Birds
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Regular updates have been arriving from local birders Maurice Nauta and Brian Chapman, keeping NWT in touch with the range of birds seen at Ashing Lane Nature Reserve.
A total of 74 species have been recorded, with goldfinches and rooks by far the most frequently observed birds throughout the year and large flocks of fieldfares arriving in the winter. Barn owls are also regularly seen quartering the meadows and rides. Find out more about these birds on the RSPB website using their bird guide. Birds marked in red are species that are considered in need of urgent conservation action and are globally threatened with a 50% decline in the breeding population over the last 25 years. Amber denotes species decline, green list birds are of least concern for conservation action. This information was taken from "Birds of Conservation Concern 4". Here is a summary of birds observed by our recorders over the last nearly three years. |
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Blackcap
Black Headed Gull Blackbird Blue Tit Bullfinch Buzzard Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal tit Collared Dove Common Barn Owl Coot Cormorant Dunnock Feral pigeon Fieldfare Garden Warbler |
Golden Plover
Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker Greenfinch Greenshank Grey heron Grey Partridge Grey Wagtail Greylag Goose Herring Gull House Sparrow Jackdaw Jacksnipe Jay Kestrel Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull |
Lesser Whitethroat
Linnet Little Egret Little Owl Long tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Meadow Pipit Mistle Thrush Moorhen Mute Swan Pheasant Pied Wagtail (yarrelli) Red breasted Merganser Red-legged Partridge Redwing Reed Bunting Robin Rook |
Sand Martin
Sedge Warbler Skylark Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Starling Stock Dove Swallow Swift Tawny Owl Tree Pipit Tree Sparrow Whitethroat Willow Warbler Woodcock Woodpigeon Wren Yellow Wagtail Yellowhammer |
Susie Mendel photographed a coot and cootlings on Coop Lake in June 2018
Stuart Dallas, a member of the NWT group, took this amazing picture of a tawny owl. It wasn't taken at ALNR, but this is an orange list species that has been recorded there.
Mark Johnson caught this amazing shot of four brand new greylag goslings on Coop Lake in spring 2016 - thank you Mark! Aren't they wonderful? Please watch out for fledglings and keep dogs under control.