I'm doing it tomorrow too, I also have food out all year round.
Perhaps we could share if we see anything different from those they list.
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Couldn't do it this year, as I've been teaching a workshop all weekend. I hope you all saw lots of wonderful birds!:)
I usually have food out but must admit I haven't been doing it every day over the last few weeks. I put a mixture of food out on Saturday morning and some more this morning. I have noticed there aren't many birds around now anyway.
The only birds which came in to the garden today were 1 blackbird, 1 robin, 1 wren, 2 collared doves, 1 house sparrow and 1 magpie. I did have a pair of blackbirds which produced 3 babies but, unfortunately only 1 baby survived. Usually, when I first put the food out, there are around 15 starlings, half a dozen sparrows and 3 or 4 doves.
How did everyone else get on?
Well, I didn't see any birds which don't usually come into our garden, although living by the coast we get others not on the RSPC list. We have a large collared dove community round here (on the list, of course), several blackbirds and jackdaws and many varieties of tits and finches. We rarely see starlings in the garden any more, and today I didn't see one robin or wren in the hour. That could have been because the garden seems to be being targeted by a persistent sparrowhawk recently!
I didn't see much in my hour yesterday, it was very quiet.
1 Robin, 2 Blackbirds, 1 Great tit and 1 Blue tit.
I usually get a few Blue tits, the odd House sparrow, Magpie, Wood pigeon and ocassionally a Wren.
I did have a Pheasant come into the garden last year, it was that time of year and I think he was lost and confused 🙂