
Chaffinch 4
Coal tit 3
Collared dove 2 (nice loving couple they are)
Dunnock 12
Great tit 12
Greenfinch 1
House sparrow 1
Magpie 2
Robin 2
Starling 5

we did not see our Thrush today or the little Wren but the

Lesser Spotted woodpecker came to the nuts 1

and the Wagtail was wondering about 1

That's us.

Bill
 
Janice said:
how do you know that you havent counted the same blue tit about 8 times in that hour?
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A very good and valid point well made J ... (y)


But that should have been avoided as the object of the count was to count the highest number of any one species in the garden at any one time and would avoid that very problem ... ;)


HTH ... :D



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You people have ridiculously busy gardens!
Saturday lunchtime-ish in my suburban back2back produced the following ...

1x Blackbird
1x Blue Tit
2x Coal Tit
1x Collared Dove (usually 2, but only seen 1 all weekend)
2x Greenfinch
8x House Sparrow
1x Robin

Don't get starlings visiting at this time of year and the sparrows, tits and finches are greatly reduced too, but it was better than expected.
 
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