SATURDAY 31st JANUARY 2015

Liplje - to Ljubinkas and back

Good views of the Treecreeper showing buff lower belly/rump and calling.
Sparrowhawk was a garden tick perching very close to our bird table.
The Tawny was sat on  our electricity pole above the bird table no doubt  attracted by the mice feeding on the grain below it.

Tawny Owl
2 Goldcrest
Short-toed Treecreeper
M.S. woodpecker
G. s. Woodpecker
3 Nuthatch
Goldfinch
6 Jay
80 Hooded crow
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk male
Blackbird
12 Great tit
4 Blue tit
3 Marsh tit
2 Brambling
2 Chaffinch
15 Yellowhammer
4 Tree Sparrow

WEDNESDAY 28th JANUARY 2015

2°C, wind W/NW 14kph, overcast dull light snow earlier and last night about 3cm, pressure 1016 and falling.

Liplje -  Finch numbers rising recently with fantastic flock of 37 Yellowhammer (Mon) and new maximums of 6 Chaffinch and 4 Tree Sparrow today.

Circuit 1 and feeding station at home
Green Woodpecker
Buzzard
3 Jay

The Lightening Tree

Blackbird
Nuthatch
2 Great tit
14 Goldfinch
4 Tree Sparrow
 8 Feral Pigeon

Feeding Station -
G.S. Woodpecker 
M.S. Woodpecker
Jay
Brambling calling
35 Yellowhammer
6 Chaffinch 3 male & 3 female
4 Tree Sparrow
10 + Great tit
5 Blue Tit
2 Marsh tit
Nuthatch


The Lightening tree
My lightening tree stricken but not dead
Speaks to me but has no head
holds out its limbs remenants of great boughs
pleads to thunder god Perun
look what have you done
Bed of thorns
Deformed and scarred
My burnt and blackened heart

MONDAY 26th JANUARY 2015

0°C, wind 16kmh from NW, overcast ,dull ,light snow, fresh snow on trees and patchy on ground, pressure  1023 hPa

Liplje -  at home feeding station

37 Yellowhammer
3 Cirl Bunting 2 male & female
3 Chaffinch 2 male & female
3 Tree Sparrow
Robin
Jay
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker male & female
Middle Spotted Woodpecker

SATURDAY 24th JANUARY 2015

2-5°C, wind  W/NW 1-16 mph, overcast dull steady light rain, pressure 1009 hPa

New record for the Yellowhammers today. Sparrowhawk had a go at the tits/finches but with no success and the Woodpeckers have been much less in evidence perhaps as a consequence of her presence. Pity the Greenfinches didn't come down to feed.

Liplje garden feeding station

17 Yellowhammer various ages/sexes
Cirl Bunting male
4 Chaffinch 3 male + female
12+ Great tit
4+ Blue tit
3 Marsh tit
2 G.S. Woodpecker male and female
M.S. Woodpecker
Sparrowhawk female
2 Nuthatch

4 Greenfinch near by on edge of garden

FRIDAY 23rd JANUARY 2015

5°C, no wind, mostly overcast and dull, pressure 1006 hPa

Great to have the Black Woody back and performing well. Excellent views today of him drumming. Noticed that he was using short stubs of wood on the main trunk to  drum out his message, each stump having a different tone. The drumming wasn't particularly loud but more prolonged than the other species here. I was fascinated by the wonderful tone and resonance that obtained by what looked like a short dead branch on a live main  trunk.
Good to see Mistle Thrush which is scarce here with just a few sightings last year

Liplje - circuit 1 8:30-10:15

Black Woodpecker singing & drumming
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Green Woodpecker
6 Nuthatch probably 3 pairs
2 Eurasian Treecreeper
2 Buzzard
6 Feral Pigeon
Hooded Crow
2 Magpie
11 Jay 7 feeding together
4 Marsh tit
12+ Great tit
6+ Blue tit
2 Blackbird
Mistle Thrush
11 Yellowhammer
2 Cirl Bunting
2 Chaffinch
2 Goldfinch
Hawfinch
2 Tree Sparrow 

2 Roe Dear doe & buck
First daisies and speedwell's in flower yesterday and green hellebore today.
First honey bees on hazel catkins yesterday.

THURSDAY 15th JANUARY 2015

1-10°C, wind light variable, mostly clear sunny, pressure 1023 hPa

Liplje, circuit 1

Very quiet today with fewer birds in the garden and around the the village.
2nd male Cirl Bunt at Raspberry Plantation.

Black Woodpecker calling
Green Woodpecker calling
3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 female & male
Middle Spotted Woodpecker male
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Magpie
Collard Dove
Raven
3 Cirl Bunting 2 male & female

TUESDAY 14th JANUARY 2015

Liplje

Flock of 160+ finches including -

40 Brambling
60 Yellowhammer
Chaffinch
Greenfinch heard

Elsewhere -
39 Tree Sparrow
Green Woodpecker

Home feeding station -
3 Great Spotted Woodpecker  male & 2 female
Middle Spotted Woodpecker male & female
13 Yellowhammer
2 Brambling male & female
2 Tree Sparrow
2 Cirl  Bunting male & female

SUNDAY 4th JANUARY 2015

Milder with rapid thaw. 2 or 3 degrees above freezing during the day.

Liplje - at home feeding station

Brambling male
7 Chaffinch
4 Yellowhammer 1st W & adult males
2 Cirl Bunting male & female
2 Tree Sparrow
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker male & female
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Nuthatch
2 Marsh tit
10 Great tit
6 Blue tit
Robin
3 Jay

16:30 roost in cemetery wood

200 Hooded Crow
150 Jackdaw