bogbumper: The old garden

Between December 2006 and November 2010, I lived in the middle of the Cambridgeshire countryside. The house had a large but unassuming-looking garden which turned out to be pretty awesome for wildlife.

In those four years, I recorded:

100 species of bird (seen in or over, or heard from the garden)
about 160 species of (mostly macro) moth (largely in summer 2010)
18 species of butterfly
15 species of dragonfly and damselfly
11 species of mammal
3 species of amphibian

Those are just the bare stats, I suppose. Some of my favourite things were:

digging a wildlife pond and having Great Crested Newts turn up within months!
watching young Barn Owls perching on the fence, just a few metres from me
Hummingbird Hawk-moths on the buddleia
visits from an assortment of Sparrowhawks
watching a silhouetted skein of Pink-footed Geese fly past a full moon (thanks for the tip-off, Mark)
a catch of 540+ moths of 61+ species on the morning of 20 July 2010 (and processing them before work)
marvelling at dragonflies dogfighting over the pond
Green Woodpeckers digging for ants in the lawn
recording Redstart, Black Redstart and Whinchat IN the garden

I could go on, blah blah blah... Anyway, you get the picture.

Here are the lists, if you like that kind of thing.

Birds