I often feel as if the garden birds make a special effort to show themselves at the start of a new year: 48 different species recorded this month! There are probably others that pay the garden a visit that I do not see. As with so much in nature, it is a case of being in the right place at the right time. So it is that although I have recorded two more bird species than I did last January, a significant number were not on that list – and several from there are not on this one.
The bright sun and high temperatures were not conducive to sitting patiently outside with camera in hand, so most of the photographs in this post come from my archives. Two exciting visitors for me have been an African Firefinch – I have not recorded one here for at least twenty years –…
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