Birds
200+ Fieldfare
50+ Redwing
30+ Blackbird (usually only 5 or 6)
5 Song Thrush (normally 1)
1 Tufted Duck (unusual record for my patch)
4 Bullfinch
7 Stock Dove
3 Reed Bunting
6 Yellowhammer
100+ Goldfinch (in 2 hours) + a few Chaffinch & Greenfinch.
Tawny Owl in garden woke me just before dawn :)
- Balscote Quarry
On the water/scrape today @ 11.40am were 5 Lapwing, 8 Black Headed Gull and 1 Common Gull. Great to see a Peregrine come in on a hunting flightpath and put them in the air. 23 Species noted:- Lapwing, BH Gull, Common Gull, Mallard, Peregrine, Buzzard...
- Shotover.a.m. 8th February.
3 song thrush 2 g s woodpecker 2 treecreeper 6+ bullfinch 1 stock dove 4 redpoll 4 siskin 10 l t tits 30+ chaffinch Old Marston 1 buzzard 1 sparrowhawk...
- Radley Gravel Pits/lakes 8th Feb
Wigeon,Teal,Mallard,Shoveler,Tufted duck,Pochard, 4 Little Grebe 14 Cormorant 4 Heron 60+ Gadwall 2 Red Kite 1 Buzzard 1 Water Rail (calling) 50+ Lapwing 1 Green Sandpiper 2 Common Gull 2 Stock Dove 4 Skylark 4 Song Thrush 1 Bullfinch 1 Lesser Redpoll...
- Cholsey 9th Dec
4 Arches - Cholsey Marsh - Bow Bridge - Winterbrook Cloudy 1º 1 Greylag Goose 76 Canada Goose 2 Shovelor 2 Wigeon 4 Teal 2 Tufted Duck 5 Goosander 1 Great Crested Grebe 20+ Cormorant 4 Grey Heron 10 Red Kite 4 Buzzard 1 Sparrowhawk 2 Kestrel 30+ Moorhen...
- Cholsey 24th Nov
200+ each Redwing & Fieldfare 16 Song Thrush 50+ Blackbird 5 Mistle Thrush 16 Yellowhammer 3 Lapwing 1 LBB Gull 100+ BH Gull 1 Red-leg 50+ Pheasant 2 Skylark 3 Reed Bunting 1 Green & 3 Great-spotted Woodpecker c10 Siskin 2 Bullfinch 2 Jay A few...
Birds
Cholsey, 10th Nov
200+ Fieldfare
50+ Redwing
30+ Blackbird (usually only 5 or 6)
5 Song Thrush (normally 1)
1 Tufted Duck (unusual record for my patch)
4 Bullfinch
7 Stock Dove
3 Reed Bunting
6 Yellowhammer
100+ Goldfinch (in 2 hours) + a few Chaffinch & Greenfinch.
Tawny Owl in garden woke me just before dawn :)
- Balscote Quarry
On the water/scrape today @ 11.40am were 5 Lapwing, 8 Black Headed Gull and 1 Common Gull. Great to see a Peregrine come in on a hunting flightpath and put them in the air. 23 Species noted:- Lapwing, BH Gull, Common Gull, Mallard, Peregrine, Buzzard...
- Shotover.a.m. 8th February.
3 song thrush 2 g s woodpecker 2 treecreeper 6+ bullfinch 1 stock dove 4 redpoll 4 siskin 10 l t tits 30+ chaffinch Old Marston 1 buzzard 1 sparrowhawk...
- Radley Gravel Pits/lakes 8th Feb
Wigeon,Teal,Mallard,Shoveler,Tufted duck,Pochard, 4 Little Grebe 14 Cormorant 4 Heron 60+ Gadwall 2 Red Kite 1 Buzzard 1 Water Rail (calling) 50+ Lapwing 1 Green Sandpiper 2 Common Gull 2 Stock Dove 4 Skylark 4 Song Thrush 1 Bullfinch 1 Lesser Redpoll...
- Cholsey 9th Dec
4 Arches - Cholsey Marsh - Bow Bridge - Winterbrook Cloudy 1º 1 Greylag Goose 76 Canada Goose 2 Shovelor 2 Wigeon 4 Teal 2 Tufted Duck 5 Goosander 1 Great Crested Grebe 20+ Cormorant 4 Grey Heron 10 Red Kite 4 Buzzard 1 Sparrowhawk 2 Kestrel 30+ Moorhen...
- Cholsey 24th Nov
200+ each Redwing & Fieldfare 16 Song Thrush 50+ Blackbird 5 Mistle Thrush 16 Yellowhammer 3 Lapwing 1 LBB Gull 100+ BH Gull 1 Red-leg 50+ Pheasant 2 Skylark 3 Reed Bunting 1 Green & 3 Great-spotted Woodpecker c10 Siskin 2 Bullfinch 2 Jay A few...