| December highlights - Sadly we lost the male swan to illness, the rest of the family continue to flourish. | |||||||||||||
| With the loss of summer foliage everyone is enjoying frequent sightings of the kingfisher. | |||||||||||||
| MCG Formal Bird Survey; Monthly: Follows regular route, formal results keep in Taxonomic order. (switch tabs for other years' see "Downloads" web page for annual bird reports). | |||||||||||||
| Alphabetical Order / 2024 | Totals | 10-Jan | 14-Feb | 13-Mar | 10-Apr | 08-May | 12-Jun | 10-Jul | 14-Aug | 11-Sep | 09-Oct | 13-Nov | 11-Dec |
| Barn Swallow | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Black Headed Gull | 102 | 43 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 13 | |||
| Blackbird (Common) | 126 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 10 |
| Blackcap | 22 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | ||||||||
| Blue Tit | 71 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | |
| Bullfinch (Common) | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Buzzard (Common) | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Canada Goose (Greater) | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Carrion Crow | 41 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Chaffinch | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Chiff Chaff (Common) | 44 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Coal Tit | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Collared Dove | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Common Gull | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Common Tern | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Coot (Common) | 92 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 5 | |
| Dunnock | 24 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Gadwall | 32 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 8 | ||||||||
| Garden Warbler | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Goldcrest | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Goldfinch | 73 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | |||
| Goosander | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Great Cormorant | 11 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Great Crested Grebe | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Great Tit | 68 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
| Great White Egret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Greater Spotted Woodpecker | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Greenfinch | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Grey Heron | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Grey Wagtail | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Greylag Goose | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Herring Gull | 0 | ||||||||||||
| House Martin | 9 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||||
| House sparrow | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Jackdaw (Western) | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Jay | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Kestrel (Common) | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kingfisher (Common) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Lesser Black backed Gull | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Linnet | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Little Egret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Little Grebe | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| Long Tailed Tit | 49 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16 | |
| Magpie | 71 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
| Mallard | 252 | 21 | 10 | 28 | 16 | 6 | 17 | 14 | 27 | 26 | 20 | 29 | 38 |
| Mandarin Duck | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Mistle Thrush | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Moorhen (Common) | 71 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 12 |
| Mute Swan | 68 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 |
| Nuthatch (Eurasian) | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Pied Wagtail | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Pochard | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Red Kite | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Redpoll | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Redstart | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Redwing | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Robin | 91 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| Rook | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Sand Martin | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Shoveler | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Siskin | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| Song Thrush | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Sparrow Hawk (eurasian) | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Spotted Flycatcher | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Starling (Common) | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Swift (Common) | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Tree Creeper (Eurasian) | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tufted Duck | 58 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Whitethroat (Common) | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Wigeon (Eurasian) | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Willow Warbler | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
| Whooper Swan | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Wood Pigeon | 251 | 29 | 27 | 17 | 24 | 19 | 26 | 40 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 18 |
| Wren | 80 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1848 | 270 | 176 | 134 | 148 | 130 | 196 | 151 | 103 | 104 | 70 | 187 | 181 | |