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Thread #125505   Message #2779468
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-Dec-09 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Which birds come a-visiting you?
Subject: RE: BS: Which birds come a-visiting you?
Here in north Cornwall, just inland, rural location, as follows:

Common as muck: blackbird, wren, house-sparrow, greenfinch, dunnock, blue tit, great tit, wood pigeon, collared dove, robin, starling, fieldfare (winter), chaffinch, magpie, swallow

Frequent: buzzard (overhead), goldfinch, sparrowhawk, kestrel, heron, rook, crow, long-tailed tit (little winter flock), sand martin, house martin (not nesting on our house unfortunately), song thrush, mistle thrush, chiffchaff, pheasant, mallard, redwing (winter), swift (overhead)

Occasional to rarely seen: nuthatch, coal tit, bullfinch, blackcap

We rarely see town birds such as pigeons and jackdaws. We get things flying over such as all those gull jobbies (found a dead guillemot outside my garden once), and a little egret about 12 years ago when they were rarer than they are now. There are peregrines around here but I can't remember seeing one over my garden. I'm sure I've left something out.