Thursday, January 11, 2007

10 Species of Birds...

... visible from my kitchen window during a short period yesterday:


  1. Crows
  2. Blue tits
  3. Great spotted woodpecker
  4. Lots of gulls (dunno which kind, I don't do gulls)
  5. Woodpigeons
  6. Six magpies (six for gold - yay!)
  7. Great Tit
  8. Starlings
  9. A heron
  10. A robin
You can tell it was only a short period as sparrows aren't on the list, and you can't look out of any window in our house for long without seeing a sparrow.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Has hubby added any humerous sightings to your list yet?

Melanie Rimmer said...

What, you mean like when we were keeping a list of birds and after "robin" he wrote "batman"?

Anonymous said...

Yup, stuff like that

Anonymous said...

Which way round are woodpeckers? We have green ones that are called Yaffles locally (because they make a yaffly laughing sound) and untidy black and white ones with a red splodge.

Melanie Rimmer said...

My woodpecker was the black and white and red one. A great spotted woodpecker like this:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/g/greatspottedwoodpecker/index.asp
I haven't seen a green woodpecker round here, but they're supposed to be fairly common all over Britain.

Anonymous said...

That's groovy, anonymous, now I understand why the woodpecker on Bagpuss is called Professor Yaffle. I never knew it meant anything in itself til now.