Birdithology

Debbie has become a bird watcher! It makes the local dog-walking more interesting: we saw a nuthatch, goldfinches, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, robins, song thrushes, starlings, crows, blackbirds, collared doves and wood pigeons in the park yesterday, and today we had a trip out to the coast and saw a redshank, oyster catchers, and a whole bunch of assorted other unidentifiable birds... we'll have to get the book out! Can anyone tell Debbie what these are? Is that a linnet or a twite or a garden warbler or what? And are those snow buntings? [PS: thanks to Dave Emley for the identification: they are snow buntings but that's a stonechat.]

Here are a couple of easier-to-recognise little birdles from Brereton country park, where we stopped off en-route to the Wirral today (a nuthatch and a robin, or I'm no birdologist at all!).