29/9/13 Garden sightings

Much quieter than the 28th with minimal birds seen.

Opposite houses

• Normal feral pigeons
• Corvids
• Starlings
• 10+ wood pigeons
• Collard Doves

Trees

• Starling flock
• Corvids
• House sparrows
• 1 Chiffchaff- Yet again in song but only sighted in the morning and as it came out nice in the afternoon it probably continued on it's migration South.

Flying over

• Gulls
• 2 buzzards
• 1 female sparrowhawk
• 2 linnets- females

Other sightings

• 4 redwing- 1st of the year in Gloucestershire sighted at Sharpness  so hopefully they will be seen soon in a week flying over in the day and the night as they, as with many other migrants, are nocturnal migrants.
• 8 Redwing- Painswick beacon
• 1 COMMON CRANE- Unringed wild individual which has been around for a week or two now
• 1 RICHARD'S PIPIT- Lydney 1st in Gloucestershire since probably 2004 and an amazing find although frustratingly just over the river.