One of our regular visitors sat and watched our visitor centre bird feeders for one hour this morning, much like the Big Garden Birdwatch, and managed to see 23 different species!
He saw:
blue titgreat titcoal titwillow titlong tailed tithouse sparrowtree sparrowchaffinchgoldfinchbullfinchgreenfinchsiskinbramblingreed buntingpheasantcollard doveblackbirdsong thrushrobindunnockgreat spotted woodpeckernuthatchmoorhen
It’d be great to hear how you all got on in your Big Garden Birdwatch, let us know how many species you got. Can any of you beat 23 species?
We’ve not just been watching the feeders at Fairburn Ings, elsewhere there have been sightings of curlews at New Flash and marsh harriers and red kites over Lin Dike. There was also an Iceland gull seen on Main Bay on Saturday.
This super shot of a great spotted woodpecker on a coconut treat was taken by Ginny Sibley, one of our volunteer rangers