Birds are always less visible and indeed less audible in gardens in summer. The mating season Is saw over and food is plentiful in the countryside to where many disperse. It has been a bad year
for swallows, probably because of bad weather in North Africa and Southern Europe many never seem to have completed their migration.
Sadly many of our common birds are in decline, I haven’t see a greenfinch this year but have seen most of the regular suspects in my suburban back garden
This year since January I have seen in the garden
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Wren
Dunnock
Magpie
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Long Tailed Tit
Black Cap
Gold Finch
Chaffinch
House sparrow
Lesser Spotted Woofpecker
Green Woodpecker
Robin
Wood pigeon
Collared Dove,
The green woodpecker was digging for ants in the lawn last week. I often see a heron on my neighbours roof eying up his fish pond!
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