OK – time for another little quiz, thanks to the wonder of Birdtrack.
The list below is a birdlist from a site I have visited many times, not primarily to see birds, but then you can’t help but see birds if you have your eyes and ears tuned in.
Mallard
Pheasant
Grey Heron
Red Kite
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Feral Pigeon
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Swift
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Magpie
Jackdaw
Carrion Crow
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Skylark
Swallow
Long-tailed Tit
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Waxwing
Wren
Starling
Blackbird
Fieldfare
Song Thrush
Redwing
Robin
Dunnock
House Sparrow
Grey Wagtail
Pied Wagtail
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Where was I?
This is just for fun.
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Your garden 🙂
Fineshade woods??
I’d say tout gardien list but surprised no house Martin
I meant your garden list ( including flyovers)
Sorry about the spelling my phone thought I was typing in French!
Fineshade woods maybe but gulls say Stanwick Lakes?
Raunds.
You weren’t in Sutherland because you saw a Red Kite 🙂
Cheltenham Racecourse?
My guess is 1 of 2 – Doncaster races (are you there today) or Chepstow Races. Chepstow definitely had an influx of Waxwing in the last couple of years (but then so did Cheltenham).
So eeny, meeny etc – I will go with Chepstow (is this a prelude to you blogging about the Winter Beer festival this Saturday).
Fineshade woods.
Regent’s Park or The Lodge?
Got to be Cheltenham race course
Cheltenham Race Course?
How about RSPB The Lodge? although not sure about the Gulls.
I am sure it is not Cheltenham Race Course or is it!!
The Nunnery, Thetford?
Interesting absentees- no waders/ geese just one duck so not a wetland.
No woodland speciallists like tree creeper nut hatch nor a garden as watched as yours no house martin,coal tit ,bullfinch. A site you visit often- supermarket ( would you keep a list) decent shout for waxwing-or how about train station waiting for train ??–
Cheltenham Races
lots of birds fly over, calling
St James’s Park?
How about Wellingborough station? I know you’ve seen Red Kite there, but Grey Wagtail might be push.
Certainly not a lot of farmland I visit :-/
Certainly not a farmland visit.
Out of order.Surprised that this blog has not given Big Farmland Bird Count the benefit of saying how farmers are hopefully changing things.
2,000 farmers lots of them going on courses to learn identifying birds then doing a count on their farms,well done RSPB for helping and backing this and however cynical some critics are it is a very good start and there is every chance of more getting interested.
Unless there are ways of getting farmers interested in birds then farmland bird s will not improve.
Chris,by the way the only two not seen on nearest farm would be Waxwing and Red Kite but those two would be more than replaced by some on the farm but not on Mark’s list.
It was a cheap jibe that makes farmers think why should they bother about improving things.
I would say a City Park. London is likely. As Chris above I originally opted for Regents Park.
Asda Superstore, Corby
A racecourse in a rural area, (though I assume most are!). Reason, the presence of skylark and swallow but absence of most common wetland birds.