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Big Garden Birdwatch : 26 January 2014

Big Garden Birdwatch : 26 January 2014

It seems a long time since you could sit down and make a good list of birds in your garden during a sixty minute period. Last year was a total blank and this year was not a lot better though we did get a couple of nice ticks. We have been on holiday so have not being doing much garden observing of late so it is hard to say of the male Blackcap we saw has been around for a while or whether it was a brief visitor. We also got a Wren which was nice but, other than that, it was a pair of Blackbirds, a pair of Great Tits, A Blue Tit and a Woodpigeon. That was our lot. We did see a Redwing and some Goldfinches from our window but not in our garden.

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