Recent sightings

Berkeley park- Scott law 19/1/14

• 25+ MAGPIES- very big flock calling and congregating in just one tree
• Chaffinches
• 2 grey wagtails
• 1 reed bunting male
• 2 herring gulls
• 7 meadow pipits
• 30+ redwing
• Adult male blackbird
• Wren
  
• 21/25 magpies

Sharpness docks

 

 

• 1 cormorant
• 2 mute swans
• 1 BLACK REDSTART- my first ever and it's a female which has been around for about a week.

  
• Black redstart female

Flooded fields

 

6 grey herons

 

 

Recent pic from Slimbridge WWT on the 11/1/14

 

Bewick swans



Slimbridge WWT 2/1/14 sightings

Awful weather on the 1st so my year list was only about 10!

I went to Slimbridge and was very pleased to have seen a few Rarities.

Rushy

• Pintail
• Black headed gulls
• 4 AVOCETS- only arrived this morning and after being found once from the Zeiss, then disappearing it was great to see them together on the Rushy.

Tack Piece

• 1000+ lapwing
• 1000+ golden plover
• 1000+ dunlin
• 100+ Canada geese
• 100+ feral banacle geese
• Lots of teal
• Lots of wigeon
• Shovelers
• Greylag geese
• Pintail
• 50+ Bewick swans
• 1 GREEN WINGED TEAL- Adult male. I first sighted this bird, with other birdwatchers, at Newpassage down in South Gloucestershire and it was very distant. That was my first ever sighting. Now a few days ago the bird had gone from New Passage and had arrived at Slimbridge WWT and was still pretty distant with the other ducks.
• 40+ white fronted geese
• 20+ curlew
• 1 ruff reported but didn't see it.

Willow hide

• Normal "Garden" birds like great tit, blue tit, chaffinch, dunnock, wren and Moorhens.

Duck Decoy area

• My earliest ever CHIFFCHAFF

December Sightings

Happy New Year to everyone

December was quite a good month for birds from the garden, although the weather was sometimes horrible, we had a total of 27 species.

1. Collard dove
2. Wood pigeon
3. Feral pigeon
4. House sparrow
5. Dunnock
6. Blue tit
7. Great tit
8. Blackbird
9. Fieldfare
10. Redwing
11. Robin
12. Goldfinch
13. Chaffinch
14. Jackdaw
15. Carrion crow
16. Magpie
17. Cormorant- Had 10 fly over together on the 24th which is a new record
18. Lesser black backed gull
19. Herring gull
20. Black headed gull
21. Common gull
22. Mallard ducks
23. Great spotted woodpecker
24. Peregrine- female either chased another peregrine or some prey on the 21st
25. Buzzard
26. Sparrowhawk
27. GOLDEN PLOVER- 3 flew north together on the 28th.