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Big news from the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch survey results just out: the long-tailed tit has made it, for the first time in the survey's 30-year history, into the top 10. I hardly ever saw these gregarious little birds until I moved to East Dulwich

the feathered visitors to my garden. These had to be birds actually landing in my garden and not just flying over. And no cheating! Although I saw long-tailed tits in my garden last week, but not during my hour, I could NOT record them. Neither did the song

of them in the trees (this MUST be the correct collective noun for such a noisy congregation). Unlike starlings and sparrows, which stick to their own kind when they want to hang out together, this was a mixed bunch. Blue, great, and long-tailed tits were

’ve been writing this, a long-tailed tit just bobbed into that same apple tree, and a fox just popped through the gap in the fence and trotted up the muddy lawn. I’ve seen the first insect too — a harlequin ladybird. Normal service has been resumed.

humans, so spend most of the day feeding just to survive the night. Last winter was particularly hard on our birds - long tailed tits declined by a quarter and numbers of our third smallest bird - the wren - fell by 22 per cent.The best supplementary

flitting through the branches of a cherry laurel tree I looked twice. It was a goldcrest.I've never seen one hereabouts before. Apparently the recent spate of mild winters has helped their numbers increase. Who knows, maybe they'll be vying with the long-tailed

down. There are three of four long-tailed tits in next-door-but-one's pear tree. A female blackbird is scavenging for bits of left-over windfall under our apple tree. The squirrels seem thoroughly fed up with it all, and chatter angrily at each other