Bird Count ... 24th September 2015

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- 38 species from 296 birds

- Keith, martin and mike m

- but windy, with some rain to start off with

- fabulous views of hobbies. parent and child playing acrobatics. at one point adult holding a bird it had caught plucked out some feathers and let them loose in the air, for the juvenile to catch. this was repeated a number of times.

- good numbers of stonechats and woodlarks

- just one redstart was seen

- two marsh tits were the first for a little while

- lots of mistle thrushes, which were difficult to count.

- passages of swallows, meadow pipits and starlings.

- plenty of birds missing, which we know are there

- a single blackcap near the tool store




martin

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