Garden Birds 21 June 2022 v1

Great Tit - Parus major
It's the largest UK tit, green and yellow with a striking glossy black head with white cheeks and a distinctive two-syllable song.
It is a woodland bird which has readily adapted to man-made habitats to become a familiar garden visitor.
It can be quite aggressive at a birdtable, fighting off smaller tits.
In winter it joins with blue tits and others to form roaming flocks which scour gardens and countryside for food.
Can be seen all year round in woodlands, parks and gardens across the UK. Absent only from the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland.
Like all tits it is a cavity nester, usually nesting in a hole in a tree. The female lays around 12 eggs and incubates them alone, although both parents raise the chicks. Most years the pair will raise two broods. They mainly eat insects, seeds and nuts.
Length: 14cm
Wingspan: 24cm
Weight: 18g

House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
You can see house sparrows all year-round. They can be found in the centre of cities to the farmland in the countryside, they feed and breed near to people.
The species is vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages.
It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK population. Dropping by 71% between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations.
While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
As an adult, the house sparrow mostly feeds on the seeds of grains and weeds, but it is opportunistic and adaptable, and eats whatever foods are available.
In towns and cities, it often scavenges for food in garbage bins and congregates near restaurants and other eating establishments to feed on leftover food and crumbs.
It can perform complex tasks to obtain food, such as opening automatic doors to enter supermarkets.
Length: 14-15cm
Wingspan: 21-25.5cm
Weight: 24-38g

Gold Finch - Carduelis carduelis
The goldfinch is a highly coloured bird. The breeding male has a red face with black markings around the eyes, and a black-and-white head.
The back and flanks are buff or chestnut brown. The black wings have a broad yellow bar.
The tail is black and the rump is white. Males and females are very similar, but females have a slightly smaller red area on the face.
Sociable, often breeding in loose colonies, they have a delightful liquid twittering song.
Their long fine beaks allow them to extract otherwise inaccessible seeds from thistles and teasels.
Goldfinches can be seen anywhere there are scattered bushes and trees, rough ground with thistles and other seeding plants.
Goldfinches can be seen all year round. In winter, some migrate as far as France, Spain and Belgium. Increasingly they are visiting bird tables and feeders.
The nest is built entirely by the female and is generally completed within a week. The male accompanies the female, but does not contribute.
The nest is neat and compact, constructed of mosses and lichensand, generally located several metres above the ground, being attached to the twigs of a swaying branch with spider silk.
A deep cup nest prevents the loss of eggs in windy weather. The clutch is typically 4-6 eggs, which are whitish with reddish-brown speckles.
Length: 12cm
Wingspan: 21-25.5cm
Weight: 14-19g

Chaffinch - Fringilla coelebs
The chaffinch is one of the most widespread and abundant bird in Britian and Ireland.
The male is brightly coloured with a blue-grey cap and rust-red underparts. The female is more subdued in colouring, but both sexes have two contrasting white wing bars and white sides to the tail.
Its patterned plumage helps it to blend in when feeding on the ground and it becomes most obvious when it flies, revealing a flash of white on the wings and white outer tail feathers.
It does not feed openly on bird feeders, prefering to hop about under the bird table or under the hedge.
You'll usually hear chaffinches before you see them. The male bird has a strong voice and sings from exposed perches to attract a mate.
Males typically sing two or three different song types, and there are regional dialects also.
The female builds a nest with a deep cup in the fork of a tree. The clutch is typically 4 or 5 eggs, which hatch in about 13 days.
The chicks fledge in around 14 days, but are fed by both adults for several weeks after leaving the nest.
Outside the breeding season, chaffinches form flocks in open countryside and forage for seeds on the ground.
During the breeding season, they forage on trees for invertebrates, especially caterpillars, and feed these to their young.
Chaffinches can be seen all year round. they are on the UK conservation status as Green as they are not showing moderate or severe decline so do not fit into the orange or red categories.
Length: 14.5cm
Wingspan: 24.5-28.5cm
Weight: 18-29g

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