Birds

SPRAGGLESEA MEAD & DEAN’S HAM ALLOTMENTS

Bird  List

Swans on Eastwyke stream



 

 

Spragglesea Mead and Dean’s Ham Allotment Society

 

Wildlife Report 2015: Bird List

 

Spragglesea Mead survey

List of Wild Flowers. Click here  to view.
List of Birds. Click here to view.
List of Butterflies. Click here to view.
Map. Click here to view.

 

The following is a list of the birds I have seen from my plot since starting working on it in 1991.  Those marked (*) have nested on or on the periphery of the site. 

 

 

Resident Birds

Great Crested Grebe*

Little grebe*

Cormorant

Grey Heron*

Mute Swan*

Canada Goose*

Mallard*

Red Kite

Sparrowhawk

Common Buzzard

Kestrel

Peregrine

Grey Partridge

Pheasant

Moorhen*

Coot*

Black-headed Gull

Herring Gull

Woodpigeon*

Collared Dove*

Green Woodpecker*

Great Spotted Woodpecker*

Wren*

Dunnock*

Robin*

Blackbird*

Song Thrush*

Goldcrest*

Blue Tit*

Great Tit*

Coal Tit

Long-tailed Tit*

Treecreeper*

Starling

Jay*

Magpie*

Jackdaw

Carrion Crow

Rook

House Sparrow*

Chaffinch*

Greenfinch*

Goldfinch

Reed Bunting*

 

 

Summer Visitors

Common Tern*

Pied Wagtail

Swift*

Swallow*

House Martin*

Blackcap*

Willow Warbler*

Chiffchaff*

 

 

 

 

 

Winter Visitors

Wigeon

Teal

Tufted Duck

Fieldfare

Redwing

Mistle Thrush

Siskin

 

 

 

Rarities

Slavonian Grebe

White-fronted Goose

Egyptian Goose

Gadwall

Pochard

Red-breasted Merganser

Oystercatcher

Common Sandpiper

Tawny Owl

Lapwing

Great Black-backed Gull

Cuckoo*

Kingfisher*

Skylark

Bullfinch

Redpoll

Lesser Whitethroat*[1]

 

 



[1] Once a regular summer visitor I have not seen or heard this bird since the construction of the Railtrack Quarry.


 List compiled by David Custerson, 2015.