Saturday 28th September - Home

A repeating agenda of dropping off and picking up for school sports, so I had a couple of hours in between at home - from around 8.30 to 10.30, with an overcast sky, low cloud and a brisk Easterly, it was still  mild enough to sit outside. The theme was movement of hirundines, with a large number of mainly House Martins. I counted 95 birds heading East with 35 Swallows. There were more birds around but I was being too careful not to double count as they spent some time hawking for food before passing through. There was also a decent number of Meadow Pipits (35N).  For the morning watch I recorded 29 species, the remaining were :-

Jackdaw
Magpie
Raven 1 (twice)
Carrion Crow
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Green Woodpecker 1
Mistle Thrush 3
Robin 3
Dunnock
Wren 2
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit 5
Marsh Tit 1
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Nuthatch 2
Chaffinch (8N)
Pied Wagtail 2
Chiffchaff 3
Blackcap 1
Siskin 1
Greenfinch 5
Goldfinch 2
Sparrowhawk 2 female
Starling
Woodpigeon
Stock Dove