Mini Merseyside Big Garden Birdwatch count 2019

Once again we have undertaken a mini Merseyside birdwatch count:- 30 Observers from Merseyside to Rainford  sent in their counts, which you can see in the table below. 
Once again robin, blackbird and bluetit were the species seen in most gardens. 

I was pleased two of our Red listed garden birds came out on top,  despite starlings and sparrows  being missing from many of our gardens - it may be interesting to see if there are any common denominators  that indicate why these 2 species favour certain gardens, something that is highlighted in the sparrow survey 

1 new species arrived in our garden count - Brambling, a lovely  bird for your garden list, Damian has both male and female birds in his Rainford garden 
https://twitter.com/DamianYoung75/status/1094659806567321600

Little egret was in the field, close to the back of Carol's Hale garden and Moorhen is a regular visitor to her garden pond. Parakeets still being seen, and in different gardens each year.

SPECIES		No’s of gardens seen in	TOTAL No’s of birds seen	RANK By no’s seen	RANK  By gardens found in	Red Amber Green
1	BLACKBIRD	25	64	5	3rd
2	WREN	8	18	8	10
3	BLUE TIT	28	47	7	2nd
4	GREAT TIT	24	37	10	4J
5	COAL TIT	10	12	16	8J
6	LONG TAILED TIT	8	21	13	10J
7	ROBIN	29	38	9	1st
8	BLACKCAP	4	4	19	13
9	STARLING	10	105	1st	8J	Red
10	DUNNOCK	22	27	12	5J	Amb
11	HOUSE SPARROW	14	103	3rd	7	Red
12	FERAL PIGEON	9	50	6	9
13	WOOD PIGEON	24	77	4	4J
14	COLLARED DOVE	8	18	14J	10J
15	GOLDFINCH	17	104	2nd	6J
16	CHAFFINCH	17	46	8	6J
17	GREENFINCH	6	18	14J	12J
18	JAY	3	3	20J	14J
19	JACKDAW	6	16	15	12J
20	MAGPIE	22	35	11	5J
21	CROW	7	11	17	11
22	GOLDCREST	2	3	20J	15J
23	NUTHATCH	2	3	20J	15J
24	SONG THRUSH	2	2	21J	15J	Red
25	GREY WAGTAIL	1	1	22J	16J	Red
26	SPARROWHAWK	3	3	20J	14J
27	GT SPOT WOODPECKER	3	3	20J	14J
28	LESSER REDPOLL	1	1	22J	16J	Red
29	PIED WAGTAIL	1	1	22J	16J
30	R NECKED PARAKEET	1	2	21J	16J
31	BRAMBLING	1	2	21J	16J

32	REED BUNTING	1	1	22J	16J	Amb
33	LITTLE EGRET	1	1	22J	16J
34	BLCK HD GULL	1	2	21J	16J	Amb
35	MOORHEN	1	1	22J	16J

36

HERRING GULL

23

3

20J

15J

Red

RED, AMBER GREEN https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife-guides/bird-guide/redliststory.aspx

Last year’s results:

https://liverpoolrspb.blogspot.com/2018/03/our-mini-rspb-big-garden-birdwatch.html

For those of you who have enjoyed taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch and would like to record more, please consider joining the BTO Garden BirdWatch , this will involve you recording your birds every week and uploading them to the BTO website. The count includes other nature sightings such as insects & mammals and also records the type of food you put out, more recently they have included your sightings of diseased & dead specimens.

 http://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/gbw

Many thanks to all those who took part in our little survey, I hope you find it of interest. Please free to add your comments and observations, on our blog.