Every year the RSPB conduct a huge survey of garden birds.
This is done by taking a snapshot of the birds people all over the UK see in
their gardens during the last weekend of January. The first survey took place
in 1979, the most recent was last weekend. This year the first birds I spotted were three redpolls,
which wasn’t surprising as they’ve been regular visitors since I hung a
nyger seed feeder on the clothesline. They were followed by blackbirds, magpie, great
tits, a nuthatch, chaffinch and blue-tits and my favourites, the long-tailed tits, who gathered on the fat balls. But there were fewer species this year, no sparrows, starlings, siskins, goldfinch or great spotted woodpecker.
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