A quick count of messages to your chatline for the 50 days of November and December so far gives a total of 300.
The answer to your question is: koels 16 (although past the koel peak period). ‘Other local species, up to 3 per message’, including photos, video, were 114.
I separated ‘species trend comments’(ducks etc) - 13 (more would have been welcome, although this category is often introduced by a quick impression from a limited area). Although, to be fair, the question is usually ‘Is this just a
quick impression from a limited area?’
A category that seems to have declined is ‘location visits, including surveys’: only 19.
Against that, ‘animals (non-birds)’ were 57, the numbers boosted by ‘me-toos (sometimes invited)’, re eg foxes, flying and otherwise.
‘Out of area subjects’ were 20, reasonable enough I’d think, which is also my view of ‘external links and related comments ’ (20).
The remainder were organisational or technical (outings, equipment, books etc).
