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| Cirl Bunting |
Dawn and I were joined by Gill and Noel for an afternoon picnic at the river - we sat under our favourite tree and watched over a nice stretch of the river. Our bird - bathing and drinking pool was in full use, we listed the following coming to drink or bathe:
1. Blue Tit
2. Great Tit
3. Long-tailed Tit
4. Willow Warbler
5. Greenfinch
6. Chaffinch
7. Goldfinch
8. Serin
9. Blackcap
10. Garden Warbler
11. Chicffchaff
12. Robin
13. Cirl Bunting
14. House Sparrow
15. Grey Wagtail
16. White Wagtail
17. Cetti's Warbler
other species recorded during our visit
18. Crag Martin
19. House Martin
20. Sand Martin
21. Barn swallow
22. Hoopoe
23. Southern grey shrike
24. Stonechat
25. Rock Sparrow
26. Kingfisher
27. Green Sandpiper
28. Common Sandpiper
29. Grey heron
30. Common Kestrel
31. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
32. Griffon Vulture
33. Black Stork (3 high over)
34. Spotless Starling
35. Great spotted Woodpecker
36. Short-toed treecreeper
37. Sardinian Warbler
38. Common Redstart
39. Pied Flycatcher
40. Wood Pigeon
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| Grey Wagtail near the drinking pool |
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| a very obliging Common Redstart let me approch very closely - then I realised why!! Can you see the large swelling at the back of the head? This is probably a large tumor and the bird is not well at all even though it seemed to be feeding OK as we watched it. See the picture below for a closer loo at the swelling. |
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