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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Birdcount ... march 21st 2013

below is spreadsheet for march 2013

Weather was not really suitable.  Lots of wind.  39 species, but should have been more at this part of the year.

Lots of Fieldfare and Redwings around, and none of the summer visitors.

4 woodcocks were nice

Chaffinches and Great tits singing, though perhaps rather optimistic.

Ravens seem to be more mobile now, and one wonders if they have raised some young.


click to see spreadsheeet

martin

Birdcount .... 29th February 2013

Ok, so there were only 28 days in February this year.  The weather has made planning birdcounts somewhat difficult, so we altered the calendar instead.

28 species, but generally with low numbers.

Heron and Collared Dove were the rarities.  We do get them a few times at this part of the year.

Woodlark and Woodcock were very nice to see.


click to see the spreadsheet

martin

Birdcount ... 28th January 2013

here is the spreadsheet for the birdcount in January 2013

27 species, but of course many just hiding.  We are bound to see them in the following week.

Weather far from ideal, as is typical of this year.  Good for the Herring gulls for some reason.

Pretty small numbers of the species present.  They must all be in the towns scrounging food.

Reed Bunting, Woodcocks and Raven are probably the highlights.


click here for spreadsheet


martin

18th February 2013 ... woodlarks


Heard woodlarks over old lodge again today

 martin

2nd April 2013 ... weekly volunteers


Present:

John, Mike, Pat, Alan, Jonathan, Keith, Neil, David p and  Martin

Activities:

- two brash bonfires on south west side of beeches avenue
- cleaned water troughs and turned on water
- maintained fence from cricket pitch  to tool store
- cut down some oak branches, broken by the cattle near the log piles
- brought down a leaning rotten pine near the bonfires

Observations:
- 2 woodlarks
- 2 ravens
- mike got hat
- alan distributed photos
- monty visited and confirmed 11.30 start for pony journey on thursday

 martin

26th March 2013 ... weekly volunteers


Present:

John, Jonathan, Alan, Pat, David p,  Maddy, Keith and Martin

Activities:

- five brash bonfires on slope down from trough
- prepared for next bonfire on sw side of beeches avenue
- took out four small pines, 2 potential hazzards for visitors and the other two potential future hazzards
- took down a hanging branch that was too near path
- brought down fallen tree that was hung up, near bonfire and nest box route


Observations:

- good views of Raven
- sparrowhawk
- siskins
- fieldfare and redwings
- volunteers took a beanie each
- ponies coming next week
- must clean and turn on troughs next week
- pretty cold today, ground frozen in parts

Martin