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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.

2009

Jan     c175 Chaffinch,250 linnet, 30 song thrush.

4-1     Peregrines displaying in Soar Mill Cove

6-1     Golden plover calling over Ranks

22-1   Hen harrier (ring tail) hunting in Perratons field.

13-2   3 Snipe in Perratons. Hares starting to "box".

26-2   4 Golden plover on Ranks.

9-3     6 Stock doves in Perratons

14-3   2 Black redstarts in yard

15-3   Hen harrier

16-3   2 m brambling in garden and a f wheatear in Waypark

30-3   First swallow at Southdown

March c40 Yellowhammer in Soar mill

6-4     2 Shelduck in Waypark

15-4   Mistle thrush 

16-4   House martin

17-4   Lapwing in mushroom field

24-4   Marsh harrier seen flying in from the sea NMR

26-4   Grasshopper warbler singing in Soar Mill Cove, sedge warblers in Soar valley

28-4   Red kite seen over farm NMR.

11-5   Yellow wagtail in Decca.

14-5   Grasshopper warbler singing fromSoarMill quarry.

2009   No house martins bred at Southdown this year.

4-6     Spotted flycatcher in Soar Mill valley.

9-6     mBullfinch in garden

30-6   Hobby seen just outside Malborough

2-7     Turtle dove in Ranks

2-8     mMarsh harrier flying over fields south.

29-8   Willow warbler and chiffchaff in garden.

5-9     '000's of swallows and martins hunting over fields and cliffs.

6-9     juv hobby hunting in Decca field. NMR

11-9   Merlin and lapwing in Great Mains

13-9   '000's swallows and martins flying inland to roost

21-9   juv Dotterel with golden plover, whinchat and wheatear in Decca

22-9   juv dotterel, short-eared owl and 2 redstart in Decca

9-10   5 lapwing in Heath field with 6 wheatear

15-10 2 swallows

16-10 Chiffchaff, wheatear and redwing.

28-10 2 Hen harrier on farm, 1 juv and 1 adult.

29-10 000's Woodpigeon migrating. Black redstart in farm yard.