Twitching Tuesday – Great Tit

Twitching Tuesday – Great Tit

Oops forgot to hit publish and its a couple of days late, but better late than never! Did you manage to do the Big Garden bird watch? We did, and saw 5 sparrows, 2 great tits, 2 blue tits, 2 coal tits, a nuthatch, 2 robins, a blackbird, a dunnock, a marsh tit, a...
Twitching Tuesday, Wren

Twitching Tuesday, Wren

Now for one of my favourite birds, the wren. This tiny little bird spends a lot of time picking over the wood piles in the barns, for her favourite foods spiders and insects. She is one our smallest birds, and sometimes seems so infinitely delicate. She sits on the...
Twitching Tuesday – Blackbirds

Twitching Tuesday – Blackbirds

This week’s post is all about another common garden bird, the blackbird! They are often found here around the base of the bird feeders, picking up the bits the messier small birds spread far and wide from the feeders. Or they are in the bushes shouting at us as...