Wednesday, 1 March 2017

The 'Patchwork Challenge' 2017 ~ Slow Going but Enjoyable

We are making very slow progress towards our Target of 60 Bird' Species and are beginning to think that the Target might be a little Ambitious! But it's Enjoyable so we ain't Complaining.

As at 28 February 2017 we have seen:

Black-Headed Gull
Black-Tailed Godwit
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Canada Goose 
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch 
Chiffchaff 
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Common Sandpiper 
Cormorant
Curlew (seen here with some Redshanks) viz.


Dunlin 
Dunnock
Gadwall 
Goldfinch 
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Tit
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Jay
Lapwing
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Linnet
Long-Tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Moorhen
Oystercatcher viz.


Pied Wagtail
Redshank
Redwing 
Ringed Plover
Ring-Necked Parakeet
Robin
Rock Pipit viz.


Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon
Shelduck
(a distant) Shoveler (the first one we have ever knowingly seen on the 'Patch', distant or otherwise!) viz.


Starling
Teal
Wood Pigeon
Wren

Sadly, there still doesn't seem to be a Cetti's Warbler living beside the Footpath running up from Crabtree Manorway North to the Thames Path this Year.

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