Sunday 6 May 2018

Earlswood all-dayer - Spring 2018

Team Earlswood recorded a total of 64 bird species on patch yesterday. It was a sunny, hot day with little cloud or wind, and lots of human disturbance in the usual areas, so certainly not an ideal day for picking up migrants. Highlights included our first Whinchat and Yellowhammer of the year, whilst 4 male Reed Bunting was a good count.

Some common species were notable by their absence, but 64 is actually not our worst total: previous spring all-dayers at Earlswood have finished on 56 species in 2015, 77 species in 2016 and 65 species last year. Many thanks to John Bishop, Chris Charles, Jon Chidwick, Janet James, John Oates, Joe Owen, John Sirrett and Jim Winsper for their contributions. Also many thanks to John Sirrett for putting together the following list of species recorded, in alphabetical order:

  1. Black-headed Gull
  2. Blackbird
  3. Blackcap
  4. Blue Tit
  5. Bullfinch
  6. Buzzard
  7. Canada Goose
  8. Carrion Crow
  9. Chaffinch
  10. Chiffchaff
  11. Coal Tit
  12. Collared Dove
  13. Coot
  14. Cormorant
  15. Cuckoo
  16. Dunnock
  17. Feral Pigeon
  18. Goldcrest
  19. Goldfinch
  20. Great Crested Grebe
  21. Great Spotted Woodpecker
  22. Great Tit
  23. Green Woodpecker
  24. Greenfinch
  25. Grey Heron
  26. Greylag Goose
  27. Herring Gull
  28. House Sparrow
  29. Jackdaw
  30. Jay
  31. Kestrel
  32. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  33. Lesser Whitethroat
  34. Linnet
  35. Long-tailed Tit
  36. Magpie
  37. Mallard
  38. Marsh Tit
  39. Mistle Thrush
  40. Moorhen
  41. Mute Swan
  42. Nuthatch
  43. Pheasant
  44. Pied Wagtail
  45. Reed Bunting
  46. Robin
  47. Rook
  48. Sand Martin
  49. Song Thrush
  50. Sparrowhawk
  51. Starling
  52. Stock Dove
  53. Swallow
  54. Tawny Owl
  55. Treecreeper
  56. Tufted Duck
  57. Wheatear
  58. Whinchat
  59. Whitethroat
  60. Willow Warbler
  61. Woodpigeon
  62. Wren
  63. Yellowhammer
  64. Yellow Wagtail