03/11/2018
Very little birding done today, and certainly nothing to rival yesterday's amazing turnout. Nice and clear in the evening but the neighbours decided to have a bonfire and thus birding was out after nightfall.
My Garden:
Robin: 1
Blackbird: 3
House Sparrow: 2
Great Tit: 3
Blue Tit: 2
Siskin: 1
02/11/2018
The most exciting day this week so far - a Chiffchaff turned up, calling around my garden from various points, before moving on. Also, a superb passage of Meadow Pipits was recorded, with the lowest estimate being 70 birds, mostly headed South. Quality rather than quantity when it comes to individual species.
My Garden
Blackbird: 3
Blue Tit: 2
Black-headed Gull: 1
Magpie: 2
Chiffchaff: 1
Meadow Pipit: >70
Jackdaw: 40
Starling: 30
Siskin: 3
01/11/2018
Much the same, only a few Redwing to break things up...and a Long-tailed Tit.
My Garden
Blackbird: 2
Song Thrush: 2
Blue Tit: 3
House Sparrow: 6
Carrion Crow: 3
Jackdaw: 10
Starling: 40
Great Tit: 3
Coal Tit: 2
Long-tailed Tit: 1
Redwing: 3
Siskin: 2
31/10/2018
The usual monotony of patch birding continues...whilst coastal Sussex birders are finding Yellow-browed Warblers, a much wanted patch tick for me, and other things...
My Garden
Blackbird: 1
Robin: 1
Blue Tit: 4
House Sparrow: 8
Black-headed Gull: 1
Starling: 30
Jackdaw: 30
Herring Gull: 10
Siskin: 6
30/10/2018
Again, the same as yesterday. Nothing great, but I had a migratory Goldfinch over my garden.
Poundfield Footpath
Black-headed Gull: 10
Woodpigeon: 3
Magpie: 8
Carrion Crow: 3
Robin: 1
Blue Tit: 2
My Garden
Blackbird: 3 (male and two females/juveniles)
Robin: 1
Goldcrest: 2
Jackdaw: 4
Carrion Crow: 2
Woodpigeon: 3
Goldfinch: 1 (headed South high over)
Black-headed Gull: 1
Starling: 3
Collared Dove: 1
Magpie: 2
29/10/2018
Mostly garden birding today, but I did manage to walk the Poundfield Footpath. Nothing overly exciting, except the largest numbers of Black-headed Gulls this autumn so far.
Poundfield Footpath
Robin: 1
Blackbird: 1
Blue Tit: 2
Black-headed Gull: 30
Woodpigeon: 12
Redwing: 1 (on the fields)
Nuthatch: 1
Carrion Crow: 4
My Garden
Robin: 1 (singing)
Blackbird: 2 (male and female)
Goldcrest: 3 (calling)
Blue Tit: 1 (flew in around lunch time)
Great Tit: 1 (singing)
Jackdaw: 50 (good numbers, roosting count)
Starling: 80 (roosting count)
Siskin: 3
28/10/2018
No birding was done today, sadly, so there is nothing to report on.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Crowborough 21/10/2018 - 27/10/2018
27/10/2018
As usual, birding was at a minimum over the weekend, so nothing of great interest over Saturday, part from the normal garden birds.
My Garden:
Robin: 1 (singing)
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
Redwing: 1 (over at midday)
Blue Tit: (one calling)
Jackdaw: 3 (not present for the roosting count)
26/10/2018
Again, only more garden birding today, as I was out in the evening. Not really anything of great note, apart from several migratory Goldfinches flying high over heading South.
My Garden
Goldfinch: 20 (migrating South)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (flying over)
Siskin: 3 (in a flock low over)
Blackbird: 3 (a male and two first winters)
Robin: 1 (singing)
Woodpigeon: 5 (in the trees)
Coal Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Blue Tit: 4 (largest numbers for a while, probably a family group)
Starling: 60 (roost count, numbers growing ready for the huge winter flock we get round here)
Jackdaw: 20 (roost count, again growing numbers)
25/10/2018
Today was only marked by a slight improvement in numbers of Starlings, and also a group of 40 Fieldfare at Pennybridge Lake.
Pennybridge Lake
Greylag Goose: 3
Buzzard: 1
Woodpigeon: 10
Magpie: 3
Jay: 2
Jackdaw: 20
Carrion Crow: 2
Blue Tit: 1
Nuthatch: 4
Fieldfare: 40
Robin: 1
Grey Wagtail: 1
My Garden
Robin: 1 (singing)
Wren: 1 (calling early morning)
Magpie: 2 (in the line of trees)
Goldfinch: 3 (all migrants headed South)
Goldcrest: 2 (singing in the conifers)
Chaffinch: 2 (flying around calling)
Jackdaw: 3 (the usual three)
Carrion Crow: 6 (really large numbers, caused I think by an invisible Sparrowhawk)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (one flying over)
Woodpigeon: 4 (in the trees as usual)
Herring Gull: 1 (only one flying over today, more up town)
Starling: 10 (largest number seen for a while)
Great Tit: 1 (male singing)
Collared Dove: 1 (one flying over, not so common in my garden now for some reason)
Blue Tit: 1 (one flew in at midday)
24/10/2018
Similar to yesterday, but I walked down to the woodland bordering Green Lane, where the highlights were three Redwing high over. In my garden, there was some variety for once, with Linnet and Meadow Pipit recorded.
