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Garden bird count, Jul - Sep 2004
Now including mammals and butterflies
Last updated 03 October 2004

The numbers given are the total seen at any one time.
Green numbers indicate selected sightings from but not in our garden.
Week beginning 27/06 04/07 11/07 18/07 25/07 01/08 08/08 15/08 22/08 29/08 05/09 12/09
Blackbird 1 1 1 1 1             1
Bluetit 8 6 4 7 6 4 7 10 6 8 5 5
Chaffinch 3 2 1 4 1 3 3 3 7 2 2 10
Coal tit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1   1
Crow 1 2   3 1 1 2 1   2   1
Dunnock 1                 1 1 1
Feral pigeon 3 1 2   3              
Great tit 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 1
Greenfinch 4 4 4 2 4 5 5 7 15 6 8 5
Heron 4                      
House sparrow 7 1 1                 2
Jackdaw 9 12+ 7 6 2 1 3 1   1 1 1
Lesser black-backed gull 1 1 1 1*     Y          
Magpie         1***     1     1 2
Mallard 12 13 7 2 1              
Robin           1 1 1 1 1 1  
Rook   1 1 1         1      
Siskin 3     2                
Starling 20 3 1   1   1 7 1 20+ 1 2
Swallow 1                   Y  
Treecreeper         1              
Willow warbler     1?   1   1 1        
Wood pigeon 2 1 1 1 1   3 1   1    
Cat 1** 1 1 1 1 2 1 1   1    
Frog   1 1               1  
Grey squirrel 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1
Hedgehog 1                      
Green-veined white               1        
*We found a lesser black-backed gull in our garden with both legs broken. Fred has seen it the day before with one broken leg. We took it to a rescue centre, but unfortunately it was not possible to save it and it had to be put down. This was not a bird which had visited us before, as one of the legs had been broken for some time and we had not seen one with a broken leg before.
**Fred saw a cat which had caught a blackbird, but he was able to rescue the blackbird and it survived.
***A juvenile magpie was lying in a box of corn. It had probably been attacked by jackdaws, and it subsequently died.