Did anyone do the garden birdwatch this past weekend? I want to know why they always disappear for the weekend and as soon as you have finished the survey they come back.... It has happened the past couple of years and I know others have mentioned it as well.
I have decided that I will count all those who came during the week instead of saturday and sunday. No one around me does the birdwatch so I think that would be okay. My neighbour and myself count between us the birds in our gardens. I found that mainly the sparrows and dunnocks stayed in her garden over the weekend and yet had been in mine all week (only about half a dozen came into mine over the weekend ) and I had many more starlings than she did. Overall we get quite a few species of birds Blackbirds, Starlings, Dunnocks, Sparrows, Robins, Wood Pigeons, Collared Doves, (and a squirrel for good measure ). Like I said in another post, the bluetits haven't been seen to nest last year so I can't really count any of those this year. Even the magpies that nested were not around at the weekend.