Summary January 2013
Garden
January started much like the tail end of December but it was very warm for the time of year. The two Mistle Thrushes are rarer now that they have more or less eaten all the Rose hips at the bottom of the garden. There are plenty of Tits including Coal Tits and we still see the male and female Blackcaps but the only time that we have seen them together they didn’t get on with each other too well. The Dunnock continues to furtle around and I saw a Wren briefly on 4th. We sometimes have a visitation from the House Sparrows from across the ginnel. By the middle of the month the weather got much colder with snowfalls on some days. As usual, Manchester seemed to get off lightly. The snow at the middle of the month meant that some of the birds disappeared for a bit; the Starlings were an example of this, but the ones that did remain were constantly coming to the bird feeders or table.