My Garden

Here is a list of the birds I have seen in or over my back garden in Tyldesley, Wigan.
  • Blackbird
  • House Sparrow
  • Starling
  • Wood Pigeon
  • Collared Dove
  • Magpie
  • Wren
  • Robin
  • Blue Tit
  • Great Tit
  • Coal Tit
  • Long-tailed Tit
  • Greenfinch
  • Goldfinch
  • Dunnock
  • Song Thrush
  • Jay
  • Bullfinch
  • Leucistic Blackbird
  • Sparrowhawk
  • Goldcrest
  • Carrion Crow
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • Willow Tit
  • Grey Wagtail
  • Wheatear (neighbour's roof)
Over my garden:
  • Herring Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Swift
  • Swallow
  • House Martin
  • Grey Heron
  • Pink-footed Goose
  • Cormorant
  • Kestrel
  • Jackdaw
  • Common Buzzard
  • Fieldfare
  • Lapwing
  • Raven
  • Mute Swan
  • Mallard
  • Canada Goose
  • Curlew
Unconfirmed sightings
  • An owl, probably Tawny very early in the dark one morning
Nesting
  • Starlings, most years in one particular corner of my roof
  • Blackbird - April 2009
  • Blue Tits - March to May 2011
  • Overnight roosting only - NetCam 2- February 2013
  • Blue Tit nest building - NestCam 1 - April 2015
  • Blackbird, Robin and Dunnock all nesting in neighbour's gardens but feeding in ours