Sunday 6 January 2019

Earlswood all-dayer - New Year's Day 2019

For the first time ever, some midlands patches including Earlswood competed in a winter all-day birdwatch on New Year's Day this year, like those we've been doing each spring and autumn in recent years. The results with species totals were as follows:

  1. Belvide - 77
  2. Middleton Lakes - 76
  3. Sandwell Valley - 74
  4. Upton Warren - 70
  5. Doxey Marshes - 66
  6. Whitemoor Haye - 61
  7. Morton Bagot - 58
  8. Earlswood - 56

So we came last, but with a superb adult male Common Scoter being found at Engine Pool, who can complain?! A great start for hopefully another productive year. Earlswood day list with initials for single-observer records and scoter as follows:
  1. Mute Swan
  2. Greylag Goose
  3. Canada Goose
  4. Mallard
  5. Shoveler
  6. Tufted Duck
  7. Common Scoter (JM et al.)
  8. Goldeneye (JJ)
  9. Goosander
  10. Little Grebe (JK)
  11. Great Crested Grebe
  12. Cormorant
  13. Grey Heron
  14. Sparrowhawk (JOw)
  15. Kestrel (JD)
  16. Moorhen
  17. Coot
  18. Golden Plover (JHS)
  19. Common Snipe (TRP)
  20. Black-headed Gull
  21. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  22. Herring Gull
  23. Feral Pigeon (TRP)
  24. Stock Dove (MPG)
  25. Woodpigeon
  26. Collared Dove
  27. Tawny Owl (MPG)
  28. Green Woodpecker (JJ)
  29. Great Spotted Woodpecker
  30. Grey Wagtail
  31. Pied Wagtail
  32. Wren
  33. Dunnock
  34. Robin
  35. Blackbird
  36. Fieldfare
  37. Redwing
  38. Song Thrush
  39. Mistle Thrush (JJ)
  40. Long-tailed Tit
  41. Blue Tit
  42. Great Tit
  43. Coal Tit
  44. Marsh Tit
  45. Nuthatch
  46. Treecreeper
  47. Jay
  48. Magpie
  49. Jackdaw
  50. Carrion Crow
  51. Raven
  52. Starling
  53. House Sparrow
  54. Chaffinch
  55. Goldfinch 
  56. Bullfinch (JJ)
Thanks to John Bishop, Jon Chidwick, Judy Donath, Harry Hopkins, Janet James, James Kenny, Joe Martin, Joe Owen, John Sirrett, Rob Strong, Tony and Barbara Philp for their reports and/or offering to fill in gaps in the list. Rematch in the spring!