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Greylag Goose, Mallard, Common Pheasant, Common Swift, Common Cuckoo, Common Wood Pigeon, Common Moorhen, European Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Cetti's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, Common Reed Warbler, Eurasian Blackcap, Eurasian Wren, Song Thrush, Common Blackbird, European Robin, Dunnock, European Goldfinch, Corn Bunting, Common Reed Bunting
Grey Partridge, Common Pheasant, Greylag Goose, Mute Swan, Common Shelduck, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Common Swift, Rock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, Common Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Great Crested Grebe, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, European Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Jay, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Skylark, Barn Swallow, Common House Martin, Cetti's Warbler, Long-tailed Tit, Willow Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Eurasian Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Eurasian Wren, Common Blackbird, Song Thrush, European Robin, Dunnock, Western Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Common Chaffinch, Common Linnet, European Goldfinch, Common Reed Bunting, European Rabbit, Red Fox, Reeves's Muntjac
Common Pheasant, Canada Goose, Greylag Goose, Northern Shoveler, Mallard, Common Wood Pigeon, Common Moorhen, Great Spotted Woodpecker, European Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Cetti's Warbler, Long-tailed Tit, Willow Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Eurasian Blackcap, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren, Common Blackbird, European Robin, European Greenfinch, Common Linnet, European Goldfinch, Common Reed Bunting, Eastern Grey Squirrel, European Rabbit
Mallard, Red-legged Partridge, Grey Partridge, Common Pheasant, Common Buzzard, Northern Lapwing, Stock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Collared Dove, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Barn Swallow, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Blackcap, Common Blackbird, European Robin, Common Chaffinch, Common Linnet, Corn Bunting, European Hare, European Rabbit
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Shepreth L-moor
Very strong winds made birding difficult to say the least, but I did manage a Garden Warbler and a site tick Grey Heron.
Shepreth L-Moor05 May 2015 17:56 - 18:56
Overcast 13C 24SW
Grey Heron, Buzzard, Kestrel, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow,
Monday 5 May 2014
Local Birding
Fowlmere in the morning. Not a lot apart from a Hobby performing well. Still no Whitethroats.
Later afternoon walked around the fields in Foxton. Nothing too special. A few Lesser Whitethroats.
Early evening went for a quick walk around Shepreth L-Moor. An improvement with a fox running around and showing nicely, followed later by a Hobby chasing a House Martin for several minutes before the House Martin managed to miss the final dive by the Hobby and fly off high away.
In the garden, both Great Tits and Blue Tits are nesting in their usual places.
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Two Wrynecks at Minsmere!
I started a full day’s birding at 6:30, on my own, around Dunwich cliffs. Not a lot of migrants unfortunately in a fairly strong and cold northerly wind. Returning to the campsite to awake Tom (if that’s the right word, none of us had really slept), we went for a coffee before heading to Dunwich Heath to look for Dartford Warblers. We were later joined by Celia, David, and Eliot, who brought Sam along with them, before we all headed on to Minsmere.
Here, we all had views of the Wryneck by the visitors centre and then walked around to the North hide and the beach. It was not possible to do a full circuit as the recent rain had flooded the paths. With no waders on the flooded scrape, myself and Tom decided to carry on towards the flooded fields near the sluice whilst the others went back to the campsite.
Rather disappointingly there was little of interest and so we decided a coffee would be the best idea. However, just as we were leaving a probable Wryneck flew into an isolated bush on the sea wall. I quickly called Tom over who was carrying the scope and we got onto it. The bird was motionless and very difficult to see but was obviously a Wryneck (which had been a new bird for Tom only the day before!) I tried to get a bit closer to it in order to get a photo but it soon flushed towards the more sheltered sluice bushes below. Over the next hour and a half we managed another six very brief sightings. It responded to playback once (we had no idea if the bird was present or had headed inland) and sounded like a male.
The bird was very flighty and I’m sure it was a new arrival in-off the sea, even though I didn’t see what direction it had come from. There would have been no reason for it to be in the exposed bush on the sea wall and once in the sluice bushes remained loyal to those.
A great bird to find on an otherwise quite day but we did have time for a few nice padders on the way back: First a superb male Redstart at the start of the sea wall, and then a male Ring Ouzel and Whinchat just outside the reserve, as well as several good looking male Wheatears.
Minsmere (Includes Dunwich cliffs and Heaths)05 May 2012 06:45 - 18:23
Overcast with occasional light rain 10C 15NE
Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Barnacle Goose, Shelduck, Gadwall, Mallard, Shoveler, Tufted Duck, Red-legged Partridge, Pheasant, Cormorant,
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Foxton
A quick search in fields for any Dotterel. No joy, just a pair of Grey Partridges. Also noted five singing Corn Buntings on the wires between along Fowlmere Road. The same three Swifts were flying around the village again tonight.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Fowlmere
Rather dull:
Snipe
Lesser Whitethroat
Grey Partridge x 4 (2 heard only.)
Turtle Dove x 3 (2 heard only.)
Cetti’s Warbler (heard only.)
Monday, 5 May 2008
Yellow Wagtails
First for Britain!Ringed Plover; Little Ringed Plover; Redshank; Shelduck etc.
Temminck's Stint
Herts Tick