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World Ticks
2013  
Great Blue Turaco
Yellow-billed Turaco
Brown Nightjar
African Finfoot
Cassin's Honeybird
Brown Illadopsis
Pale-breasted Illadopsis
Blackcap Illadopsis
Puvel's Illadopsis
Rufous-winged Illadopsis
White-tailed Alethe
Olive Sunbird
Tiny Sunbird
Red-fronted Antpecker
1999  
Besra
Speckled Piculet
Fowlmere Ticks
2011  
Common Redstart
Foxton Ticks
2023  
Northern Shoveler
Common Redshank
Garden Ticks
2007  
Grey Partridge

Tuesday, 2 April 2024

Friday, 2 April 2021

Foxton
Cloudy 8C 14NE

Red-legged Partridge, Rock Dove, Stock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Collared Dove, Northern Lapwing, Black-headed Gull, Common Buzzard, European Green Woodpecker, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Northern Raven, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Skylark, Eurasian Wren, Common Starling, Common Blackbird, House Sparrow, Dunnock, White Wagtail, Common Linnet, European Goldfinch, Yellowhammer, European Hare

Thursday, 2 April 2020

Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Fowlmere Road
Overcast 5C 5SW

Red-legged Partridge, Common Pheasant, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Hen Harrier, Common Buzzard, European Golden Plover, Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Magpie, Rook, Eurasian Skylark, Eurasian Wren, Dunnock, Corn Bunting, European Hare
Sunday, 2 April 2017

Foxton Sewage Works
Patchy cloud 15C 6NW

Mallard, Common Pheasant, Grey Heron, Common Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Stock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, European Green Woodpecker, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Skylark, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Wren, Common Starling, Common Blackbird, European Robin, Dunnock, White Wagtail, Common Chaffinch, European Goldfinch, Common Reed Bunting, Brimstone, Orange Tip, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Comma

Foxton
Overcast 15C 6NW

Red-legged Partridge, Grey Partridge, Common Pheasant, Common Buzzard, Stock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Skylark, Long-tailed Tit, Common Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren, Common Starling, Common Blackbird, Fieldfare, European Robin, House Sparrow, Dunnock, White Wagtail, Common Chaffinch, European Greenfinch, European Goldfinch, Corn Bunting, Yellowhammer, Common Reed Bunting, European Hare
Saturday, 2 April 2016

Amwell
Patchy cloud 12C 14SW

Greylag Goose, Gadwall, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Eurasian Teal, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Great Cormorant, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, Common Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Northern Lapwing, Common Redshank, Black-headed Gull, European Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Rock Dove, Stock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Cetti's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Wren, Common Starling, Common Blackbird, European Robin, Common Reed Bunting, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock
Thursday, 2 April 2015

Fowlmere
Cloudy 9C 6NW

Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mallard, Eurasian Teal, Common Pheasant, Common Buzzard, Water Rail, Common Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Common Wood Pigeon, Western Barn Owl, European Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Jay, Eurasian Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Wren, Common Blackbird, European Robin, Dunnock, Meadow Pipit, Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Common Linnet, Yellowhammer, Common Reed Bunting, Brimstone

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Ankasa


Striated Heron, Congo Serpent-Eagle, African Finfoot (pair), Black Crake (1), African Jacana, Great Blue Turaco, Yellow-billed Turaco (1), Brown Nightjar (1), Cassin's Spinetail, Swift, Little Swift, Shining-blue Kingfisher (1), Woodland Kingfisher, White-throated Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, Black Dwarf Hornbill, African Pied Hornbill, Naked-faced Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Cassin's Honeyguide (1), Fire-crested Alethe (1), Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher, Slender-billed Greenbul, Swamp Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul (1), Icterine Greenbul (1), Blackcap Illadopsis (1), Rufous-winged Illadopsis (1), Puvel's Illadopsis (1), Pale-breasted Illadopsis (1), Brown Illadopsis (1), Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush (1), Collared Sunbird, Eastern Olive Sunbird (2), Tiny Sunbird, Red-vented Malimbe, Crested Malimbe, Red-fronted Antpecker, Red-legged Sun Squirrel (1)

Ankasa
Anksa
Monday, 2 April 2012

Fowlmere
Cloudy 13C 9W

Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mallard, Eurasian Teal, Common Pheasant, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Water Rail, Common Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Northern Lapwing, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, European Green Woodpecker, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Cetti's Warbler, Long-tailed Tit, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Blackcap, Eurasian Wren, Eurasian Treecreeper, Common Starling, Common Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, European Robin, White Wagtail, Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Common Linnet, European Goldfinch, Common Reed Bunting

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Redstart

A brief early morning visit to Fowlmere produced little though the Little Grebe was seen for the first time! I returned early evening (after seeing numerous Brimstones locally and the year’s first Swallow over the garden) to be told that a Redstart was on the Guilder Brook.  I soon found it (a male), along with a Swallow, at Least thirty-four Linnets, five Teal, and about twenty Sand Martins.

Friday, 2 April 2010

Yet more Crossbills

Again at the Lodge for a few hours from midday. More Crossbills, a Brambling (heard only), a possible Tree Pipit, and two Buzzards (one extremely pale bird with white UTCs.)

Fowlmere last thing was so so quiet, though earlier there were still about fifty Golden Plovers at Trumpington.

Monday, 2 April 2007

Garden
Bright and sunny

Grey Partridge x 2 over

Fowlmere

Sedge Warbler?
Tortoiseshell - several
Peacock - several
Sunday, 2 April 2006

Amwell
Sunny, very strong south-westerly, heavy showers

Green Sandpiper
House Martin
Little Ringed Plover
Cetti's Warbler - heard

Garden

Brimstone
Saturday, 2 April 2005

M6 Toll Road for Belted
Kingfisher at Miltford, Staffordshire

Foggy
Barn Owl - c.5am
Wednesday, 2 April 2003

Amwell
Sunny, but with a cold wind

Redshank
Ringed Plover
Sunday, 2 April 2000

Amwell

Ringed Plover - pair
Swallow
Gargany -
Wigeon x 28