🦋 Garden nature diary: June 2024
June 1
Regular visits from a nuthatch, gathering food and then flying back to its nest site in the woodland beyond the lane.
Jackdaw calling in flight, low over the garden.
Juvenile blue tits on the feeding station.
Adult male and juvenile great spotted woodpecker on the feeding station.
June 2
It’s usually the male but it was nice to see a female great spotted woodpecker in the garden first thing.
Hedgehog in the back garden from 9.35 p.m.
June 3
Two nuthatches on feeding station.
June 4
Adult male and juvenile great spotted woodpecker on feeding station.
June 5
Three stock doves beneath feeding station.
June 7
Two male blackbirds bring out territorial aggression but the two females are fine.
June 8
Male blackbirds again in the garden.
June 9
Five starlings in the garden (2 adults, 3 juveniles).
One male and two juvenile blackbirds.
June 11
Family group (2 adults, 3 juveniles) of starlings on the feeding station.
Very noisy flock (c.20) jackdaws passed overhead.
June 14
Four starlings (1 adult, 3 juveniles) on the feeding station.
June 15
First swallow seen from the garden this year, taking the list to 48.
In flight low over Straits estate down the western slope.
June 17
Juvenile nuthatch on both feeding station and the ground below. Taking seeds and eating them in the palm tree.
June 19
Single juvenile starling on suet pellets feeder.
June 23
Four house sparrows (2m, 2f) on feeding station.
June 28
One swift in the evening.
June 29
Sparrowhawk eating a juvenile great tit on the lawn.
A pair of stock doves below the feeding station, joined by a second pair.
June 30
Five juvenile long-tailed tits on the feeding station.