Wow! Just become a home owner for the first time! So, for the first time I've got my own garden, and my own garden list. My rules are thus - anything seen or heard, in or from, the property. Behind the garden are a couple of dedicated parking spaces, below which flows a small river (the Alyn), which unfortunately can barely be seen through the bushes and trees lining its bank, although this may improve as the leaves start to fall (and with a bit of judicious pruning).
We started moving in on Thursday, and without really paying any atterntion to anything other than carrying and fetching (and trying not to do my back in) only managed to move the list up to three - Jackdaw (plenty of these milling around) Woodpigeon (constantly toing and froing) and Blackbird (one came over the top of the house and plumeted down through the trees towards the river).
Friday was a bit more productive. On our first drop off of boxes, furniture and sundry kitchen appliances - a small group of House Sparrows in a neighbour's hedge and a Dunnock briefly low in the trees by the parking spaces. Next time round a calling Redwing (also seen flying over) and a fly-by Black-headed Gull. Then on our next drop off a whole series of heard only - Moorhen on the river, Carrion Crow & Jay in the trees above it and Kingfisher (again, down by the river). Also two fly-by Magpies, a single fly-over Starling and a singing Robin. Finally, at about half eleven, as we got back, done in, with our Chinese take-away and a bottle of plonk for our first night in the new house (once I'd made, by which I do mean constructed, the bed) a Tawny Owl was hooting. Still hooting this morning when I blundered across to the car to head off to work.
Working again tomorrow, but hopefully on my day off on Monday I'll have a bit of time to sit, watch and listen before embarking on my chores for the day (which I imagine will largely consist of unpacking boxes).
I'll update as and when the birds give me cause to, and will include a few more details about the site itself.
Oh, and the house itself is in Caergwrle, more or less half way between Wrexham and Mold.
James
Hi James,
Sounds great. I'll have to pop in for a cup of tea on the way to Anglesey's next Isabelline Wheatear!
Tom