29/11/12 and the 30/11/12 garden sightings

No sightings on the 30th exept from a few redwing and corvids as I had to go out all day which in the time I saw lots of species of gulls but no rare gulls and lots of species of corvids.

29/11/12 sightings

                                                                                Female blackbird

                                                                               Redwing

                                                                           Female chaffinch

                                                                        Great tit

                                              A 1st winter male and an adult male blackbird

                                                                       1st winter male blackbird

                                                             3 of the blackbirds

Chaffinch

• 30+ Redwing flew over and was feeding in the 2nd berry bush
• 10+ Blackbirds- 4 1st winter adult males, 2 adult males and an adult female in the trees and even a few roosted throughout the night.
• 2 Gold crests in the trees
• Several house sparrows
• 30+ Starlings
• 30+ Jackdaws
• A few carrion crows
• 10 rooks
• 1 robin
• 30+ blue tits
• 20+ great tits
• several gull species
• 1 Female sparrowhawk almost killed an adult male male in the 1st berry bush but she was too quick for any photos
• 15+ chaffinches
• 3 gold finches flew over
• A few collard doves
• Lots of wood pigeons flew
• 0 ferel pigeons sighted in the time I was outside
• 4 Magpies

The 30 minute Autumn walks sightings on the 28th

Today the walk was a little later and as a result I saw the starlings preforming their Autumn roost. There was roughly 50- 70 birds but it wasn't the best as 2010 when there was 250- 300 taking to the skies.

Sunset photos

                                            Oldbury Power station in the background
Other birds sighted:

• 1 cormarant
• 20+ redwings
• 10 fieldfares
• 8 great tits
• 2 gold crests
• 10 blue tits
• 15+ blackbirds
• The 50- 70 starlings
• A few wood pigeons
• 10 house sparrows

The 26th- 28th quick sightings from the garden

Flying over:

• 50+ Redwing
• 100+ wood pigeons
• 10+ Fieldfare
• Several blackbirds
• 3 house sparrows
• 1 cormarant
• Lots of gulls
• 1 pied wagtial
• 40+ jackdaws
• 30+ rooks
• 30+ carrion crows

Trees

• 40+ starlings
• 3 wood pigeons
• 2 collard doves
• 40+ jackdaws
• 2 carrion crows
• 3 magpies
• A few chaffinches
• A few blue and great tits
• 1 robin
• Several male and only 1 female blackbird (3 males and a female together on the 28th)
• 30+ house sparrows
• 2 dunnocks
• 10+ gold finches
• 30- 40 redwings

Opposite house

• 40+ starlings
• 4 magpies
• 40+ jackdaws
• A few carrion crows
• 15+ ferel pigeons

Garden sightings on the 25/11/12

With 28 different species of birds sighted today throughout the rain with a few times the sun came out it was good to hear all of them and to see them. Hopefully a brambling turns up in the holly tree because there is hundreds which winter in Britian each year and it would be a good sight.
  
Tree sightings:

                                                                               Female chaffinch

                                                                     Brambling or chaffinch

                                                                         Adult male blackbird

                                                                            Redwing

                                                                               Female blackbird

                                                                                Redwing

                                                                            Gold crest

                                                                             Redwing

                                                              1st winter male blackbird

                                                                           Redwing

                                                Female chaffinch (Top) and male (Bottom)

                                                                                Blue tit

                                                                                Gold finch

                                                                         Starling

                                                                      Redwing

• 30+ jackdaws
• 2 carrion crows
• 3 magpies
• 20+ chaffinches
• 6 green finches
• 15+ gold finches
• 30+ house sparrrows
• 2 dunnocks
• 1 robin
• 40+ starlings
• 20+ great tits
• 25+ blue tits
• 4 wood pigeons
• 2 collard doves
• 30+ Redwings
• 12+ Blackbirds- 4 adult males, 1 adult females and 7 1st winter males which was a small amount as lots flew in and out of the trees.
• 1 Gold crests
• 1 Blackcap- female

Opposite house

• 20+ ferel pigeons
• 10 wood pigeons
• 3 collard doves
• 1 house sparrow
• 2 male blackbirds
• 30+ jackdaws
• 1 carrion crow
• 30+ starlings

Flying over

                                                            5 of the 8 mallard ducks

                                                           lesser black backed gull

• 30+ starlings
• 30+ jackdaws
• 10 carrion crows
• 10 rooks
• A few house sparrows
• The green finches from the trees and more
• 20+ gold finches
• A few chafinches
• 2 pied wagtials
• 1 lesser black backed gull
• 50+ common gulls
• A few herring gulls
• 15+ black headed gulls
• 40+ redwing
• 20+ fieldfares
• 3 cormarants
• 8 mallard ducks
• 40+ LAPWINGS were flying together in a big flock.

Garden

                                                                         Starlings

                                                                             Jackdaws

                                                                       Starlings

                                                                    Wood pigeon

                                                                          Robin

                                                  4 of the 6 wood pigeons together

                                                       House sparrow and a starling

                                                            The colours of a wood pigeon

                                                   A magpie (front) and jackdaw behind

Wood pigeons

 

Lots of garden sightings today and 7 different types of birds which isn't the highest but the hightest was 8 different species of birds on the 1/5/12.  

• 1 robin
• 10+ jackdaws
• 1 magpie
• 4 starlings
• 1 collard dove
• 6 wood pigeon together- record
• 4 house sparrows

Other non bird news

• 1 unidentified Butterfly species
• 1 Unidentified bee species

Other Rare bird sightings

• Waxwings in several places in Hereford Gloucestershire and Glomorgan
• The Long billed dotwichers still at Slimbridge WWT
• The 1st winter Grey phalarope has been sighted again for its 3rd day
• A ring necked duck has been sighted at Chew Valley Lake (Somerset)
• The Yellow browed warbler has been heard and seen again at Oldbury Power Station

A walk in the floods around the town and bird sightings on the 25/11/12

After lots of rain over this week and the weekend lots of the fields around the town have been flooded. Some of the main roads have also been flooded because we have 4 rivers around us and all of them have flooded.
When we went on the walk there was a lot of birds sighted partly because of the houses in the town as well as the flooded fields.

                                                              Flood photos
Bird sightings:

                                                                     Male kestrel

                                                                            Adult male blackbird

                                                           The rare Nuthatch

                                                                      12 canada geese  

• 30+ jackdaws
• 30+ carrion crows
• 30+ rooks
• 3 magpies playing together around the flooded river
• 300+ gulls feeding in the floods. Birds included herring, black headed, common and a few lesser black backed gulls
• 20+ house sparrows
• 15+ blackbirds which were sighted on the autumn walk which was included in the walk.
• 1 male kestrel
• 2 buzzards
• 2 dunnocks
• 30+ wood pigeons
• 5 collard doves
• 15+ gold finches
• A few green finches
• 30+ blue tits
• 25+ great tits
• 4 pied wagtail's feeding around the river and the pools of water
• A few territorial robins calling in several trees
• 100+ chaffinches- everywhere, feeding in several gardens and flying around the trees near the rivers
• 1 raven flew over the flooded fields
• 12 Canada geese- the geese from Berkeley power station have flown in land and landed on a very flooded river which they aren't usually sighted here. 
• 40+ Fieldfares
• 40+ Redwings
• 2 Gold crests calling together
• 1 Nuthatch feeding in a garden which usually gets a lot of thrushes in the trees.The nuthatch normally feeds and breeds in the forests but in the winter a few move from the woods to the gardens