Sharpness picnic area and SARA sightings

Today I didnt go to the River Severn and see as many birds as I liked but I did see some which was good. One of the reasons was because it wasn't low tide but not high tide. Birds included

At the picnic area

• 2 redshank
• 4 herring gulls
• 1 great black backed gull
• 1 curlew
• 1 magpie
• 1 adult male blackbird
• 3 house sparrows
• 14 black headed gulls
• 2 blue tits
• 1 GOLD CREST

At SARA

• 1great crested grebe
• 2 coots
• 5 cormarants
• 1 grey heron
• 10 herring gulls
• 1 great black backed gull
• 1 male blackbird
• 40+ rooks, jackdaws and crows feeding on the mud
• 6 redshank
• 17 black headed gulls
• 20+ wigeon
• 2 mallards

By past and between picnic area and SARA

• 1 kestrel
• 30+ corvids
• 20+ wood pigeons
• 20+ ferel pigeons
• 1 male blackbird

4/11/12 home sightings

Flying over

• 12 jackdaws
• 30+ herring gulls
• 3 common gulls
• 4 black headed gulls
• 1 great black backed gull
• 14 wood pigeons
• 2 carrion crows
• 1 male blackbird- Different to ones in trees
• 30+ starlings
• 7 FIELDFARE
• 20+ REDWING
• 1 CORMARANT

Trees

                                                        Can you spot the Great tit?

                                                         A small flock of Starlings

                                          1 of the male blackbirds which came from the trees

                                                                            Goldfinches

                                                      Male chaffinch left and female right

 

• 1 robin
• 1 collard dove
• 1 carrion crow
• 3 jackdaws
• 2 great tits
• 3 magpies
• 30+ starlings
• 20+ house sparrows
• 5 gold finches
• 2 blue tits
• 2 wood pigeons
• Several different male black birds chasing each other as well as 1 female
• 2 GOLD CRESTS
• 30-40 Chaffinches

Opposite house

                                                                Starlings

                                                           Collard dove

Ferel pigeons

• 10+ ferel pigeons
• 10+ jackdaws
• 3 wood pigeons
• 2 black headed gulls
• 30+ starlings
• 1 collard dove

My Garden

Resting wood pigeon

• 5 house sparrows
• 15+ jackdaws
• 2 magpies
• 2 wood pigeons

 

 

An Autumn walk with lots of THRUSHES

Today I went on a walk down a little river which is near my house. After it rained a little bit hundreds of thrushes were in the trees in one of many fields around us.

Birds included:

                      

                                                                            Redwing

Fieldfare

• 1 common gull
• 5 herring gulls
• 30+ jackdaws
• 1 carrion crow
• 3 rooks
• 13 blue tits
• 20+ house sparrows
• 7 wood pigeons
• 1 black headed gull
• 4 great tits
• 1 female sparrowhawk
• 4 magpies
• 30+ REDWING
• 10+ FIELDFARE
• 40- 50 Black birds

3/11/12 sightings at Sand Point highlight HOOPOE

Sightings included the HOOPOE which has been around for about a week.Because Sand Point is next to the River Severn and the Bristol Channel there was several curlews and an Autumn flock of about 20 starlings which was getting scared by the curlew, at least 20 carrion crows, a lesser black backed gull and a female kestrel. In the bushes on the side by the dunes there was a flock of house sparrows which were churping next to the car park.

                                                                      Hoopoe

3/11/12 sightings

These sightings are ones which I saw before I went to Sand Point in Somerset.

Flying over

• 30+ jackdaws
• 9 carrion crows
• 30+ starlings
• Several gull spicies such as herring gulls, common gulls and a few black headed and a lesser black backed gull
• 20+ wood pigeons
• 6 rooks
• 3 buzzards
• 1 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER Heard behind the opposite houses calling in the nearby fields with a few woodlands
• 1 CORMARANT
• 9 REDWINGS
• 3 FIELDFARES

Trees

• 2 magpies
• 4 goldfinches
• 1 robin
• 1 dunnock
• 20+ starlings
• 2 great tits
• 5 blue tits
• 20+ jackdaws
• 40+ chaffinches mostly males but a few females in the flocks which flew past and landed in the trees around me.
• 2 GOLD CRESTS

Opposite houses

• 1 black headed gull
• 1 collard dove
• 15+ jackdaws
• 20+ ferel pigeons
• 20+ starlings

2/11/12 sightings

Over sightings near by

• YELLOW BROWED WARBLER at Slimbridge WWT- 3rd ever record
• 100+ PIED WAGTAILS in roost at Berkeley Heath with a fly over mistle thrush and a buzzard up Taits hill in the evening and this morning several gull species were feeding on the fields.

My sightings flying over

• 30+ jackdaws
• 1 collard dove
• 30+ starlings
• 1 herring gull
• 1 Great spotted woodpecker- 3rd in the year
• 1 pied wagtail
• 1 wood pigeon

Trees

• 3 blackbirds- The 1st winter male, the adult male and the adult female
• 2 collard doves
• 3 chaffinches
• 2 great tits
• 2 magpies
• 30+ starlings
• 5 jackdaws

Opposite house

• 5 ferel pigeons
• 10 jackdaws

Sightings for today the 1/11/12

Great sightings for the county I live in as on Tuesday there was

• A LITTLE BUNTING
• LONG TAILED DUCK
• RING OUZEL
• 1 LONG BILLED DOTWITCHER
• 1 GREAT WHITE EGRET
• 2 BITTERNS 

My sightings today Flying over

• 1 REDWING
• 2 pied wagtails
• 10+ black headed gulls
• 3 Great black backed gulls
• 30+ jackdaws

Trees

• 1 magpie
• 1 chaffinch
• 1 great tit
• 20+ starlings

Opposite house

• 5 ferel pigeons
• 4 magpies together