Recent garden sightings

Snow fell on the 23rd/3/13

Highlights flying over

• 2 mallards
• 2 canada geese
• 1 buzzard
• 1 perigrene
• 1 female sparrowhawk
• 5 redwing
• 1 little egret

Garden highlights

• House sparrows
• collard doves
• Wood pigeons
• Chaffinches
• wrens
• Starlings
• Jackdaws

Berkeley shore sightings on the 24/3/13

• 2 redshank
• 2 oystercatchers
• 10+ dunlin
• 2 canada geese
• 12 shelducks
• 2 curlews
• 2 mute swans
• 3 mallards
• No Whetear or swallow past through between the Power station and the farm (south) although 3 whetears at Oldbury Power station

Other highlights

• 2 short eared owls at Slimbridge WWT on the
• 1 imm male goshawk at Slimbridge WWT on the
• 1 chiffchaff at the Little river avon (Between Ham and Berkeley) on the
• 2 little egrets at Berkeley Castle entrance on the 23/3/13
• 4 grey herons at Berkeley Castle entrance on the 23/3/13
• 4 little ringed plovers at Slimbridge WWT on the 23/3/13 (1st ever sighting)

Other garden hopes

• 1st swallow of the year for me in 2012 was at Aust Warth from Moterway on the 1/4/12.
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