Bird Count ... 21st February 2014

Below is a link to the spreadsheet for the bird count at Old Lodge on 21st Feb 2014.

34 species again, which is perfectly OK for a February

2 rarities for Old Lodge.  1 male house sparrow at top lodge, calling and being territorial.  The other a large flock, estimated at 200, of starlings on one of the paddocks of the stud.  They were down near the pippingford boundary, about where the stream emerges from nowhere under the road.  Perhaps the grassland was completely water logged and there were plenty of worms to be had.

A jackdaw is increasingly being seem or heard.  There is a big flock centred on Kidds Hill farm where they raise sheep, and these are now spreading further afield.

Plenty of starlings and robins


Martin


click to get the spreadsheet