Wednesday, 20th May 09:
Hayter, Spellbrook (west):
Tuesday, 19th May 09:
Spellbrook Lock to Tednambury Marsh:
Trims Green:
- Corn Bunting - at usual spot
- Common Tern 2 South were a fairly odd sighting
Hayter, Spellbrook (west):
- SPOTTED FLYCATCHER 1 - Great to get a yearlister on work land. Single short-staying bird found catching flies from a branch overhanging the Northern lawn on the other side of the large carpark. YL 134
- Lapwing 4 over South into wind
- Greylag 1 west
- Jay 2 - Presumably nesting in the same spot as last year. They seem to have the same routine as last year, making short trips from their tree very early on and becoming difficult to see after the've had their first decent meal. Lets hope a repeat of last years very young juv sighting is to follow
- Swallow - there looks to be a 3rd pair hanging around, tho prob nesting in nearby Spellbrook Farm
Wallbury:
- Common Whitethroat 1
- Great Spotted Woodpecker + juvs being fed at hole
- Chiffchaff 4
- Willow Warbler 5
- Blackcap 3
- Garden Warbler 2
- Sedge Warbler 3 (2 at north end with another bird singing less than 50 yards north from the northern edge
Thorley Wash:
- Grasshopper Warbler 3
- Kestrel 1 male hunting over
Monday, 18th May 09:
Willow Warbler - a pause between verses
Spellbrook Lock to Tednambury:
Trims Green:
- Corn Bunting 1 - male singing from usual spot before flying to Lysander Park to continue
- Yellow Wagtail - calling from rape field opposite Blounts
my best digiscoped shot to date? Male Skylark over fields
Mathams Wood:
- Long-tailed Tit - feeding young
- Garden Warbler 2
- Chiffchaff 3
- Common Whitethroat 4
- Willow Warbler 3
- Blackcap 5
- Lesser Whitethroat 1
- Green Woodpecker 1
- Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
- Greenfinch 2 singing males
Michaels Mead Pond (Southern Country Park):
- Reed Bunting 2
- Tufted Duck - usual resident drake
- Common Whittethroat 4
- Chiffchaff 2
- Willow Warbler 2
- Greenfinch and Goldfinch - both singing as per usual
- Reed Warbler and Sedge Warbler - both silent during my quick pass
Honeysuckle Close:
- Starling - First Juv of the year between piles of Adults collecting food from our garden
Stortford Park Farm (west):
- Yellowhammer 2 males
- Common Whitethroat 2 males
- Linnet 3 - second recent count of 3 together... possibly with young?
- Green Woodpecker - down onto the hill or ants
- Reed Bunting - still singing!
Common Whitethroat, Blackbird and Long-tailed Tit
Sunday, 17th May 09:
Linnet - on Stortford Park Farm
Stortford Park Farm (west):
Saturday, 16th May 09:
Starling - very close!
Stortford Park Farm:
Friday, 15th May 09:
Starling, House Sparrow and Slow worm all taken at Sunningdale
Stortford Park Farm:
EAST
WEST
Thursday, 14th May 09:
Jackdaw and Latticed Heath
Stansted Airport Lagoons:
Bush End:
- TURTLE DOVE - Joined by a second singing bird 300 yards East of 1st, with both birds singing at the same time!
- Cuckoo 1
- Common Buzzard 1 - 300 yards ENE from Bush End junction
Hatfield Forest:
- Cuckoo 2 - One singing less than 100 yards
Mute Swan, my first Common Sandpiper of the year and Pied Wagtail feeding young
A couple of the 2nd Bush End Turtle Dove and a Green-veined White at SAL
Wednesday, 13th May 09:
Hayter's usual albanistic male Blackbird, just before starting work
Spellbrook (west):
Tuesday, 12th May 09:
Corn Bunting - One of my best shots of his species to date
Trims Green:
Hatyer, Spellbrook (west):
- Blackbird - A female noted with a single white feather, possibly daughter (or relative) of our resident albanistic Male.
Monday, 11th May 09:
Stansted Airport Lagoons:
- Swift 20+
- Brown Argus 1