New to my garden bird list

[alan_rymer]

Got up at 5:45 the am. Whilst getting my breakfast my Lab dog told me he wanted to go in the garden. So taking a bowl of cereal with me we both went outside. We have one large Birch Tree and a Robin was singing its little head off ( couldn't see the megaphone it was using, shouldn't be allowed when people are still in bed ). A group of 4 birds flew in and were silhouetted against the sky. Small birds, insect eating bills!. I nipped back indoors for the bins, and, Blackcaps, 4 of them!. Never seen any in my garden before, and now 4 of them at once!.
Must get out earlier more often!.

[Reader]

It's the dog from the Lab I'm worried about: LOL

It makes me wonder just what birds do drop into our gardens whilst we are tucked up in our beds. Nice find Alan.

[alan_rymer]

John J
He should be in a Lab!.
Thick as two short planks. Assumes any door will open if its head butted hard enough. Deaf as a post from almost continuous ear infections. Moults 360 days a year. But its those big brown eyes that talk to you and gets me out for an hour or two birding every day.
But. Enough about the wife.

[alan_rymer]

Its happened again!.

Got home from work last night, went upstairs to get changed into jeans etc to take the dog & myself for a walk. Trousers off, shirt coming off, staring out of the window into my huge birch tree to see if anythings there when I notice a little bird, hmm Wren, no shouldnt be, to high & exposed. Goldcrest?. Looks like a Goldcrest, must get downstars to the Bins, but first the jeans ( have you noticed how difficult it is to run witrh jeans halway up/down and feet still in legs? ). Anyway, get downstairs in one piece and moraless decent. Grab bins, focus, and YES!!. My first garden Goldcrest, just a week after my first Garden Blackcap.
I love that Birch tree!.

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