24/10/12 sightings

Yesterday at Slimbridge WWT there was an amazing number of migrants they counted. They counted 17535 and that didnt include any non migrants including the LONG BILLED DOTWICHER which they've had for almost 100 days.

Sightings at home
Flying over:

• Lots of herring and common gulls flying low and high
• A few blck headed gulls with the common gulls
• 5 wood pigeons
• 5 feral pigeons
• 1 female blackbird- possibly the female from yesterday
• 13 chaffinches
• 5 house sparrows
• 5 pied wagtails
• 30+ starling- in one flock
• 37REDWING- A small influx
• 7 FIELDFARE
• 2 SWALLOWS- A common summer migrant which should be migrating back to Africa
• 1 common buzzard was getting mobbed by several jackdaws
• lots of jackdaw and only 1 carrion crow
• A few flocks of goldfinches flew over the trees

Trees

                                                                          Blue tit

Male chaffinch

• 4 chaffinchess
• 2 robins
• 2 male blackbirds- possibly ones from yesterday
• 1 jackdaw
• 4 magpies- Together
• 5 great tits
• 7 blue tits
• 13 goldfinches
• 10+ house sparrows
• 15-20 starlings

Garden

Jackdaws

• 3 magpies
• 4 jackdaws