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I put this up, but not sure if it got posted.
There is still today (Sunday) and Monday to take part.
Did it last year, but working all weekend and tomorrow so won't get it done this year. Shame, as we've had goldfinches, 30+ sparrows, nuthatches, long tailed tits and a mistle thrush as regular visitors to the garden.
So windy here, the birds were getting blown about a bit.
Saw our usual collection of sparrows, coal tits, blackbirds, robins and great tits. Also a gold finch which we see less often especially in the winter. Normally they visit when the dandelions have gone to seed after I haven't mown the lawn for a while 🙂
A very poor showing here.
1 black cap
1 dunnock
2 feral pigeons
1 woodpigeon
The cold windy weather has kept the birds away.
Finally lured a red kite in on Friday.
I work in an upstairs room overlooking the back garden which is small and surrounded by the house and trees and hedges, so I thought it might be a bit confined for birds that big to land and take off. I've tried getting them in by leaving out tasty scraps and bits of carrion, but no luck until I tried a pheasant rib cage. The kite took a reconnaisance pass from right to left being pestered by a couple of magpies. I had the camera ready, but it did an ambush over the house roof, dived into the garden, grabbed the bait on the wing and was off and away over the back hedge without pausing. It didn't actually stop, so I'm not sure whether it counts but sod it, it made my week, can't have been more than ten feet away at the closest.