SPRAGGLESEA
MEAD & DEAN’S HAM ALLOTMENTS
Bird
List
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Map. Click here to view.
The following is a list of the birds I have seen from my plot since starting working on it in 1991. Those marked (*) have nested on or on the periphery of the site.
Resident Birds
|
Great Crested Grebe* |
Little grebe* |
Cormorant |
|
Grey Heron* |
Mute Swan* |
Canada Goose* |
|
Mallard* |
Red Kite |
Sparrowhawk |
|
Common Buzzard |
Kestrel |
Peregrine |
|
Grey Partridge |
Pheasant |
Moorhen* |
|
Coot* |
Black-headed Gull |
Herring Gull |
|
Woodpigeon* |
Collared Dove* |
Green Woodpecker* |
|
Great Spotted Woodpecker* |
Wren* |
Dunnock* |
|
Robin* |
Blackbird* |
Song Thrush* |
|
Goldcrest* |
Blue Tit* |
Great Tit* |
|
Coal Tit |
Long-tailed Tit* |
Treecreeper* |
|
Starling |
Jay* |
Magpie* |
|
Jackdaw |
Carrion Crow |
Rook |
|
House Sparrow* |
Chaffinch* |
Greenfinch* |
|
Goldfinch |
Reed Bunting* |
|
Summer
Visitors
|
Common Tern* |
Pied Wagtail |
Swift* |
|
Swallow* |
House Martin* |
Blackcap* |
|
Willow Warbler* |
Chiffchaff* |
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Winter
Visitors
|
Wigeon |
Teal |
Tufted Duck |
|
Fieldfare |
Redwing |
Mistle Thrush |
|
Siskin |
|
|
Rarities
|
Slavonian Grebe |
White-fronted Goose |
Egyptian Goose |
|
Gadwall |
Pochard |
Red-breasted
Merganser |
|
Oystercatcher |
Common Sandpiper |
Tawny Owl |
|
Lapwing |
Great Black-backed
Gull |
Cuckoo* |
|
Kingfisher* |
Skylark |
Bullfinch |
|
Redpoll |
Lesser Whitethroat*[1] |
|
[1] Once a regular summer visitor I have not seen or heard this bird since the construction of the
Railtrack Quarry.