Having crowed about seeing a Grey Wagtail visiting the pond, I’m quickly taken down a couple of notches when two correspondents point out they’ve both had them too.
So I look up the Big Garden Bird Watch results for 2009 and find that Grey Wagtails were the 45th most abundant bird recorded, seen in 1.6% of all gardens – in other words every 62nd person watching saw a Grey Wagtail in their gardens.
You might ask what took me so long!
But they’re still one of my absoulte favourite birds.
