Day 19.073: UK birds - incidental

Today is my dad's actual birthday - and although we're missing that, we celebrated well for the three days we spent there.

Here are some of the birds we saw when we weren't really trying (at my sister's house and near the property where we stayed):

Eurasian jackdaw

Coal tit

European greenfinch

Eurasian blackbird

European robin

House sparrow

European goldfinch

Reed bunting

Carrion crow

African peafowl (maybe feral or effectively a farm pet)

Collared dove

Red-legged partridge

Crows in the mist

Ring-necked pheasant

Domestic chicken in the back courtyard of the house - she quickly found her way back into the next-door farm.

Also seen in this way: magpies, wood pigeons and feral pigeons, common chaffinch, 

All of the wild birds here apart from the house sparrow and feral pigeons are new for my year list and the partridge and coal tit represent their first record for my life list.