2002 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.
2002
Jan Large flocks of tits, finches and up to 15 Cirl bunting in Hotel field
16-2 Humming bird Hawk moth in garden (has this over wintered /
migrated)? Picture
7-3 18 Stock dove in stubble field
14-3 8 Wheatear (2f) at Soar Mill Cove, 1m Merlin being chased by
Peregrine
15-3 6 Chiffchaff in Soar willows
1-4 c50 Chiffchaff/Willow warbler in Soar willows with mRedstart
3-4 Swallow
7-4 7 Sandwich tern and 20+ Gannet of shore in easterly gales
7-4 Tree sparrow feeding off Winter stubble extra from a south devon
customer
7-4 Turtle dove on the farm
9-4 First record of a Red-legged partridge, calling in grass field.
20-5 Pair Canada geese started laying, Sedge warbler returned to farm
pond.
25-4 First Whitethroat arriving and Swifts seen in village
4-5 2 Whinchat, Cuckoo and up to 20 more Wheatear arrived.
19-5 Spotted flycatcher.
20-5 6 Sedge warbler singing on the farm
28-5 Turtle dove, Spotted flycatcher on farm. 100's Manx shearwater
and 1 Storm petrel moving offshore in SW gales.
29-6 c30 Goldfinch feeding on thistle.
10-7 Black-headed gulls returning to the pig field.
24-7 c250 Swallows feeding over stubble field.
1-8 Linnet flock of around 100 birds now feeding on the farm.
3-8 First departing Wheatear appearing on the farm, 4 juv.
22-8 Juv Yellow wagtail appearing in one's and two's.
23-8 Flushed a Quail from a freshly harvested field.
27-8 Several Sandwich tern heard overhead during the night.
29-8 juv Dottrel flew over Decca field, calling.
12-9 Report of an Icterine warbler in Soar willows.
15-9 40 Wheatear, 6 White wagtail, 2 Spotted flycatcher and many
Swallow and Martins passing through.
22-9 200 Linnet, 30 goldfinch in sunflower field 1st winter Redstart,
Yellow wagtail, Sedge & Reed warbler, 5 Spotted flycatcher, 2
Garden warbler and 30 Chiffchaff (records from Tom Whiley).
22-9 c1500 Swallow + Martin congregating in Soar Valley before
leaving across sea, 2 Merlin with them (Vic Tucker)
30-9 Woodlark on Decca (Vic Tucker)
1-10 20 Wheatear with one 'Northern'.
19-10 8 Ring ouzel in valley,c1000 Starlings in pig field,40 Greenfinch,1f
Reed bunting,f Merlin,f Wheatear, flocks of Siskin and Redpoll
flying over and a flock of Golden plover in Perratons field.
19-10 Flushed a Quail from Hotel field stubble.
NOV 7 Reed bunting in experimental Niger seed plot, c300 Skylark on
farm.
15-11 6 Siskin flew over farm buildings, Lapwing seen in pig field.
30-11 Barn owl roosting in the 'Torrs' above the grass fields, 1 Woodcock
9-12 70 Lapwings + 1 Dunlin on the pig field
Dec c70 Lapwing all month, 200 Black-headed gulls, 150 Herring gulls,
300 Jackdaw and Rooks +5-700 Starilings all in pig field.
Dec c12-15 Song thrush in Waypark (winter stubble field).