Date: Sun 20th Jan 2019
Species: Birds
Location: Kester's Docking and Froghall

1224 birds of 31 Species

A low mist hanging over the fields soon cleared into bright sunshine. My survey got off to an amazing start with a short-eared owl hunting over my first field on arrival followed by a fly over by two raven, the first recorded by me on this site.

Other highlights included a large female peregrine cruising over the fields and putting the flock of stock doves to flight, a merlin and two stonechat, after they were absent on the last survey. Linnet numbers have built up but are nowhere near the levels recorded last winter.

The full bird list included the following;

2              Blackbird

1              Black-headed gull

2              Blue tit

15            Carrion crow

5              Cormorant

1              Dunnock

4              Fieldfare

46            Goldfinches

2              Great tit

1              Grey heron

3              Greylag geese

2              Kestrel

915          Linnet

1              Magpies

4              Meadow pipits

1              Merlin

5              Mute swans

1              Peregrine

18            Pheasant

2              Raven

44            Reed bunting

1              Robin

1              Rough-legged buzzard

1              Short-eared owl

2              Skylark

40            Starlings

87            Stock dove

2              Stonechat

6              Teal

6              Woodpigeon

3              Wren

James Hitchcock (Great Fen Monitor)