A busy month in the garden, lots of our usual visitors and a few new ones too. The strange little bird that appeared this week http://cumbrianretreat.blogspot.com/ has been causing lots of folk to scratch their heads. The best and most likely suggestion came from Dave, who has a cracking website http://www.garden-birds.co.uk. He thinks it may be a leucistic Siskin ie. one who has weak pigmentation. On close inspection, it looks very similar to a juvenile Siskin, but it is too early for that, so we think he is probably correct.
The list for April looks like this:
Rooks
Stock Doves
Starlings
Blackbirds
Dunnocks
House Sparrows
Blue Tits
Great Tits
Coal Tits
Siskin (Including the leucistic one)
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Robins
Collared Doves
Pied Wagtail
Bullfinch
Nuthatch
Wren
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Jackdaws
Hen Pheasant
Brambling
Linnet
Reed Bunting
Sparrow hawk
Swallow (12th April)
French Partridge (pair)
Red Poll
Possibly a tree sparrow, but not sure!
In the field behind the garden:
Many of the above, plus
Flock of Whinchat
Wood pigeon
Buzzard (flying over)
Geese (flying over)
Curlew (flying over)
Hare.
Cock pheasant
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