Green Lane
Nuthatch: 1 (calling)
Redwing: 3 (flying over South)
Buzzard: 1 (one over calling)
Goldcrest: 1 (singing)
Blue Tit: 1 (feeding in the treetops)
Blackbird: 1 (male amongst the leaves)
My Garden
Jackdaw: 1 (early morning, not sure what happened to the others)
House Sparrow: 2 (one of the usual pairs)
Wren: 1 (calling early morning)
Woodpigeon: 1 (singing)
Goldcrest: 1 (male singing in the conifers)
Carrion Crow: 2 (usual pair)
Goldfinch: 1 (flying over high South)
Robin: 1 (dominant male singing I think)
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
Linnet: 1 (high over South calling)
Blue Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Chaffinch: 1 (calling as it flew over)
Siskin: 2 (flying over low)
Coal Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Herring Gull: 1 (flying high over)
Meadow Pipit: 1 (flying South high, but calling)
Nuthatch: 1 (calling from the woodland)
23/10/2018
Only more garden birding again, as I spent a large part of the day at Broadwater Warren RSPB, and nothing spectacular apart from a male Sparrowhawk that raced through glowing in the evening sunlight for the second day running.
My Garden
Robin: 1 (singing)
Wren: 2 (calling at each other)
Sparrowhawk: 1 (possibly the same as yesterday)
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn as usual)
Siskin: 1 (flying high over South)
Jackdaw: 30 (pre-roost flock)
Carrion Crow: 2 (usual pair)
Goldfinch: 3 (flying low over)
House Sparrow: 2 (in the lilac)
Highlights from Broadwater Warren RSPB included numerous Stonechats and a Meadow Pipit, plus all the usual suspects for this time of year.
22/10/2018
Very quiet again, although I was out birding for longer today than the previous two days, although I was unable to go anywhere other than my garden.
My Garden
Carrion Crow: 3 (upset by Sparrowhawk)
Robin: 1 (singing as usual)
House Sparrow: 2 (low numbers in the lilac)
Sparrowhawk: 1 (did not take anything as far as I am aware)
Woodpigeon: 3 (others were probably concealed in the woodland)
Siskin: 3 (probably migrants on this occasion, as they were headed South)
Jackdaw: 2 (poor pre-roost count today)
Starling: 5 (low numbers)
Goldfinch: 1 (probable migrant: high over headed South)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (flying over)
Chaffinch: 1 (male singing)
21/10/2018
Only a few observations made out of the window today, so nothing of note.
My Garden
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
Robin: 1 (singing)
House Sparrow: 5 (two pairs and a juvenile)
As usual, birding was at a minimum over the weekend, so nothing of great interest over Saturday, part from the normal garden birds.
My Garden:
Robin: 1 (singing)
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
Redwing: 1 (over at midday)
Blue Tit: (one calling)
Jackdaw: 3 (not present for the roosting count)
26/10/2018
Again, only more garden birding today, as I was out in the evening. Not really anything of great note, apart from several migratory Goldfinches flying high over heading South.
My Garden
Goldfinch: 20 (migrating South)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (flying over)
Siskin: 3 (in a flock low over)
Blackbird: 3 (a male and two first winters)
Robin: 1 (singing)
Woodpigeon: 5 (in the trees)
Coal Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Blue Tit: 4 (largest numbers for a while, probably a family group)
Starling: 60 (roost count, numbers growing ready for the huge winter flock we get round here)
Jackdaw: 20 (roost count, again growing numbers)
25/10/2018
Today was only marked by a slight improvement in numbers of Starlings, and also a group of 40 Fieldfare at Pennybridge Lake.
Pennybridge Lake
Greylag Goose: 3
Buzzard: 1
Woodpigeon: 10
Magpie: 3
Jay: 2
Jackdaw: 20
Carrion Crow: 2
Blue Tit: 1
Nuthatch: 4
Fieldfare: 40
Robin: 1
Grey Wagtail: 1
My Garden
Robin: 1 (singing)
Wren: 1 (calling early morning)
Magpie: 2 (in the line of trees)
Goldfinch: 3 (all migrants headed South)
Goldcrest: 2 (singing in the conifers)
Chaffinch: 2 (flying around calling)
Jackdaw: 3 (the usual three)
Carrion Crow: 6 (really large numbers, caused I think by an invisible Sparrowhawk)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (one flying over)
Woodpigeon: 4 (in the trees as usual)
Herring Gull: 1 (only one flying over today, more up town)
Starling: 10 (largest number seen for a while)
Great Tit: 1 (male singing)
Collared Dove: 1 (one flying over, not so common in my garden now for some reason)
Blue Tit: 1 (one flew in at midday)
24/10/2018
Similar to yesterday, but I walked down to the woodland bordering Green Lane, where the highlights were three Redwing high over. In my garden, there was some variety for once, with Linnet and Meadow Pipit recorded.
