Garden Wildlife Quiz

Tommo's got the day off and part of his garden fence has blown down. Which of course has inspired another quiz.............

Can you name the following regular visitors to tommo's garden ?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
and - apart from the obvious snails - this not-so-welcome visitor ?
14.

One point for each. Good luck !

[petem]

1 Blackbird
2 Blue Tit
3 Bullfinch
4 Great Tit
6 Sparrow
7 Ringed Dove
8 Pigeon
9 Magpie
11 Robin
12 Thrush
13 Starling

Great opening innings from Pete.
Ringed or Collared Dove are the same thing I suppose, and I would have said Wood Pigeon. Both are greedy b*st*rds, I know that !
No.3 isn't actually a Bullfinch but it is a finch of sorts, so half-point for that one. All the others are spot-on.

Leader:
[glow=red,2,300]Petem 10.5pts [/glow]

3,5,10 and 14 left to get.

[Lord Cheeky]

3) Goldfinch
5) Yellowhammer
10) Siskin
14) Lily beetle

[Lord Cheeky]

5) Greenfinch

Good save, Lord Cheeky, you've picked up all of the last four with a successful second stab at number 5.
The Yellowhammer is a much more slender bird and a lot rarer to gardens. Wish I could say the same about the pesky lily beetle which hides under the flower while it gnaws away at the plant without you noticing.

Final result:

1. Petem 10.5pts
2. Lord Cheeky 4pts

To celebrate the successful reconstruction of tommo's garden fence - with concrete posts this time ::) - he is taking the unprecedented step of resurrecting a quiz - this one on garden birds.

So, look at the pictures 1 to 13 again, and I am going to give you the Latin names for them.

All you have to do is mix and match the letter to the number, as the names are given in a random (alphabetical) order.

a Carduelis Carduelis
b Carduelis Chloris
c Carduelis Spinus
d Columba Palumbus
e Erithacus Rubecula
f Parus Caeruleus
g Parus Major
h Passer Domesticus
i Pica Pica
j Streptopelia Decaocto
k Sturnus Vulgaris
l Turdus Merula
m Turdus Philomelos

So - another 13 points up for grabs.

Points earned so far on this particular quiz have been transferred into this year's table.

1. Petem 10.5pts
2. Lord Cheeky 4pts

[Lord Cheeky]

a)=3
b)=5
c)=10
d)=8
e)=11
f)=2
g)=4
h)=6
i)=9
j)=7
k)=13
l)=1
m)=12

Blimey ! That didn't take long.
A full set of answers there to Lord Cheeky.

I thought those would be difficult: when I did Latin at school, I could translate English into Latin successfully, but was hopeless at translating Latin back into English.

Quiz ended (again) :

1. Lord Cheeky 17pts
2. Petem 10.5pts

[Lord Cheeky]

I knew my old bird watching books would come in handy for something :-)