Recent Garden highlights.

Wednesday 20th

Flying over

• 4+ redwing flew over between 6:15- 7:35
• 35+ redwing over Berkeley town centre
• 3 fieldfare
• 300+ gulls- mostly common and black headed
• 1 peregrine ad

Friday 22nd

Flying over town centre

• 90+ wood pigeons
• 30+ redwing
• 2 fieldfare

Saturday 23rd

Flying over

• Corvids including 2 ravens
• Starlings
• Chaffinches
• 60+ fieldfare- more fieldfare than redwing today over
• 40+ redwing
• 1 Peregrine- briefly circled gaining height distantly before scaring everything as it flew high south.
• 1 CURLEW- A garden first. Heard calling distantly twice before it flew North and over the house.

Trees

• 1 fieldfare- briefly
• 1 great spotted woodpecker- adult. Sighted feeding on the bare tree before being scared by corvids but later sighted flying towards the tree over the houses but did a U turn and headed back north.
• Common birds such as
• Blue tit pair
• Great tit
• Collard doves
• Starlings
• Corvids
• Chaffinches
• Gold finches

 Great spotted woodpecker (male?)

 in nice plumage with starlings

Collard dove in garden this morning