Green Lane
Nuthatch: 1 (calling)
Redwing: 3 (flying over South)
Buzzard: 1 (one over calling)
Goldcrest: 1 (singing)
Blue Tit: 1 (feeding in the treetops)
Blackbird: 1 (male amongst the leaves)
My Garden
Jackdaw: 1 (early morning, not sure what happened to the others)
House Sparrow: 2 (one of the usual pairs)
Wren: 1 (calling early morning)
Woodpigeon: 1 (singing)
Goldcrest: 1 (male singing in the conifers)
Carrion Crow: 2 (usual pair)
Goldfinch: 1 (flying over high South)
Robin: 1 (dominant male singing I think)
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
Linnet: 1 (high over South calling)
Blue Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Chaffinch: 1 (calling as it flew over)
Siskin: 2 (flying over low)
Coal Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Herring Gull: 1 (flying high over)
Meadow Pipit: 1 (flying South high, but calling)
Nuthatch: 1 (calling from the woodland)
23/10/2018
Only more garden birding again, as I spent a large part of the day at Broadwater Warren RSPB, and nothing spectacular apart from a male Sparrowhawk that raced through glowing in the evening sunlight for the second day running.
My Garden
Robin: 1 (singing)
Wren: 2 (calling at each other)
Sparrowhawk: 1 (possibly the same as yesterday)
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn as usual)
Siskin: 1 (flying high over South)
Jackdaw: 30 (pre-roost flock)
Carrion Crow: 2 (usual pair)
Goldfinch: 3 (flying low over)
House Sparrow: 2 (in the lilac)
Highlights from Broadwater Warren RSPB included numerous Stonechats and a Meadow Pipit, plus all the usual suspects for this time of year.
22/10/2018
Very quiet again, although I was out birding for longer today than the previous two days, although I was unable to go anywhere other than my garden.
My Garden
Carrion Crow: 3 (upset by Sparrowhawk)
Robin: 1 (singing as usual)
House Sparrow: 2 (low numbers in the lilac)
Sparrowhawk: 1 (did not take anything as far as I am aware)
Woodpigeon: 3 (others were probably concealed in the woodland)
Siskin: 3 (probably migrants on this occasion, as they were headed South)
Jackdaw: 2 (poor pre-roost count today)
Starling: 5 (low numbers)
Goldfinch: 1 (probable migrant: high over headed South)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (flying over)
Chaffinch: 1 (male singing)
21/10/2018
Only a few observations made out of the window today, so nothing of note.
My Garden
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
Robin: 1 (singing)
House Sparrow: 5 (two pairs and a juvenile)
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Crowborough 14/10/2018 - 20/10/2018
20/10/2018
Not much garden birding today, as I went down to Shooter's Bottom this morning.
Hurtis Hill
Buzzard: 4
My Garden
Chaffinch: 2 (very active flying low over)
Pied Wagtail: 2 (flying over)
Siskin: 5 (flying over)
House Sparrow: 4 (two pairs)
Woodpigeon: 8 (burst out of the trees as usual)
Highlights from Shooter's Bottom this morning included a single Wheatear, and a good passage of Skylarks, Goldfinches, and Siskins, as well as the regular Stonechats, Robins, Blackbirds, and a migrant Chiffchaff, but despite closely examining every Blackbird there were no Ring Ouzels amongst them.
19/10/2018
Today I did a reasonable amount of birding from my garden, where I saw Crowborough's 2nd record of SKYLARK. I also made a brief trip up to the Pocket Park NR, with a diversion to North Beeches Road where the WHITE WAGTAIL was still showing. Also, I walked along the woods bordering Green Lane, where there was nothing much of note.
