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Birds on the Farm this Year

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.

2010

9-1      Very cold weather for 1 month. c50 Snipe in the Hills with 50+ lapwing, 4 teal, 800 skylark on Soar Mill field with redwing, fieldfare and a grey heron.

11-1     11 mallard, 9 teal on pond. 50 snipe, 1 bar-tailed godwit, 200 redwing with fieldfares, 1 merlin, 60 golden plover on farm.

11-1     7 wrens on our house wall going to a communal roost.

Feb       Now 5 grey partridge in Soar Mill field. Picture of Greys

16-3     Barn owl hunting at night in Decca

24-3     18 Golden plover over Decca

10-4     Hoopoe in garden (possibly 2) video

11-4     2swallows, 1 wheatear lots of chiffchaffs.

20-4     2 whitethroat in Soar valley

1-5       Sedge warblers singing at the cove

5-5       1 Pair grey partridge in Ranks

9-5       Influx of swifts and whinchats in Soar cove.

28-5     Buzzard nesting on Hazel Tor

5-6       Barn owl hunting in grass fields.

5-6       Sedge warbler singing around back of farm buildings, cirls in farm yard.

6-6       c50 young greenfinch feeding in garden.

9-6       Grasshopper warbler singing from perch in Waypark

10-9     m Hobby hunting butterflies along the cliff.

14-6     8 pairs of whitethroat along footpath from Great Mains to Ranks

14-6     Hobby seen in Ranks field.

4-7       Young wheatear in Soar Mill Cove , grasshopper warbler singing in Soar valley.