Garden Birds

Having been in my new house in Ireland for nearly 6 months I thought I’d report on the birds in and around my garden and also share some of the pictures I’ve taken of them. Since I put up some bird feeders a couple of weeks ago the numbers of birds in the garden has increased dramatically, back in Essex Greenfinches were getting harder and harder to come by but I now have loads of them fighting over the feeders along with Great Tits, Sparrows and the very territorial Robin which is really good to see. I’ve had plenty of surprises including Raven, Siskin, Goldcrest and Peregrine and still need to get pictures of all of them! But here is the full list so far.

1. Blackbird 2. Blue Tit 3. Bullfinch 4. Buzzard 5. Carrion Crow 6. Coal Tit 7. Dunnock 8. Goldcrest 9. Goldfinch 10. Great Tit 11. Greenfinch 12. Hooded Crow 13. House Sparrow 14. Kestrel 15. Lesser-black Backed Gull 16. Long-tailed Tit 17. Magpie 18. Mallard 19. Meadow Pipit 20. Mistle Thrush 21. Peregrine 22. Pied Wagtail 23. Raven 24. Redwing 25. Robin 26. Rook 27. Siskin 28. Song Thrush 29. Sparrowhawk 30. Starling 31. Wood Pigeon 32.Wren