Garden bird diary - summer

Author     www.eoy.ee/aed
Estonian text posted 24.01.2020

928 birdwatchers in 524 gardens took part in the Garden Bird Summer Diary in 2019. Many thanks!

In the sixth season of the Garden Bird Summer Diary as a result of the combined efforts of diligent bird and nature watchers 27 218 observations were gathered adding to the 111 000 observations from earlier years.

The observations were grouped as follows:

• 15 493 first sightings of birds,
• 2105 breeding observation,
• 1390 observations of other vertebrates,
• 7766 phenological observations of plants and insects
• 464 observations of pollinators at 1412 plant visits  

What was memorable in the 2019 season?

Photo Eero Kiuru
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 17.09.2018

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Chiff-chaff

The weather for the weekend promised to be changeable but that cannot stop the autumn migration that proceeds at full speed. Millions of birds have already passed us and millions are still on their way to here. The time has arrived when mornings in the garden are again full of  birds and exciting!

The sun rises at about 6.45 now and that is the moment to pick up the binoculars, a hot drink and paper and pencil and settle comfortably in a garden chair. During the next couple of hours you will see and hear some twenty bird species without much bother and maybe even such that you have not met yet this year.

Photos Arne Ader
Translation Liis

Starlings on bare aspen. Matsalu

Dear garden bird observer!

With today’s notice we end this year’s seven months long Summer garden bird diary season. It is already clear that in this, the third garden bird diary year, almost one-third more garden bird observers participated and recorded more birds and nature observations than last year. Our joint effort in this is very important and necessary to illuminate the welfare of our garden birds and garden life in general.

The exact numbers and results will be announced in the course of the next couple of months after the observations have been reviewed (October) and analysed (November). When questions arise for me in the course of this I will contact the observers.