Sunday 16 February 2014

St Andrews Park

An absolutely beautiful morning and lots of bird activity in the park. The full list:

Redwing - up to 10 birds
Mistle Thrush - at least 2 birds showed well
Jay - 1 or 2 birds gave good views
Long-tailed Tit - a couple
Great Tit - several singing
Blue Tit - more heard than seen
House Sparrow - some chirping near the bowling green
Starling - several birds
Magpie - a few
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 overhead
Blackcap - 1 male briefly near the park keeper's compound
Woodpigeon - several
Collared Dove - 2 or 3
Feral Pigeon - 1 or 2
Blackbird - 3 or 4
Robin - a couple
Greenfinch - 3 or 4
Chaffinch - heard singing
Goldfinch - 2 or 3
Wren - 1 heard singing
Carrion Crow - a few including one refurbishing a nest near the Effingham Road entrance.

Meanwhile back in Monty there were a whopping 4 Jays at Fairlawn Road while at the station the highlights were a female Blackcap, a Grey Wagtail and a supporting cast of 2 Starlings and several Chaffinches.
Grey Wagtail

Starling


A Blue Tit was investigating my nestbox (front garden) this morning

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