Beacon Academy/North Beeches Road
WHITE WAGTAIL: 1(on the school buildings)
Pied Wagtail: 3 (with the WHITE WAGTAIL)
House Sparrow: 8 (in the hedges at the entrance to the school)
Pocket Park NR
Carrion Crow: 2 (flying over)
Magpie: 1 (flying over)
Blue Tit: 4 (feeding in the copse)
Blackcap: 1 (in the scrub)
Goldfinch: 5 (flying over before landing in the copse)
Song Thrush: 1 (flying into the scrub)
Dunnock: 2 (male and female mating)
Blackbird: 1 (male in the copse)
Green Lane
Nuthatch: 1 (calling from deep in the woods)
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 2 (calling to one another)
Robin: 1 (one singing from the scrub bordering the road)
My Garden
Wren: 1 (calling early morning)
Jackdaw: 3 (again I was not present for the roosting count)
Chaffinch: 2 (flying over but not migrants)
Woodpigeon: 12 (heading South so likely migrants)
Song Thrush: 1 (singing quietly early morning)
Starling: 3 (I was not present for the roosting count)
Carrion Crow: 2 (usual pair)
Siskin: 6 (usual group flying over several times)
Goldfinch: 1 (low numbers, a possible migrant)
Robin: 1 (singing from the conifers)
Blackbird: 1 (male feeding on the lawn)
House Sparrow: 3 (one adult, two juvenile)
Blue Tit: 1 (calling from the conifers)
Collared Dove: 1 (flying over)
SKYLARK: 7 (heading South, Crowborough's 2nd)
Herring Gull: 3 (usual autumn numbers, including one juvenile)
Magpie: 4 (two pairs)
18/10/2018
The most exciting news from today was of Crowborough's second 'White Wagtail', the continental subspecies of our Pied Wagtail. The first bird was a returning adult which overwintered on Pilmer Road in the winters of 2015 and 2016. Today's bird was on North Beeches Road, at the far end, on the roofs near the school entrance. I saw it at around 1000 hrs but the views were hardly good, but later I revisited the area and got much better views, although sadly no photos.
Beacon Academy/North Beeches Road
WHITE WAGTAIL: 1 (on the roofs of the houses on the corner)
Pied Wagtail: 4 (mostly adults)
Pocket Park NR
Blue Tit: 1 (feeding with LTTs)
Long-tailed Tit: 8 (at least 8 feeding in the treetops)
Carrion Crow: 1 (flying over)
Nuthatch: 1 (calling)
Wren: 2 (calling from the scrub)
Dunnock: 1 (singing from deep in the willow scrub)
My Garden
Blackbird: 1 (on the lawn)
Blue Tit: 2 (in the lilac)
Robin: 1 (one calling from the gardens beyond)
Wren: 1 (one calling loudly early morning)
Carrion Crow: 1 (one flying over)
House Sparrow: 2 (low numbers in the lilac)
Jackdaw: 2 (two on the chimney pots)
Woodpigeon: 2 (feeding on the lawn)
Starling: 3 (flying over)
Siskin: 2 (flying over)
Herring Gull: 2 (flying over)
Goldfinch: 1 (one landed in the conifers)
Coal Tit: 1 (in the conifers)
Collared Dove: 1 (feeding on the lawn)
Magpie: 2 (in the line of trees)
Great Tit: 2 (singing)
Goldcrest: 1 (singing)
Greenfinch: 1 (calling as it flew over)
Chaffinch: 1 (calling)
17/10/2018
I was out for a similar length of time as I was yesterday in my garden, so I recorded a decent number of species, including my second Great Spotted Woodpecker in my garden, and also my second Marsh Tit, also for the garden, but I was unable to get to any other part of Crowborough today.
Pilmer Area
Nuthatch: 1
My Garden
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
House Sparrow: 8 (my biggest count this year)
Great Tit: 1 (one male singing)
Blue Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Woodpigeon: 2 (flying out from the conifers)
Jackdaw: 7 (I did not see the roosting flock so there were probably more than this)
Robin: 1 (male singing from our elder bushes)
Goldfinch: 3 (an improvement on yesterday's pitiful one, and more like the normal count)
Siskin: 6 (one large flock, although small flocks of 1/2 birds flew over throughout the day)
Starling: 5 (again, I did not see the roosting flock)
Black-headed Gull: 20 (building up to the large winter flocks)
Herring Gull: 10 (of which at least half were juveniles)
Carrion Crow: 2 (the usual pair again)
Greenfinch: (two flew over)
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER: 1 (second for my garden list)
Magpie: 4 (two pairs)
Goldcrest: 2 ( the usual two, I imagine)
Pied Wagtail: 2 (average number for this time of year)
Chiffchaff: 1 (singing?!)
MARSH TIT: 1 (feeding in the conifers/calling with Blue Tits)
16/10/2018
I was out in my garden for quite a long time today, and I made another visit to the Pocket Park NR, which was very quiet. The highlights from my garden included a Jay from inside the woodland, and a single Siskin that flew South around late afternoon.
