Summary June 2012
Garden
The good weather that was a feature of the end of May was promptly replaced by heavy rain for the start of and this lasted for most of the month. Our pair of Blackbirds had three fledglings that they were feeding in our garden and a little later that appeared to be four fledglings. A Coal Tit and two fledgling Coal Tits have been visiting the feeders, several Blue and Great Tits and their young and around ten Goldfinches are regular on the feeders. A Dunnock is often to be seen but perhaps less obvious than usual. We think that we have seen a fledgling Dunnock some times. A pair of Bullfinches, a male and a female, have been daily visitors to the feeders, sometimes several times a day. The House Sparrows from over the back seem to spend a bit more time in our garden and we still have to fend of the Woodpigeons and Collared Doves so that the other birds can get a look in. On the downside there are still no Robins or Starlings to be seen. We found a large bundle of feathers on the lawn one day early in the month which made it look like we had had a visit from a Sparrowhawk but we haven’t seen it ourselves – or rather we hadn’t seen it until 30th June when Anne walked into the garden disturbing it and it flew to the tree next door and then away from there. Unfortunately, by the time she had called me it was gone which was a shame because I still haven’t seen one this year yet.