As bird, insect and amphibian species appear in the garden, I’ll be keeping a census here, along with photos and observations. Dare I hope for a hedgehog?

BIRDS

I am restricting this list to birds that alight in the garden. Because Rotterdam, like the most of the Netherlands, is a place of canals and rivers, we have masses of waterbirds—gulls, geese, ducks, swans, shags, etc., etc.,—but as these tend to fly overhead rather than land in the garden*, I’m not including them.

[*That might change of course, once the frogs move in… yikes.]

Coal tit – Periparus ater

Blue tit – Cyanistes caeruleus

Great tit – Parus major

Great spotted woodpecker – Dendrocopos major

Blackbird – Turdus merula

Magpie – Pica pica

Jay – Garrulus glandarius

Robin – Erithacus rubecula

Jackdaw – Coloeus monedula

Song thrush – Turdus philomelos

Rose-ringed parakeet – Psittacula krameri  

Common wood pigeon – Columba palumbus

Rock dove – Columba livia

Eurasian collared dove – Streptopelia decaocto

House sparrow – Passer domesticus