The Joy of Nature - big bird watch and surprising behaviour of a cow!

We enjoyed doing the bird watch today, though as usual you do it, make your count, then an hour later there seems to be twice the amount in the garden! 

A small Chaffinch flock was the greatest numbers, but only then 1 or 2 of the rest- green finch, blue tit, dunnock, blackbird, robin, coal tit, siskin, house sparrow. 

Now there are more numbers of the rest and bullfinch too! But my numbers are submitted so no fudging the results. I think the wind was a bit strong earlier and it's improved now as the red squirrel is about now too.

That sounds an interesting selection. I find that often the usual ones don't come, or only one and two. 

I do 2 or 3 hours on different days and then submit the best one.  One hour hardly any came,  one had 2 robins and 3 blue.... But I submitted the one that had less of more birds and included 2 greenfinches, as I haven't seen any for years and saw that the numbers had diminished due to disease. It is good to see that you also saw greenfinch, so hopefully their numbers might be increasing again.

That sounds an interesting selection. I find that often the usual ones don't come, or only one and two. 

I do 2 or 3 hours on different days and then submit the best one.  One hour hardly any came,  one had 2 robins and 3 blue.... But I submitted the one that had less of more birds and included 2 greenfinches, as I haven't seen any for years and saw that the numbers had diminished due to disease. It is good to see that you also saw greenfinch, so hopefully their numbers might be increasing again.