Entries tagged with “birds environment” from Palmerston Residents Association
The bird, animal and plant life in Sydenham is much more diverse than you would expect to find in a relatively urban area. The Palmerston area had, until recent times, large areas of rich habitat to support the varied flora and fauna. We are lucky to still have pockets of greenery and our resident bird population includes some rare species.
A member of our committee, carried out a bird count in his garden over the period of a few days in Winter 2006. The following is a species count of birds which are resident in his garden, birds which flew over once were not counted, although an exception was made for the Sparrowhawk which often swoops to ground when it catches something. It should be noted that this count was in the winter months so migratory species are not included.
- blue tit
- coal tit
- great tit
- long tailed tit
- goldcrest^
- wren
- robin
- blackcap (resident)
- goldfinch
- siskin
- greenfinch
- chaffinch
- bullfinch*
- pied wagtail
- house* & tree* sparrows
- dunnock ^
- starling *
- mistle^ & song thrush*
- blackbird
- collared dove
- wood pigeon
- feral pigeon (rock dove)
- magpie
- rook
- jackdaw
- hooded crow
- carrion crow
- sparrow hawk.
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