South Sawbridgeworth 22 Sept

Patch walk with Mike Harris and David Sampson.

The list was:

Whinchat 1 in the chat field

Coal Tit 1 - common enough in the town but unusual on the patch

Long-tailed tit - 25, unless we saw the same group of 10 twice.

Blue Tit 9

Great Tit 8

Dunnock 12

Robin 20+

Wren 2

Blackbird 2

Chaffinch 6

Goldfinch 7

Bullfinch 3

Greenfinch 2

Magpie 3

Jay 7. The majority moving SE or E - migrants?

Starling 1

Rook NC

Carrion Crow NC

Jackdaw NC

LBBG 1

Willow Chiff 11 seen. Nearly all ChiffChaffs

Willow Warbler 1 on Brook Road

Collared Dove 1 on Brook road.

Blackcap 2

Green Woodpecker 3

Great Spotted Woodpecker 2

Nuthatch 1

Meadow Pipit c20

Skylark 4 minimum

Reed Bunting 1

Goldcrest 1

House sparrow 1

Sparrowhawk 1

Kestrel 3

Buzzard 3

Mallard 4

Moorhen 1

Swallow 1

House Martin 55

Stock Dove 1

Wood Pigeon NC 

Pheasant 1

A couple of photo's taken by David Sampson - the Whinchat against the light and a juvenile Green woodpecker.

And the following day 2 Grey Wagtails on Southbrook - the first here in the second half of the year