This weekend the RSPB are asking people to count birds in their gardens as part of a national survey. The winter has been mild so far.  I have read newspaper reports suggesting that as a result birds have not needed to come to gardens for emergency food and that could skew the RSPB survey results.  There are lots of  birds about in Abingdon, but not many come to our garden, but then we have a cat, and so don’t feed them.

None of these birds were seen in our garden. The chaffinch was near the River Ock.

A blackbird was nearby.

Two magpies in the Abbey Gardens.

Robins are to be heard at regular intervals along the Ock Valley Walk and the Abbey Mill Stream.

This Kingfisher did not stop long enough for me to get a clear shot but it did rest for a moment by the River Ock before speeding low along the river.