BIRD LIST

All right, I know it is July and this was taken in the snow but it was Jays annoyed that they could not get at the peanuts in the feeder outside the bedroom window that roused me this morning. They are timid, skittish creatures but that flash of blue on the wing is a joy.

Once, as a boy, I found one of these small feathers and the detail and brightness of the colours is stunning.

Now to the reason for this blog - it is time I gave you a long dreary list of the birds seen in the garden though there is a problem - do I add those seen from the house in the fields next to us or flying over like Gulls, Geese and Cormorants?

In no particular order -

*flying over or ** in fields

Mallard Long-tailed Tit Woodcock

Buzzard Wren Cormorant*

Sparrowhawk Mistle Thrush Green Woodpecker

Peregrine Falcon Song Thrush Raven*

Kestrel Blackbird Assorted Geese*

Pheasant Redwing Mute Swan*

Jack Snipe Fieldfare

Lapwing** Robin

Curlew** Willow Warbler

Herring Gull* Chiffchaff

Lesser Blackback Gull* Dunnock

Greater Blackback Gull* Pied Wagtil

Wood Pigeon Starling

Collared Dove Greenfinch

Tawny Owl Goldfinch

Swift* Chaffinch

Swallow Bullfinch

House Martin* House Sparrow

Carrion Crow Tree Sparrow

Rook Jay

Jackdaw Treecreeper

Magpie Spotted Flycatcher

Coal Tit Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Blue Tit Heron

Great Tit Grey Wagtail

It is difficult to identify the geese as they are at height flying to and from the Duddon feeding grounds.

Still waiting for a Nuthatch (Osprey and Golden Eagle).(Penguin, Ostrich, Moa, Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, Archaeopteryx)