Garden Birds
Monday, 28 November 2011
All the birds that we’ve seen in our Hackney garden. We’re in Dalston, and the garden backs onto St Marks churchyard. the yard and gardens together make a substantial green space with trees and plenty of cover. The usual suspects, with one exception: we’ve never seen a thrush. As for the heron, we have a small pond with fish in, and the sparrow hawk is one of a pair in the church tower. Our pond has running water, and we have a feeder with seed all year round. This spring we had two families of great tits nesting, and one lot of blue tits. Sparrows have returned just in the last year or two.