2004 SDFM = Southdown farm. NMR = Not my record back
20-1 Water rail seen on ponds
Jan c60 Yellow hammer with Cirls and Reed bunting in Hotel field.
Jan Barn owl using nest box supplied by The Barn Owl Trust.
25-1 f Merlin in Ranks.
Feb Black-headed gulls left the pig field
9-3 m Merlin in Great Mains
24-3 First Wheatear, a female (late!)
26-3 10 Pied Wagtails with 4 White Wagtails in Decca. Chiffchaffs arriving.
29-3 c25 Meadow Pipit in Waypark
14-4 First Swallow
17-4 First House martin
18-4 After rain, c30 Wheatear, 2 Blackcap, Willow warbler and Chiffchaffs arrived.
18-4 Gannets and Manx shearwater moving offshore.
23-4 Quail in Decca
25-4 Report 2 Dotterel in ploughed field NMR
27-4 Whimbrel
30-5 2 Shelduck on farm ponds (1st for Southdown)
6-6 1 Turtle Dove in the yard picture
25-6 Quail calling from new wild bird cover
7-7 First returning Black-headed gull to pig field
17-7 Green sandpiper heard calling in mist.
27-7 12 juv Chiffchaffs and Willow warbler in garden.
30-7 First juv Wheatear in pig field (autumn migrant)
8-8 Ringed plover calling over farm.
17-8 3 Ringed plover in the pig field after rain, Peregrine stooped at one.
19-8 8 Ringed plover with 6 Dunlin in pig field, 2 Sparrowhawks chasing Starlings,
c30 Lesser black-backed gulls in field.
21-8 3 Yellow wagtails, 4 Wheatear, 3 Ringed plover 1 Dunlin on pig field.
22-8 Harrier sp being mobbed by crows. (Marsh)?
Sep Pair Dotterel on Middle Soar farm picture (thanks to Perry Sanders)
6-9 c30 Wheatear with Whinchat on pig field
9-9 Water rail on ponds, Yellowhammer and Cirl bunting flocks in Hotel field
19-9 fBlackcap in garden with flock of 80 Linnet
26-9 c500 Linnet in groups around farm, Skylark numbers increasing Meadow
pipit and up to 50 Pied wagtails in pig field.
28-9 Grasshopper warbler and Sedge warbler in valley scrub, Goldcrests with
Chiffchaffs in garden
1-10 mBlue-headed (flava) with 3 Yellow wagtails Soar Mill Cove.
3-10 3 Golden plover flew over, many swallows and Martins, 2 Wheatear and
Chiffchaffs.
8-10 1 Pied flycatcher, 1 Grasshopper warbler and 4 Ring ouzel in Soar valley
16-10 2 Swallows
18-10 1 Golden plover and c 40 Pied wagtail
20-10 (Ring tail) Hen harrier over millet fields, 12 Reed bunting and a late
Whitethroat in hedges.
30-10 Late Whinchat in millet stubble
NOV Lapwings returning for winter
30-11 Quail seen in stubble fields, put up twice and heard call, very late record!
DEC Up to 30 Reed bunting using the winter stubble fields on the farm