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Monday, 10th November 08:
A super start to my working week!
Honeysuckle Close, Bishops Stortford:
obviously i didn't get a photo, but here's a few from the turn of the year at addenbrookes hosp, Camb
in above pics Brambling on left, Chaffinch on right.
below, there are 4 Chaffinch on left and 4 Brambling on right
Sunday, 9th November 08:
Common Gulls are now arriving inland in greater numbers to spend the winter
Honeysuckle Close:
just a few garden sighting today
Stortford Park Farm (east):
Friday, 7th November 08:
A female Kestrel around her usual haunt
Taken on Hayter (north Lawn)
St. Michaels Church (Thorley) @ 0615 ish:
Fishing Pit - just south-west of church:
Hayter, Spellbrook (west):
Trims Green on way home:
The odd Pheasant on Hayter, North-East Field
more birdless shots on the way home...
Michaels Mead Pond (Southern Country Park) and traffic-dodging fun
Thursday, 6th November 08:
Female Bullfinch, today, at Hayter (North Lawn during my break)
Hayter, Spellbrook (west):
The Shelter 0700-0730 Hrs
A couple more experiments with shutter times on my way into work
traffic on the main road through Spellbrook and Hayter Drive on Spellbrook Lane West
Wednesday, 5th November 08:
The distinctive pattern of the ever-present Woodpigeon
Hayter, Spellbrook (west):
Early morning count, hayter shelter:
0700-0730 hrs
a Rook flying East from roost, over Hayter
Tuesday, 4th November 08:
Hayter, Spellbrook (west):
0700-0730 hrs
Heading North from Spellbrook to Thorley (St. Michael's) Church along field margins:
Michael's Mead Pond (Southern Country Park):
Honeysuckle Close, Bishops Stortford:
Monday, 3rd November 08:
What... no bird photo!
This is St. James? (Thorley) Church at ridiculously-early o'clock, on my walk to work
Hayter, Spellbrook (west):
0655-0730 From the shelter. Still lots of birds on the move, but nowhere near Fridays numbers
- Redwing 74 (17w, 19sw, 3s, 8n, 27 locals)
- Chaffinch 52 (27w, 8sw, 7nw, 4 locals and 6ne)
- Grey Wagtail 1 - arriving as usual at first light from roosting (at wash?) to spend the day commuting to the main spellbrook junction where he hangs around the brook, occasionally coming back to the factory roof for a rest.
- Black-headed Gull 17 (8n, 1ne, 8e)
- Bullfinch 6 (2ne, 4 locals)
- Mistle Thrush 1 - giving good, 'scoped views from the shelter
- Greenfinch 28 (23w, 5 local)
- Goldfinch 8 (+) - [5w, 3sw, (3e)]
- Song Thrush 2 - over east
- Fieldfare 26 (+) - [6 local, 18n, 2w, (1s, 2e)]
- House Sparrow 3 - i'm beginning to worry that there are very few remaining birds in the hayter colony.... from three nests this year! This would be a terrible start to the winter as some will no-doubt perish, making next years chances of breeding less likely
- Rook 14 - usual east to west are probably from the massive number that are roosting at mathams at the mo. With rook, woodpigeon and jackdaw counted together there are easily 1500 birds coming in in the last few hours of darkness to roost there! Usually lots pass over but now in the half-hour AFTER I start work :-(
- Woodpigeon 140+ (90+n, 50-60n) but both landing locally
- Common Gull 1 - over North
- Jackdaw 2 - over East (see rook above)
- Blackbird 26 (14 locals, 11 east [8, 3], 1 north-east) - a site record in 30 mins? will search my notes, but i regard this as shed-loads... checked them all for ring ouzel, which is an uncommonish bird on passage. Been on my herts most-wanted for some time.... but i wan't to find my own.
- Wren 4 - Two were singers
- Dunnock 5 - Three singers
- Mallard 2 - over East
- Green Woodpecker 1 - calling from north lawn
- TREECREEPER 1 - with mixed tit flock! I have very few mentions of this species in my West Spellbrook Notes over the last six years.
- Long-tailed Tit 3 - in mixed flock
- Great Tit 2 - as above
- Blue Tit 5+ as above
- Robin 5
- Pied Wagtail 6 0 on roof
1000 hrs on North Field
- Redwing 93 (72 over North East, 21 grounded birds still)
- Fieldfare 1 - over North-East, landing in Spellbrook Farm grounds
- Grey Wagtail 1 - over West
- Bullfinch 2 - recently seem to be spending most of their day feeding in the hawthorn bushes around North Lawn.... almost always present (tho sometimes 4)
- Long-tailed and Blue Tits - everywhere. No idea of count! no notes taken (Ed - very poor show)
1300 hrs
- Cormorant 2 - over East
- Redwing 27 - around North field
- Fieldfare 3 - with redwing
another rare, birdless, shot.
Taken from the footbridge between Thorley Church and Southern Country Park looking towards the pond
Sunday, 2nd November 08:
Bush end church:
A family trip to feed the ducks... When we got out of the car we were just surrounded by birds! They remained in the trees making them impossible to count properly
- Fieldfare c.20
- Redwing 50+
- Mistle Thrush 6 - one singing bird amongst their ranks
- Songthrush 2
- Goldfinch c.15
- Greenfinch c.20
- Chaffinch 15+
- Pied Wagtail 3
- Green Woodpecker 1
Hatfield Forest Lake (South-East edge):
By now the rain was getting heavier, so no time to check out the north side of the lake
- Great Crested Grebe 1
- Black-headed Gull 22
- Canada Goose 7
- Kingfisher 1
Saturday, 1st November 08:
While trying to relocate the Trims Green Merlin, yesterday after work, the only BoP I could find was this distant Kestrel
Honeysuckle Close, Bishops Stortford:
- Wren - single bird seen very often at the mo for the first time in ages. singing occasionally.
- Redwing 23 - over west
- Starling c.50 - West
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