Garden Birds

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Slimbridge WWT Sightings 9/12/12

Lots of sightings due to the flooded fields and there was some great wader displays when all the waders were in the air and then a perigrene flew under making the waders spooked and the ducks alert.

Tack piece sightings

6 redshanks

Pochard male

lapwing front with lots of golden plovers

10 bewick swans
20+ shovelers
41 pintails
20 mallard ducks
40+ teals
100+ wigeons
1 buzzard
1 perigrene
40+ black headed gulls chasing the dunlin because of food
1 great black backed gull
3 herring gulls
200+ lapwings
100+ golden plovers
60+ black tailed godwits
200+ dunlin
20+ pochards
90+ curlews
1 LONG BILLED DOTWICHER was breifly sighted flying over with the black tailed godwits
90 redshank
1 grey heron
Several canada geese
A few greylag geese
Lots of corvids

Garden birds from the feeder hide (Tack peice)

Winter adult male chaffinch

Jackdaw

30+ chaffinches
4 mallards
4 cormarants flew over
17 canada geese
1 great spotted woodpecker
20+ blue tits
10+ great tits
1 robin
40+ jackdaws
4 adult bewick swans flew over

Road fields

4 bewick swans with lapwings

16 bewick swans
20 white fronted geese
200+ lapwing
1 female sparrowhawk
1 carrion crow
40+ rooks

Zeiss hide

Bittern

30+ mallards
lots of corvids
30+ lapwings
3 pintails
20 pochards
1 Bittern very hard to see in the reedbeds
1 Cettis warbler heard from the reeds

WAXWINGS at Bradley Stoke (Bristol area)

Some great sightings of the 35+ WAXWINGS which have arrived at the Tesco Extra this winter due to the influx. There have been other sightings of waxwings throughout Bristol and there have been some great photos on http://avonbirding.blogspot.co.uk/

An indvidual

9 waxwings

Most of the big flock
Other sightings

12 wood pigeons
1 pied wagtail

Thursday, 6 December 2012

This weeks bird sightings from the garden.

Lots of:

Goldfinches
Chaffinches
House sparrows
5 blackbirds
Gulls flew over everyday
Blue and great tits have been heard and seen.
Jackdaws
Rooks
Carrion crows
Magpies have been seen all week
Also a JAY was sighted down the road.
Redwing
Fieldfares have been seen feeding and flying over the berry bush 2.

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Sharpness 2/12/12 sightings

SARA

Common Gull

Grey heron

50+ black headed gulls
10 common gulls
20 herring gulls
A few lesser and greater black backed gulls
30+ chaffinches
5 gold finches
1 robin
20+ blue tits
8 cormarants
5 wigeons
2 mallards
2 mute swans
5 wood pigeons
5 redshanks
2 grey herons
1 Bull Finch- 1st sighting this winter
1 Nuthatch- feeding on the feeder

Picnic area

White wagtail

A few black headed gulls
2 great black backed gulls
1 robin
1 wood pigeon
1 white wagtail my first ever sighting here

My 2/12/12 garden sightings

25 different bird species sighted today and there was:
Flying over

1 peregrine
1 little egret
50+ jackdaws
15 rooks
15 carrion crows
20 black headed gulls
2 adult male blackbirds
30+ redwing
15+ fieldfare
3 house sparrows
50+ starlings
3 magpies
10+ common gulls
70+ wood pigeons
2 collard doves
1 pied wagtail
20+ feral pigeons
4 lesser black backed gulls
2 green finches

Trees

Robin

Redwing

Starling

10 gold finches
2 green finches
40+ house sparrows
2 robins
30+ chaffinches
2 dunnocks
30+ blue tits
10 great tits
50+ starlings
9 wood pigeons
25+ jackdaws
3 magpies
30+ redwings
2 fieldfares
9 blackbirds- 2 adult males, 2 adult females and 5 1st winter male blackbirds
1 wren

Garden

2 different robins chasing each other
8 starlings
1 wood pigeon
7 jackdaws
2 different adult male blackbirds

Opposite house

1 pied wagtail
30+ feral pigeons
20+ starlings
30+ jackdaws
1 common gull
3 black headed gulls
5 wood pigeons
2 collard doves
9 house sparrows

Saturday, 1 December 2012

My 1/12/12 Slimbridge WWT sightings

Rushy

A bewick swan with a male pintail

Male pintail

A bewick family with a canada goose, a greylag and a few ducks

A male pintail, a female pochard, a female mallard and shelduck

A male pochard, a bewick swan and 3 tufted ducks

10 bewick swans, tufted ducks, 2 canada geese and a few mallards

7 bewick swans, shelducks, tufted ducks,
mallards and a greylag goose

60+ Bewick swans
4 mute swans
40+ pintails
40+ pochards
Lots of greylags and canda geese flew in
20+ Lapwing
40+ black headed gulls
100+ Jackdaws flew over
50+ rooks flew over
Lots of other gulls
30+ tufted ducks
40+ mallards

Tack piece

Wigeon on flooded field

Black headed gulls with dnlin and a black tailed godwit

2 bewick swans, a shoveler and a few other ducks

Black headed gulls, black tailed godwits and dunlin

13 dunlin and 3 black headed gulls

A big scare with a big flock of wigeon (back)
Dunlin, lapwing and black headed gulls flying (infront)

black headed gulls, lapwing and lots of dunlin

A small flock of white fronted geese

Black tailed godwits flying

10+ bewick swans
100+ dunlin
100+ black tailed godwits
The long billed dotwichers still here but I didn't see it today
50+ redshanks
Lots of black headed gulls and other species
250+ wigeon
30+ pochards
150+ lapwings
Curlew
3 wood pigeons
90+ White fronted geese
Several gadwall and tufted ducks
40+ mallards

1/12/12 garden sightings with the first ever BRAMBLING

26 different birds sighted today

Trees

Adult male BRAMBLING

Starling

Adult male chaffinch

Adult male blackbird

male chaffinch

The 3rd fieldfare in the berry bush

Adult female blackbird

1st winter male infront of the adult blackbird

Another adult male blackbird

Adult female blackbird

A female chaffinch with a strange blue beak

30+ redwing
1 fieldfare
15+ blackbirds- 2 adult females, 4 adult males, 2 1st winter males
2 robins
30+ starlings
30+ house sparrows
30+ jackdaws
1 magpie
2 collard doves
3 wood pigeons
2 carrion crows
2 dunnocks
10+ great tits
10+ blue tits
1 wren
5 gold finches
20+ chaffinches
2 coal tits have been sighted in several places in the town and they've been calling to each other everywhere
1 BRAMBLING first ever sighting for the trees.