My Contribution To The 2021 MY Garden Birdwatch Survey

The annual MY Garden Birdwatch Survey was held this year on the 5th and 6th June, 2021. As in previous years, I did my count from my home, starting from 7:51 A.M. till 8:21 A.M.

As usual, not all the birds species around my home were accounted for - the Black Crows, for example. There's nothing much I could do as I have to follow the rules that have been laid out.

My Bird Count Results

Bird Name Count 1. Asian Glossy Starling 1 2. Olive-backed Sunbird 0 3. Common Myna 0 4. Common Tailorbird 0 5. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 2 6. Jungle Myna 2 7. Oriental Magpie Robin 6 8. Rock Pigeon 1 9. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 0 10. Spotted Dove 0 11. White-throated Kingfisher 0 12. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2 13. Zebra Dove 1 14. Pied Fantail 1 15. Pacific Swallow 1

The Last 12 Months

Some of the birding events around my neighbourhood during the last 12 months:

• This is the first time I managed to photography (and counted one too) a Pacific Swallow. There are many of them (together with Swiftlets) flying around the neighbourhoods in the mornings. But this is the first time I managed to have a good look at one.
  
  I wonder why the one that I have photograph has a white beak?

• Just like last year, there are not that many Spotted and Zebra Doves this year too. I passed by a pet shop a couple of weeks ago and saw many of these Doves being caged up. I wonder if this is the reason behind the decline in their numbers in the wild - in my neighbourhood at least.

• Counted 6 Oriental Magpie Robin this year. Some are juveniles. There is a high likelihood they that are all from within the same family.
  

• The Brahminy Kites, they are gone. I don't see them anymore these days, chased away by a flock of Black Crows, I think.

• Some Black Crows have taken up residence around my neighbourhood. I didn't see any during the count but I counted 3 yesterday evening.