Garden Birds at Stillingfleet Lodge
We encourage birds into our garden and are delighted to have recorded over 50 species as listed below. Many of our visitors love being able to sit in the garden in spring and listen to the bird song or walk through the gardens and see garden birds on the feeders.
| Barn Owl | Mallard |
| Blackbird | Marsh Tit |
| Blackcap | Mistle Thrush |
| Blue Tit | Moorhen |
| Bullfinch | Partridge |
| Buzzard | Pheasant |
| Chaffinch | Pied Flycatcher |
| Chiffchaff | Redwing |
| Coal Tit | Reed Bunting |
| Collared Dove | Robin |
| Crow | Siskin |
| Curlew | Song Thrush |
| Dunnock | Sparrowhawk |
| Fieldfare | Spotted Flycatcher |
| Garden Warbler | Starling |
| Goldcrest | Swallow |
| Goldfinch | Swift |
| Great Tit | Tawny Owl |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Treecreeper |
| Greenfinch | Tree Sparrow |
| Heron | Willow Warbler |
| House Martin | Wood Pigeon |
| House Sparrow | Wren |
| Jackdaw | |
| Jay | |
| Kestrel | |
| Long Tailed Tit | |
| Magpie |
Bird-ringing demonstration
Once again we were able to have a bird-ringing demonstration at our Wildlife Day in 2021 and we are grateful for the birdwatching community around York for their continued supoport. On a typical day they will catch and ring about 40 different birds, with dunnocks, great tits and blue tits being the most common. In 2021, Colin Beale and his team rang 54 different individual birds, including a male blackbird that had been rung as a one year old at the Wildlife Day in 2015 – seven years is pretty impressive for a blackbird. Here is the full list of birds rung on 27 June 2021:
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The left column is the number of new birds, the central column is the number of retraps (ie the two blackbirds) and the right hand the grand total. This was a really good set of garden birds for visitors to see up close.
