You can never have enough...

[kiwimade64]

lol OHH, he's had prostrate cancer...

OMG trying to count waxeyes is near impossible lol. They are so quick but by my estimation there are at least 28 of them. Fifteen were at the feeding station, the rest tucked into the camelia and other trees cleaning their beaks or trying to stay warm. Three welcome swallows, only six sparrows, seven starlings, 1 hawk, two magpies, one rock pigeon, a kotare/kingfisher and the long tailed cuckoo is somewhere as I heard him. There's a pair of blackbirds and thrush as well. Not too shabby for a winter garden on a very busy main road. We were surprised at the lack of sparrows though. There would have been more magpies, but the pest controller caught most of them last winter and our tree falling over meant the remainder couldn't roost here. Over the years it was countless sparrows and very few waxeyes. It's too early for the finches and the odd yellowhammer so I can't count them. When we first moved here there were only sparrows, so we are very proud to have this bird life now.