This Evening in My Garden

It was like Manchester Airport with all the aerial traffic in and over my garden this evening when I saw the following:

• Blue Tits in and around the nest box
• Blackbirds - severall pairs
• Goldfinches - singing loudly from the tops of conifers and rooftop aerials
• A Greenfinch singing in a conifer and then from a rooftop aerial
• A Coal Tit briefly
• A Magpie lurking around the rooftops
• Starlings - ever present
• House Sparrows nesting in my next door neighbours eaves - young making lots of noise
• Collared Doves
• Woodpigeons
• Carrion Crows over
• Gulls returning to roost from Astley Tip I expect

Earlier in the day I also saw Kes, our resident Kestrel from a distance and two low flying Carrion Crows one of which had so few ofeathers in its wings I could see straight through them.