Hi readers good news!!!
Firstly the Pintail is still here, I have been seeing him nearly everyday for the past few weeks and I am seeing a lot more Mallards which is very good. Some might say that the Mallards have returned!!
Also i am getting a lot more blue tits and great tits in my garden and the other day i saw a long tailed tit perched on a bush in my garden. i have also heard a chiff chaff from my garden and it was coming from the canal so hopefully it will visit my garden.
Another strange event after the pintail was a chaffinch in my garden, I know chaffinches are common in gardens but i haven't had one in my garden before and for the first few days of it being in my garden it was flying into the glass on my summer house but after i opened the door it must have realised that it was its reflection and it has stopped doing that now.
I don't know if anyone saw but yesterday there was an astonishing amount of gulls over the canal, black headed, lesser black backed, greater black backed and herring gull were there. i think that there could have been a couple of terns amongst them but i'm not too sure.
I also had a squirrel problem for a while but fortunately it has gone, i shall tell you why and how i got rid of it. it was in my birdtable and i went out into the garden to scare it off and i got reasonably close and when it noticed me it started spinning around in my bird table and i moved back a step and it jumped out and stumbled over my next door neighbours fence and i haven't seen it since.
I will probably give another update soon because i just saw a bird that i can't identify so i will post after i have identified it.
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James
