I missed last year’s Big Garden Birdwatch because I was in hospital.
The year before that I was in Avignon.
In 2023 I diligently sat in the conservatory for a whole hour and saw:
- One unidentifiable Little Brown Job
- One wood pigeon, which sat for a very long time on my neighbour’s chimney and never came into my garden, and could not therefore be counted.
I was therefore very pleased with this year’s much more respectable list:
- Two wood pigeons
- Five long-tailed tits
- Two blackbirds
- Four house sparrows
- One robin
- One great tit
- One blue tit
And, in the “not a bird” category, a grey squirrel. Much more like it.
Kathleen Jowitt 