Garden Birdwatch
My new years resolution is to stop and watch, life in the garden.
It has been fascinating to witness a flock of linnets racing between silver birch tree and the walnut tree; backwards and forwards they went. Then as I was collecting my post, I saw a single linnet singing its heart out on the crab apple down the drive; pretty pink colouring around its neck.
Out of my dining room window, I often see two collared doves. I've named them Beetle and Blossom. They sit in the lilac tree, snug as can be, talk to each other, preen themselves, stretch a little, twissle round then sit down again, snug as can be!
A green woodpecker has been under the walnut tree twice this week, and a lesser spotted one too. Crowds of black crows, maybe jackdaws fly into the tree, then swoop down to eat the nuts below.
Tits (blue and great) and robins skip about in the bushes close to the house, while blackbirds come close to the kitchen window to steal the cotoneaster berries displayed below. They also love the yellow rowan berries on Sorbus Joseph Rock which I can see as I work at my computer. see my website
Your garden sounds wonderful I shall have to come.
I think you get crowds of rooks but crows tend to fly singly. Not sure about jackdaws but they are a bigger bird!
Posted by: Jean Havelock | October 25, 2007 at 09:02 AM