Pocket Park NR
Blue Tit: 1 (feeding in the treetops)
Carrion Crow: 1 (flying over)
Herring Gull: 2 (flying over)
Woodpigeon: 4 (flying over)
Chiffchaff: 1 (calling, but not singing this time)
My Garden
Robin: 2 (probably the same two males singing)
Starling: 6 (I was not present at roosting time)
Blue Tit: 1 (in the lilac)
Black-headed Gull: 1 (flying over)
Woodpigeon: 5 (erupted out of the trees again)
Song Thrush: 1 (very quietly singing)
Blackbird: 1 (male feeding off rotten apples on the lawn)
Jackdaw: 50 (put up by a raptor which I could not locate)
Collared Dove: 4 (two pairs as far as I can tell)
Carrion Crow: 1 (flying over)
Goldfinch: 1 (flying over)
House Sparrow: 2 (in the lilac and later on the roof as usual)
Goldcrest: 1 (in the conifers)
Siskin: 1 (flew over around late afternoon)
Jay: 1 (my first record for a while)
15/10/2018
Very much the same again, despite rather nicer weather. In my garden, the highlight was a singing Chiffchaff, possibly the same one as I had last Friday. I also visited the Pocket Park NR, and the best bird there was another singing Chiffchaff.
Pocket Park NR
Chiffchaff: 1 (singing from the scrub)
Nuthatch: 1 (calling from in the copse)
Blue Tit: 2 (feeding in the treetops)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (flying over)
Herring Gull: 2 (flying over)
Great Tit: 3 (feeding with the Blue Tits)
My Garden
Chiffchaff: 1 (singing)
Blackbird: 2 (on the lawn)
Robin: 1 (behind the lilac singing)
Blue Tit: 1 (in the lilac)
House Sparrow: 2 (also in the lilac)
14/10/2018
Not such a nice day. I was out in the morning, and by the afternoon rain had set in, and the rest of the day was almost a washout. I logged a few species, mostly from my dry and warm house, but there was nothing out of the ordinary by any stretch of the imagination.
My Garden
House Sparrow: 2 (male and female in the lilac)
Robin: 2 (probably the two males still going at each other)
Blackbird: 1 (male feeding on the lawn)
Blue Tit: 1 (one calling from the conifers)
Goldcrest: 1 (seen on the conifers through the window with binoculars!)
Not much garden birding today, as I went down to Shooter's Bottom this morning.
Hurtis Hill
Buzzard: 4
My Garden
Chaffinch: 2 (very active flying low over)
Pied Wagtail: 2 (flying over)
Siskin: 5 (flying over)
House Sparrow: 4 (two pairs)
Woodpigeon: 8 (burst out of the trees as usual)
Highlights from Shooter's Bottom this morning included a single Wheatear, and a good passage of Skylarks, Goldfinches, and Siskins, as well as the regular Stonechats, Robins, Blackbirds, and a migrant Chiffchaff, but despite closely examining every Blackbird there were no Ring Ouzels amongst them.
19/10/2018
Today I did a reasonable amount of birding from my garden, where I saw Crowborough's 2nd record of SKYLARK. I also made a brief trip up to the Pocket Park NR, with a diversion to North Beeches Road where the WHITE WAGTAIL was still showing. Also, I walked along the woods bordering Green Lane, where there was nothing much of note.
Beacon Academy/North Beeches Road
WHITE WAGTAIL: 1(on the school buildings)
Pied Wagtail: 3 (with the WHITE WAGTAIL)
House Sparrow: 8 (in the hedges at the entrance to the school)
Pocket Park NR
Carrion Crow: 2 (flying over)
Magpie: 1 (flying over)
Blue Tit: 4 (feeding in the copse)
Blackcap: 1 (in the scrub)
Goldfinch: 5 (flying over before landing in the copse)
Song Thrush: 1 (flying into the scrub)
Dunnock: 2 (male and female mating)
Blackbird: 1 (male in the copse)
Green Lane
Nuthatch: 1 (calling from deep in the woods)
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 2 (calling to one another)
Robin: 1 (one singing from the scrub bordering the road)
My Garden
Wren: 1 (calling early morning)
Jackdaw: 3 (again I was not present for the roosting count)
Chaffinch: 2 (flying over but not migrants)
Woodpigeon: 12 (heading South so likely migrants)
Song Thrush: 1 (singing quietly early morning)
Starling: 3 (I was not present for the roosting count)
Carrion Crow: 2 (usual pair)
Siskin: 6 (usual group flying over several times)
Goldfinch: 1 (low numbers, a possible migrant)
Robin: 1 (singing from the conifers)
Blackbird: 1 (male feeding on the lawn)
House Sparrow: 3 (one adult, two juvenile)
Blue Tit: 1 (calling from the conifers)
Collared Dove: 1 (flying over)
SKYLARK: 7 (heading South, Crowborough's 2nd)
Herring Gull: 3 (usual autumn numbers, including one juvenile)
Magpie: 4 (two pairs)
18/10/2018
The most exciting news from today was of Crowborough's second 'White Wagtail', the continental subspecies of our Pied Wagtail. The first bird was a returning adult which overwintered on Pilmer Road in the winters of 2015 and 2016. Today's bird was on North Beeches Road, at the far end, on the roofs near the school entrance. I saw it at around 1000 hrs but the views were hardly good, but later I revisited the area and got much better views, although sadly no photos.
