New Romney - mild, dry and sunny, SE2 - This weekend was the RSPB`s annual garden bird survey, so I spent an hour counting the birds from the kitchen window in our small, town garden. Most of the activity was on or around the feeders where 32 birds of 10 species were recorded. I was thrilled to bits when `our` regular flock of Long-tailed Tits came through whilst counting, all six of them, and as the fat ball hanger is only 10 feet from the window I managed a few half-decent pics, and what super little birds they are. There was a typical absence of finches, and whilst Goldfinches are irregular visitors I`ve only noted Chaffinch twice and have yet to log a Greenfinch in just over two years.
Elsewhere this weekend our farmland Ted walks out to St-Mary-in-the-Marsh have yielded few birds apart from several singing Skylarks today in the warm sunshine and a Chiffchaff along Hope Lane. A flock of 500 Woodpigeons on the Salts yesterday was noteworthy, plus a handful of Yellowhammers and Song Thrushes. Three each of Common Buzzard and Kestrel at both sites were making the most of the fine weather to hunt for prey.
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