2001 SDFM = Southdown farm. NMR = Not my record back
Listed here are the current years sightings, if I managed a picture this is included. Some records have a field name where the bird was seen, click on the 'farm map' to get your bearings.
CONTRIBUTORS:- Perry Sanders PSa, Pete Aley PHA
2001
Jan Flock of c25 Linnet on Soar Mill Seeds stubble
10-1 Grey heron flew over farm
20-1 10 Stock Dove with 10 Wood Pigeon on stubble
26-1 5 Canada Geese flew over farm
28-1 1 m Lapland Bunting on Decca (wintered?)
3-2 6 m Cirl Bunting with c30 Yellowhammer in Hotel field
16-2 m Wheatear on fence in Perratons (early record)
16-2 4 Snipe in stubble on Turnip field
18-3 2 Canada Geese on new wader scrape in Decca
20-3 Wheatear in Decca
21-3 Winter plumaged Dunlin in Waypark
30-3 1 m + 2 f Wheatear, 20 Pied Wagtails, 1 White Wagtail,40
Linnet & 10 Goldfinch on set-aside wild bird mix
1-4 3 Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler arrived
7-4 f Merlin hunting over Soar Mill Seeds stubble
8-4 First Swallow
2-5 First Turtle Dove
8-5 20 Wheatear, 6 Whinchat on seed mix. f Redstart, 10 Spotted Flycatcher,
m Pied Flycatcher in Soar Cove valley
15-5 Cuckoo heard calling in the valley
11-6 c400 Swift hunting over the farm
24-6 Locust in Ranks
25-6 Quail calling in Great Mains
7-7 juv Hawfinch feeding off Winter Stubbles original bird food 'picture'
2-8 juv Peregrine hunting over pig field, 3 kills, a Starling and 2 Pigeons
5-8 c250 Linnet feeding on oil seed rape fields
10-8 2 returning Autumn Wheatear
16-8 Ringed plover calling over the farm
25-8 c25 Pied wagtails with 6 Wheatear on old pig field, Sedge warbler in farm road hedge
26-8 c2000 mixed flock of Swallows, House martins and Sand martins over harvested fields
27-8 Yellow wagtail, Whinchat and male Merlin on farm
3-9 Wryneck on footpath to beach NMR
15-9 c200 Meadow pipit on stubble
23-9 50+ Swallows leaving out to sea
29-9 c1000 mixed flock of Goldfinch and Linnet on rape stubbles
10-10 Dartford warbler Soar Mill Cove PSa
11-10 Wryneck in Soar Cove for 2 days PHA
15-10 Merlin hunting on farm
21-10 Yellow-browed warbler in trees at Lower Soar Farm NMR
21-10 Woodlark at East Soar car park PSa
22-10 Two possibly three Short-eared owls at East Soar car park PSa
29-10 Lapland bunting with Skylark on East Soar farm NMR
15-11 Groups of Fieldfare and Siskin on the farm
18-11 2 Brambling with around 25 Chaffinch on a feeding station
19-11 fWheatear on pig field (Northern, (shame!))