1:15pm. Weather: bright & sunny, cold, easterly breeze.
Fortune Green Entrance:
Chaffinch, Crow, Goldfinch.
Woodpigeon - later, at least 18 counted in a large pine tree on the south-side.
Redwing - over 20 all over the south-side of the cemetery, chucking & pseeping.
Blackbird, Black-Headed Gull.
South-side:
Jay - flitting ahead, flashing white-rump.
Greenfinch, Robin, Magpie, Blue Tit.
Song Thrush - briefly singing.
Pitches:
Starling - gulls.
Brambles:
House Sparrow - 3 males in brambles, after hearing them calling.
Wren - heard from brambles near to sparrows.
Great-Spotted Woodpecker - heard back at south-side.
Exit:
Great Tit,
Goldcrest - heard from centre pine but foliage was too thick to find it.
15 species.
Saturday 28 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
Hampstead Cemetery, West Hampstead, London, 15/11/2009
11:30am. Weather: bright & sunny, cool, still.
Patch visit during which I found an alternate & more secluded path which yielded more species than usual.
South-side:
Woodpigeon, Magpie, Great Tit, Robin, Blue Tit, Crow, Blackbird, Goldfinch (over).
Redwing - several more than previous visits, noisily foraging amongst the foliage.
Blackcap - as I watched the redwings, a surprise grey bird came into view also foraging. A female, over-wintering & the first time I have encountered one doing so.
Song Thrush - flicked away quickly through the understorey then heard singing.
Goldcrest - heard singing in the pines then seen with a Long-Tailed Tit feeding party.
Coal Tit, Jay, Greenfinch (heard).
Great-Spotted Woodpecker - amongst the trees tapping here & there.
North-side:
Wren (heard),
Playing Fields:
Black-Headed Gull, Common Gull, Starling.
Rememberance Garden:
Herring Gull (over).
Fortune Green Gate:
Greenfinch - 4 over.
22 species.
Patch visit during which I found an alternate & more secluded path which yielded more species than usual.
South-side:
Woodpigeon, Magpie, Great Tit, Robin, Blue Tit, Crow, Blackbird, Goldfinch (over).
Redwing - several more than previous visits, noisily foraging amongst the foliage.
Blackcap - as I watched the redwings, a surprise grey bird came into view also foraging. A female, over-wintering & the first time I have encountered one doing so.
Song Thrush - flicked away quickly through the understorey then heard singing.
Goldcrest - heard singing in the pines then seen with a Long-Tailed Tit feeding party.
Coal Tit, Jay, Greenfinch (heard).
Great-Spotted Woodpecker - amongst the trees tapping here & there.
North-side:
Wren (heard),
Playing Fields:
Black-Headed Gull, Common Gull, Starling.
Rememberance Garden:
Herring Gull (over).
Fortune Green Gate:
Greenfinch - 4 over.
22 species.
Saturday 7 November 2009
Hampstead Cemetery, West Hampstead, London, 07/11/2009
11am. Weather: bright & sunny, cool.
Nice morning walk with Kim.
South-side:
Woodpigeon, Great Tit, Jay, Blackbird, Goldfinch, Magpie.
Redwing - a few winter visitors flitting amongst the larger trees, pines & shrubs.
Green Woodpecker - close by & into a larger tree near the centre building.
Centre:
Long-Tailed Tit, Blue Tit.
Crow - high up, to the east, harrassing a Sparrowhawk, site tick.
North-side:
House Sparrow, Wren, Greenfinch - all around the large brambles.
Robin.
16 species.
Nice morning walk with Kim.
South-side:
Woodpigeon, Great Tit, Jay, Blackbird, Goldfinch, Magpie.
Redwing - a few winter visitors flitting amongst the larger trees, pines & shrubs.
Green Woodpecker - close by & into a larger tree near the centre building.
Centre:
Long-Tailed Tit, Blue Tit.
Crow - high up, to the east, harrassing a Sparrowhawk, site tick.
North-side:
House Sparrow, Wren, Greenfinch - all around the large brambles.
Robin.
16 species.
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