Blimey, isn’t December a busy month?! No sooner had it
started than it seemed to have ended – plenty of family and friends and fun and
laughs and good times, but all over a bit too quick for my tastes… and with not
much time in between for birding.
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| Green Woodpecker (photo: Peter Walkden) |
What highlights there were came from that most regular, if
not always fruitful, of patches – the garden.
Along with our regular visitors – blue and great tits, house
sparrows, starlings, dunnocks, blackbirds, robins, wrens, wood pigeons, magpies
and one or two others – we were delighted to see the colder weather bring to
our feeders daily flocks of long-tailed tits, the occasional goldfinch, our
first great spotted woodpecker for several years and, most excitingly of all, a
garden tick – our first ever green woodpecker.
And now, as we head into 2015 I have a number of birding related resolutions in mind, including a bit of effort towards some new lifers. But, as ever, we'll see how that pans out in practice.
Bird of the month: Green woodpecker (Picus viridis), the
largest of our three woodpeckers and a real garden treat in a largely birding
free month.
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