The RSPB on Club Together

Birds must know its the count weekend, our small town garden has been inundated.  More Long Tail Tits than we have had before, at least 8 plus a dozen Gold Finches, 4 Greenfinches etc.  Looking forward to an excellent day and keeping the feeders topped up

Sadly less here 😢.    

What came out top and second on your bird count lists? Housesparrows were first for me, followed by Dunnocks.

Goldfinchs followed by Blue tits for me.  Not as many birds came to visit as usual however I suspect this was due to the weather being poor. 

Starlings x 25 followed by Gold Finches x 12

So glad I found this thread Ash. My new passion is feeding the local bird population. I have a variety of bird feeders which allows me to feed all sorts. Wild bird seed, Niger seeds, sunflower hearts, fat balls, nuggets, peanuts etc my large feeders are 1.2mts long and 4 ins in dia. They hold about 6.5 lbs of food. I started hoping that I could entice goldfinches to the garden- I needn't have worried- the numbers have built up over the months and we had a flock of about 30 the other day. As the weeks pass, I am always on the look out for new species visiting the garden. Up to last week we had had the usual one would expect with Sparrow, Dunnocks, Robin, Bluetit , Coal Tit, Great Tit, Green finch Chaffinch, Wren, Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon, the yobbo Starlings and the Blackbird I have been most fastidious making sure that there is always food available and that has led to this weeks new findings- long tailed tits and the one I am particularly pleased about - the Great Spotted Woodpecker arrived yesterday! We now seem to have a profusion of Blackbirds ground feeding on the seeds that the other have dropped. As many as 8 at a time. Just listening to these little creatures singing and twittering in the gardens is payment enough. It is SO worth feeding them as they give such pleasure. 

Saw my first ever Goldcrest this morning in the garden, a lovely little bird! 

Laura wrote in Nov 16 - We are looking forward to welcoming our new RSPB officer in the New Year

Any news yet Laura?

Hi Oneputt,

The lead post was actually updated yesterday afternoon. I am delighted to introduce Tania from RSPB.

Tania looks forward to engaging with you all and will be posting on this discussion in due course. 

Thanks Laura.

An early welcome to Tania, look forward to some really interesting discussion.