Beacon Academy/North Beeches Road
WHITE WAGTAIL: 1 (on the roofs of the houses on the corner)
Pied Wagtail: 4 (mostly adults)
Pocket Park NR
Blue Tit: 1 (feeding with LTTs)
Long-tailed Tit: 8 (at least 8 feeding in the treetops)
Carrion Crow: 1 (flying over)
Nuthatch: 1 (calling)
Wren: 2 (calling from the scrub)
Dunnock: 1 (singing from deep in the willow scrub)
My Garden
Blackbird: 1 (on the lawn)
Blue Tit: 2 (in the lilac)
Robin: 1 (one calling from the gardens beyond)
Wren: 1 (one calling loudly early morning)
Carrion Crow: 1 (one flying over)
House Sparrow: 2 (low numbers in the lilac)
Jackdaw: 2 (two on the chimney pots)
Woodpigeon: 2 (feeding on the lawn)
Starling: 3 (flying over)
Siskin: 2 (flying over)
Herring Gull: 2 (flying over)
Goldfinch: 1 (one landed in the conifers)
Coal Tit: 1 (in the conifers)
Collared Dove: 1 (feeding on the lawn)
Magpie: 2 (in the line of trees)
Great Tit: 2 (singing)
Goldcrest: 1 (singing)
Greenfinch: 1 (calling as it flew over)
Chaffinch: 1 (calling)
17/10/2018
I was out for a similar length of time as I was yesterday in my garden, so I recorded a decent number of species, including my second Great Spotted Woodpecker in my garden, and also my second Marsh Tit, also for the garden, but I was unable to get to any other part of Crowborough today.
Pilmer Area
Nuthatch: 1
My Garden
Blackbird: 1 (male on the lawn)
House Sparrow: 8 (my biggest count this year)
Great Tit: 1 (one male singing)
Blue Tit: 2 (calling from the conifers)
Woodpigeon: 2 (flying out from the conifers)
Jackdaw: 7 (I did not see the roosting flock so there were probably more than this)
Robin: 1 (male singing from our elder bushes)
Goldfinch: 3 (an improvement on yesterday's pitiful one, and more like the normal count)
Siskin: 6 (one large flock, although small flocks of 1/2 birds flew over throughout the day)
Starling: 5 (again, I did not see the roosting flock)
Black-headed Gull: 20 (building up to the large winter flocks)
Herring Gull: 10 (of which at least half were juveniles)
Carrion Crow: 2 (the usual pair again)
Greenfinch: (two flew over)
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER: 1 (second for my garden list)
Magpie: 4 (two pairs)
Goldcrest: 2 ( the usual two, I imagine)
Pied Wagtail: 2 (average number for this time of year)
Chiffchaff: 1 (singing?!)
MARSH TIT: 1 (feeding in the conifers/calling with Blue Tits)
16/10/2018
I was out in my garden for quite a long time today, and I made another visit to the Pocket Park NR, which was very quiet. The highlights from my garden included a Jay from inside the woodland, and a single Siskin that flew South around late afternoon.
Pocket Park NR
Blue Tit: 1 (feeding in the treetops)
Carrion Crow: 1 (flying over)
Herring Gull: 2 (flying over)
Woodpigeon: 4 (flying over)
Chiffchaff: 1 (calling, but not singing this time)
My Garden
Robin: 2 (probably the same two males singing)
Starling: 6 (I was not present at roosting time)
Blue Tit: 1 (in the lilac)
Black-headed Gull: 1 (flying over)
Woodpigeon: 5 (erupted out of the trees again)
Song Thrush: 1 (very quietly singing)
Blackbird: 1 (male feeding off rotten apples on the lawn)
Jackdaw: 50 (put up by a raptor which I could not locate)
Collared Dove: 4 (two pairs as far as I can tell)
Carrion Crow: 1 (flying over)
Goldfinch: 1 (flying over)
House Sparrow: 2 (in the lilac and later on the roof as usual)
Goldcrest: 1 (in the conifers)
Siskin: 1 (flew over around late afternoon)
Jay: 1 (my first record for a while)
15/10/2018
Very much the same again, despite rather nicer weather. In my garden, the highlight was a singing Chiffchaff, possibly the same one as I had last Friday. I also visited the Pocket Park NR, and the best bird there was another singing Chiffchaff.
Pocket Park NR
Chiffchaff: 1 (singing from the scrub)
Nuthatch: 1 (calling from in the copse)
Blue Tit: 2 (feeding in the treetops)
Pied Wagtail: 1 (flying over)
Herring Gull: 2 (flying over)
Great Tit: 3 (feeding with the Blue Tits)
My Garden
Chiffchaff: 1 (singing)
Blackbird: 2 (on the lawn)
Robin: 1 (behind the lilac singing)
Blue Tit: 1 (in the lilac)
House Sparrow: 2 (also in the lilac)
14/10/2018
Not such a nice day. I was out in the morning, and by the afternoon rain had set in, and the rest of the day was almost a washout. I logged a few species, mostly from my dry and warm house, but there was nothing out of the ordinary by any stretch of the imagination.
