Summary August 2012
Garden
August started with some really sunny weather which was pleasant but it being August the birds are hiding away moulting. The numbers of Goldfinches have increased considerably with the addition of this years cohort. By the middle of the month some of them were starting to moult into their adult plumage with some reddish orange starting to appear on their heads. Sometimes there are around fourteen on the feeders at one time. The odd juvenile Greenfinch is also to be seen. The Blackbirds that were so in evidence a few weeks ago seem to have completely disappeared. In the air above by the middle of the month there were just one or two Swifts left and by the end of the month, none. No Robin was seen until the very end of the month when a juvenile sporting a pale red breast started to come to the bird table.Dunnocks can be heard easier than seen; even the House Sparrows seem to be laying low.
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