M.Y.N.C - Your survey stories

We're midway through the Make Your Nature Count week, hoping it's all going well for everyone! We would really love to hear how your surveys have gone and what your stars of the survey have been!

If you have not taken part just yet, you can find all you need to get involved here.

As well as all the young sparrows,starlings,blackbirds and chaffinches bumping my numbers up along with all the goldfinches the stars have got to be 2 male/1 female bullfinches that visit 5 or 6 times every day..a great sight.

And not forgetting 3 hedgehogs every night.

Donations for food gratefully received Lol

I am getting 5 house sparrows & young ones, starlings with 3 youngsters and the Blackbird family (1 chick) all eating me out of house and home about 4-5 times a day.

I was incredibly fortunate to get my first ever bullfinch to visit my garden during that hour. Perfect timing or what? I also got a few chaffinches and greenfinches plus the usual suspects - house sparrows, blackbirds, blue tits etc. Strangely, no starlings or robins this time. There are house martins nesting nearby but I didn't see any.

Fergus

We Have Pipistrelle Bats Roosting in a gap under our upstairs bay window for the 8th year running and they always turn up at the beginning of June. Great to sit out in the garden late evening and watch them flit about. We think it is a nursary roost as they usually stay for up to 10 weeks before leaving, and we have seen youngsters in the past as well as one dead baby on the ground under the window last year.

As for birds, our usual culprits, Finche's, Tits, Starlings, Dunnocks, Robins, Blackbirds and a pair of Great Spotted woodpeckers.

I did my count early this morning whilst it was nice and sunny, (Its now raining as I type), i put out fresh seed on the tables, and a big handful of live meal worms out.... i barely got back into the house alive.

I had all my usual visitors and many bought their babies for a visit, my nervous stock dove popped in, a new baby coal tit explored just about everywhere in the garden, and a few  moments before my hour was up a small mouse stopped to look at me in through the window.

Hope you can see it in between the blue tray and pot.  Please excuse the weed, i mean wild flower. ;-)