My Garden
House Sparrow: 2 (male and female in the lilac)
Robin: 2 (probably the two males still going at each other)
Blackbird: 1 (male feeding on the lawn)
Blue Tit: 1 (one calling from the conifers)
Goldcrest: 1 (seen on the conifers through the window with binoculars!)
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Crowborough, 09/10/2018 - 13/10/2018
13/10/2018
Again, sadly, little time for bird watching today in my garden, but again decent, although less than yesterday, numbers of Starlings and Jackdaws roosting, also two Siskin over.
Siskin: 2 (two flew over around late afternoon)
Blue Tit: 5 (2 adults and 3 juveniles)
Jackdaw: 10 (back to the numbers seen on the 10th)
House Sparrow: 1 (one flew in late in the evening)
Starling: 20 (again, a mixture of adult and juvenile birds)
12/10/2018
A quiet day on the birding front, with a little breeze, but I did not get much birding in, hence the rather low numbers etc. recorded. The main event of the day was the massive gathering of Jackdaws and Starlings just as the sun was setting.
Blackbird: 2 (two early on as usual on my lawn)
Blue Tit: 1 (one heard but not seen in the trees beyond my garden)
Robin: 1 (one of the pair of the last two days singing)
Jackdaw: 30 (a typically large winter flock originating from further down the hill)
Starling: 50 (a winter swarm flew over my garden consisting of both adult and juvenile birds)
Goldcrest: 2 (heard late on singing from the conifers at the end of my garden)
11/10/2018
A much better day even than yesterday, with lovely sunshine and clear skies, and I managed to find some of the really common species that I had dipped on in my short periods of time spent out in my garden over the last two days. It was good to see 6 Siskin flying over, the highest number I have seen here this week, although I only saw half as many Pied Wagtails flying over as I did yesterday. The biggest surprise of the day was the Chiffchaff that was in the vicinity of my garden pretty much all day, every now and again starting to sing!
Siskin: 6 (flying over my garden, the highest number recorded this week)
Redwing: 1 (flying over my garden)
Blackbird: 2 (feeding on my lawn)
Woodpigeon: 10 (erupted from the trees before an angry Carrion Crow charged through!)
Magpie: 2 (the presumed usual pair in the treetops)
Blue Tit: 2 (two feeding in my lilac, which currently has a flower out!)
Robin: 2 (the same two as yesterday singing)
Pied Wagtail: 2 (flying over my garden)
Coal Tit: 2 (two calling from the conifers at the end of my garden)
Jackdaw: 5 (down on yesterdays count at roosting time)
Carrion Crow: 1 (the usual)
Song Thrush: 1 (singing?!)
House Sparrow: 5 (in the same lilac as the Blue Tits)
Great Tit: 2 (two presumed males singing)
Collared Dove: 2 (on my roof)
Wren: 1 (one roosting under my neighbour's eaves)
Goldfinch: 4 (flying over my garden)
Starling: 3 (landed on my neighbour's TV aerial to preen)
Black-headed Gull: 2 (soared high over my garden around evening)
Chaffinch: 1 (one headed south over my garden - a migrant perhaps?)
Goldcrest: 2 (two singing in the conifers beyond my garden)
Chiffchaff: 1 (one singing around my garden all day)
10/10/2018
A slightly better day, and I was out for longer, especially late afternoon. Highlights were the couple of Siskin over late afternoon, along with the 4 Pied Wagtails I recorded around midday. Later that evening, between 2005 hrs and 2023 hrs I recorded 2 each of Song Thrush and Redwing over.
Pennybridge Lake:
My Garden
Siskin: 2 (over my garden mid afternoon)
Redwing: 2 (over my garden between 2005 hrs and 2023 hrs)
Blackbird: 1 (feeding on the lawn early on)
Robin: 2 (two males singing from either side of my garden)
Pied Wagtail: 4 (flying over mid to late afternoon)
Coal Tit: 2 (calling in the conifers at the end of my garden)
Jackdaw: 10 (beginning to form the usual large winter flocks in the evenings near my garden)
Carrion Crow: 1 (stirring up the Jackdaws as usual over my garden)
Song Thrush: 2 (over my garden between 2005 hrs and 2023 hrs)
09/10/2018
A rather dull day today, so not much to be seen, added to the fact that I was only out and about in my garden for a short while at midday and then later at night, doing some nocturnal vis-migging. The day's highlight was seen at around 2021 hrs when Crowborough's second Mute Swan flew over. I knew it was Mute Swan by the large dark shape that I could just see and by the sound that the wings were making.
