2010 Garden Birdwatch
This year the numbers of participants nationally was down slightly (around 530,000 people sent in records), but in Woodcote we increased the number of gardens recorded from 7 to 12! The number of species recorded in the village - 26 - was one fewer than last year.
The Woodcote list in terms of the number of gardens in which each species was seen is as follows (the total number of individual birds noted is indicated in brackets after the species’ name):
FIRST (seen in all 12 gardens)
Robin (total of 22 individuals)
SECOND EQUAL (11 gardens)
Blackbird (34)
Blue tit (43)
Chaffinch (54)
FIFTH (10 gardens)
Woodpigeon (21)
SIXTH (9 gardens)
Great tit (15)
SEVENTH (8 gardens)
Dunnock (15)
EIGHTH (7 gardens)
Song thrush
NINTH EQUAL (6 gardens)
House sparrow (11)
Goldfinch (11)
ELEVENTH EQUAL (5 gardens)
Coal tit (9)
Long-tailed tit (20)
Magpie (13)
Nuthatch (6)
FIFTEENTH EQUAL (3 gardens)
Greenfinch (5)
Carrion crow (7)
Starling (7)
Bullfinch (4)
Wren (3)
TWENTIETH EQUAL (2 gardens)
Great-spotted woodpecker (2)
Blackcap (3)
Collared dove (3)
Rook (3)
TWENTY-FIFTH EQUAL (1 garden)
Goldcrest (1)
Feral pigeon (2)
Green woodpecker (1)
As last year, Woodcote continues to differ from the national picture in the relative scarcity in the village of House Sparrows (first nationally, but ninth equal here), Starlings (third nationally, but fifteenth equal in Woodcote, and Collared Doves (ninth nationally, twentieth equal in Woodcote). For the 2010 national results, click here.