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