My Garden
Blackbird: 2 (on my lawn)
Woodpigeon: 2 (also on the lawn)
Magpie: 8 (at least 8 all in the line of trees beyond my garden)
Blue Tit: 2 (in the trees beyond my garden)
MUTE SWAN: 1 (2021 hrs)
Again, sadly, little time for bird watching today in my garden, but again decent, although less than yesterday, numbers of Starlings and Jackdaws roosting, also two Siskin over.
Siskin: 2 (two flew over around late afternoon)
Blue Tit: 5 (2 adults and 3 juveniles)
Jackdaw: 10 (back to the numbers seen on the 10th)
House Sparrow: 1 (one flew in late in the evening)
Starling: 20 (again, a mixture of adult and juvenile birds)
12/10/2018
A quiet day on the birding front, with a little breeze, but I did not get much birding in, hence the rather low numbers etc. recorded. The main event of the day was the massive gathering of Jackdaws and Starlings just as the sun was setting.
Blackbird: 2 (two early on as usual on my lawn)
Blue Tit: 1 (one heard but not seen in the trees beyond my garden)
Robin: 1 (one of the pair of the last two days singing)
Jackdaw: 30 (a typically large winter flock originating from further down the hill)
Starling: 50 (a winter swarm flew over my garden consisting of both adult and juvenile birds)
Goldcrest: 2 (heard late on singing from the conifers at the end of my garden)
11/10/2018
A much better day even than yesterday, with lovely sunshine and clear skies, and I managed to find some of the really common species that I had dipped on in my short periods of time spent out in my garden over the last two days. It was good to see 6 Siskin flying over, the highest number I have seen here this week, although I only saw half as many Pied Wagtails flying over as I did yesterday. The biggest surprise of the day was the Chiffchaff that was in the vicinity of my garden pretty much all day, every now and again starting to sing!
Siskin: 6 (flying over my garden, the highest number recorded this week)
Redwing: 1 (flying over my garden)
Blackbird: 2 (feeding on my lawn)
Woodpigeon: 10 (erupted from the trees before an angry Carrion Crow charged through!)
Magpie: 2 (the presumed usual pair in the treetops)
Blue Tit: 2 (two feeding in my lilac, which currently has a flower out!)
Robin: 2 (the same two as yesterday singing)
Pied Wagtail: 2 (flying over my garden)
Coal Tit: 2 (two calling from the conifers at the end of my garden)
Jackdaw: 5 (down on yesterdays count at roosting time)
Carrion Crow: 1 (the usual)
Song Thrush: 1 (singing?!)
House Sparrow: 5 (in the same lilac as the Blue Tits)
Great Tit: 2 (two presumed males singing)
Collared Dove: 2 (on my roof)
Wren: 1 (one roosting under my neighbour's eaves)
Goldfinch: 4 (flying over my garden)
Starling: 3 (landed on my neighbour's TV aerial to preen)
Black-headed Gull: 2 (soared high over my garden around evening)
Chaffinch: 1 (one headed south over my garden - a migrant perhaps?)
Goldcrest: 2 (two singing in the conifers beyond my garden)
Chiffchaff: 1 (one singing around my garden all day)
10/10/2018
A slightly better day, and I was out for longer, especially late afternoon. Highlights were the couple of Siskin over late afternoon, along with the 4 Pied Wagtails I recorded around midday. Later that evening, between 2005 hrs and 2023 hrs I recorded 2 each of Song Thrush and Redwing over.
Pennybridge Lake:
My Garden
Siskin: 2 (over my garden mid afternoon)
Redwing: 2 (over my garden between 2005 hrs and 2023 hrs)
Blackbird: 1 (feeding on the lawn early on)
Robin: 2 (two males singing from either side of my garden)
Pied Wagtail: 4 (flying over mid to late afternoon)
Coal Tit: 2 (calling in the conifers at the end of my garden)
Jackdaw: 10 (beginning to form the usual large winter flocks in the evenings near my garden)
Carrion Crow: 1 (stirring up the Jackdaws as usual over my garden)
Song Thrush: 2 (over my garden between 2005 hrs and 2023 hrs)
09/10/2018
A rather dull day today, so not much to be seen, added to the fact that I was only out and about in my garden for a short while at midday and then later at night, doing some nocturnal vis-migging. The day's highlight was seen at around 2021 hrs when Crowborough's second Mute Swan flew over. I knew it was Mute Swan by the large dark shape that I could just see and by the sound that the wings were making.
My Garden
Blackbird: 2 (on my lawn)
Woodpigeon: 2 (also on the lawn)
Magpie: 8 (at least 8 all in the line of trees beyond my garden)
Blue Tit: 2 (in the trees beyond my garden)
MUTE SWAN: 1 (2021 hrs)
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