I have always kept a list of the species of birds I see every year, unfortunately I happened to mention this to members of our Local Wildlife Group committee and now found we have all kept a yearly list and it has got pretty competitive, only rules are the bird must be seen in the UK.

This year I have decided to keep a monthly list as well as a year list, looking at the months from January so far my monthly list has gone 78, 60, 72, 73, 74, 66, 51, 58, 70 and so far this Month 58. Obviously dropped off a bit in July and August but starting to build up again with the winter birds flying in.

Hopefully November and December may become colder and I get some good garden birds like this Sparrowhawk below that sat on our birdfeeders in January and February this year.

Sparrowhawk waiting on our garden birdfeeders