Among the regulars of the garden in winter and especially if you have provided them with seeds, there are:
- the tits, the great and the blue,
- the house sparrow,
- the redbreast,
- the chaffinch,
- Robin,
- the greenfinch (whose population shows a worrying decline),
- the speckled accent that the profane eye confuses with the sparrow despite its gray collar …
And then there are the winterers
As J-Michel Passerault of the Deux-Sèvres Ornithological Group says:
- the more colorful finch that comes from the north,
- the black tit, smaller than our regular feeders,
- and the very recognizable core breaker Grosbec which hunts everyone when it comes to feed.
Each of us can help assess this entire population:
- in Vienne on vienne.lpo.fr
- and in Deux-Sèvres in nature79.org.
And wherever you are: naturalist on your smartphone.
Thank you Jean-Michel Passerault for the name predestined to love birds.