Weather : Bright and sunny with a slight breeze
Through kitchen, bedroom, living room, and even possibly aeroplane windows, Team Tuesday were soon on the lookout for early visitors to the gardens of South Manchester. A wood pigeon was first on the list looking cross as they always do.
Familiar birds followed swiftly, magpie, blue tit, robin, blackbird and crow, the list was growing and it wasn’t even 9 o’clock. Fun diversions took us up to elevenses, a quick quiz and a look at one of our team’s tropical garden and then we’d soon seen other birding familiars, house sparrow, magpie, great tit, and goldcrest among them.
By lunchtime we’d heard a buzzard had welcomed back the safe arrival of one of our team from far flung shores. Various quizzes were still giving us something to think about and we’d added rook, herring gull, and jackdaw to the day’s tally. As the day moved towards our cut off time of 5 pm and while tea was brewing, sightings were still being posted, house sparrows, wren, blackcap, nuthatch, bullfinch, long tailed tits, and dunnock among them.
Just allowed were starling and parakeet and our longest collective birding day had finished with a list of 24 (CG miscounted last night! ed.) and so much more, photos of local trees in blossom, colourful flowers beautifully planted out, bumble bees, peacock and comma butterflies and finally one lesson learnt for future weeks, clean your windows first thing, in order to improve your photos! (HW)
Bird List (CG)
- Starling
- Blackbird
- Common Buzzard
- Woodpigeon
- Feral pigeon
- Blue tit
- Great tit
- Long-tailed tit
- House sparrow
- Wren
- Goldcrest
- Chaffinch
- Goldfinch
- Bullfinch
- Dunnock
- Robin
- Blackcap
- Carrion Crow
- Jackdaw
- Rook
- Nuthatch
- Magpie
- Herring Gull
- Rose-necked Parakeet
Birdwatching with Team Tuesday 