Redwing - 3 or 4 feeding on the grass and in the trees

Blackbird - several birds noted including a male with white tail feathers

Pied Wagtail - 1 or 2 on the paths

Grey Heron - one chased by Herring Gulls

Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 or 2 overhead

Chaffinch - 1 singing

Greenfinch - 1 or 2 singing

Goldfinch - 2 or 3

Blue Tit - several seen and heard

Great Tit - 1 or 2

Starling - several groups of birds seen

Jay - at least 2 birds seen

Carrion Crow - 1 or 2

Magpie - a few

Blackcap - a male near the bowls club

Woodpigeon - lots!

Collared Dove - 1 or 2

Robin - 2 or 3 in song

Dunnock - 2 singing birds

Goldcrest - 1 singing in the pine near the toilets and briefly glimpsed


19 Feb Surprisingly quiet today, although the station produced a male and female Blackcap, a Jay, 6 Chaffinches, Blue and Great Tits, 11 Starlings, a Greenfinch and a Goldfinch together with gaggles of House Sparrows and Collared Doves.

17 Feb In St Pauls Park this morning I saw what I assumed to be the resident Chiffchaff but I only had brief and distant views and to be honest it didn't seem to behave much like one i.e. it did not dip its tail and it looked too slender and long-winged. Weird. Birds I was able to identify included singing Dunnock and Greenfinch plus Blue and Great Tit.
 
16 Feb A visit to St Andrews Park produced at least 1 Redwing (not as common as they were) and up to 2 singing Goldcrests. Other odds and ends included a Coal Tit and Robin near the pond, 5 Chaffinches, a singing Mistle Thrush, a Pied Wagtail and a Greenfinch or two.

A Jay and a few Chaffinches (one heard singing) were at the top of St Andrews Road.

15 Feb A rather impressive count of 15 Chaffinches at the station this morning plus the usual Starlings and 2 Grey Squirrels.

11 Feb A resident of this fair parish was admiring a Dunnock as I approached the station. The bird was sat on an exposed branch and singing lustily. At the station itself 2 Robins were both singing with a metre of each other in the same tree but otherwise showed no aggression - not sure what was going on there for such a territorial species. Also a singing Wren, a few Starlings, a couple of Chaffinches and a tit flock nearby. A Grey Squirrel was near the feeders as usual.

10 Feb A Sparrowhawk was perched on the top of St Pauls Church/Circomedia in Portland Square this morning and there were several Long-tailed Tits and at least 1 singing Greenfinch in St Pauls Park.

8 Feb Nothing new or particularly exciting to report this morning - in Montpelier Park there was a party of Long-tailed, Blue and Great Tits, 2 Blackbirds and 5 Chaffinches, while at the station there were 2 Grey Squirrels, 10 Starlings and a Dunnock.

6 Feb A Raven flew over the railway path this morning - the first for some time. Also at the same spot a male Blackcap showed well and was heard sub-singing. Nearby a a party of Long-tailed Tits were feeding in the trees.

At St Andrews Park there were the usual Starlings plus a Goldfinch and some Long-tailed Tits.

At the station the Starlings numbered about 8 and a Greenfinch was singing.

3 Feb I note a comment by Jan in the guestbook that she had a Waxwing in her garden on 1st February - well done!

A less spectacular collection of birds in St Pauls Park this morning included a distant singing Song Thrush, 2 Wrens, 2 Robins, 2 or 3 singing Greenfinches and a couple of Blackbirds.

2 Feb A report from Julie of a Bullfinch in her garden yesterday - these birds are very few and far between these days around Montpelier. Great stuff.

The singing Song Thrush and the Pied Wagtail near the station this morning.

1 Feb Nothing new to report this morning, although the Song Thrush was still singing in the distance, heard from the station, and a Pied Wagtail and a couple of Chaffinches were near the allotment gardens.