Big Garden Bird Watch

On the run up to the last weekend in January, with the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch imminent, many of my social media bird watching friends were warning that most garden birds seem to mysteriously disappear in the weekend of counting…so when I spotted the long tailed tits in number on the Friday, I decided to start my count then. As it happened, the Sunday would have been the better day with lots more LTTs and twelve goldfinches, but anyway, it didn’t matter – I had already reported my 16 species. The RSPB only display your top ten species on the graph, so they left off some of my more interesting sights, including greenfinches and nuthatches.

The month of January had been very varied in weather from icy cold frost mornings to heavy rain, snow and a little sun. Here’s a few pictures of my garden birds from 2021 so far.