Birds Been Framed

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European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) >>by Francesco Veronesi

Fantastic bee-eaters

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Hoopoe (Upupa epops) >>by Michele Nespoli

One of my favourite birds that I have yet to see in Britain…

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Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) >>by Magnus Tjärnskog

A beautiful male bullfinch. You can’t beat a bit of bully!

Farnham Heath - 22/8/15

12:45PM - 14:45PM - 1 tree pipit, 1 Dartford warbler, 8 stonechats, 3 kestrels, 15+ coal tits, 5 great tits, 5 long-tailed tits, 3 chaffinches, 2 goldcrests, 2 willow warblers and 1 wren.

Juvenile stonechat

Banstead Woods - 23/7/15

9:20AM - 11:15AM - 5 bullfinches (1 female, 4 juveniles), 10+ linnets, 3 greenfinches, 4 goldfinches, 6 green woodpeckers (1 juvenile), 3 stock doves, 1 treecreeper, 4 long-tailed tits, 7 great tits, 3 blue tits, 1 jay, 3 chiffchaffs, 2 willow warblers and 5 robins. Other wildlife include rabbits, grey squirrels and butterflies.

Comma butterfly on my shorts

Thursley Common - 10/7/15

13:30PM - 16:30PM - 6 redstarts, 1 Dartford warbler, 4 stonechats, 1 buzzard, 1 green woodpecker, 15+ swifts, 3 house martins, 25 mallards, 6 goldfinches, 4 greenfinches, 1 jay and 5 blue tits. Other wildlife include 2 common lizards, a rabbit and many butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies.

Male redstart

Chobham Common - 27/6/15

10:45AM - 13:00PM - 5 Dartford warblers, 6 linnets, 1 woodlark, 2 skylarks, 5 stonechats, 1 kestrel, 1 coal tit, 1 blue tit, 2 goldfinches and 5 chiffchaffs. Other wildlife include a roe deer, a slow worm, newts and broad-bodied chaser dragonflies.

Woodlark

Roe deer

London Wetland Centre - 28/5/15

10:00AM - 15:30PM - 2 little ringed plovers, 4 common terns, 20+ lapwings (including 3 chicks), 3 reed warblers, 8 pochards, 3 shovelers, 4 gadwalls, 40+ tufted ducks, 20+ mallards, 1 great spotted woodpecker, 1 green woodpecker, 1 jay, 20+ sand martins, 20+ swifts, 1 song thrush, 5 grey herons, 1 cormorant, 3 chaffinches, 3 goldfinches, 6 great tits, 4 blue tits, 1 wren, 3 robins, 2 ring-necked parakeets, 20+ moorhens, 40+ coots, 5 mute swans, 10 Canada geese, 2 Egyptian geese, 1 great crested grebe, 20+ black-headed gulls, 20+ herring gulls and 15+ lesser black-backed gulls. A Cetti’s warbler could be heard.

Little ringed plover nesting

Common tern nesting

Male pochard

Adult lapwing and chick

Papercourt Meadows - 19/4/15

11:30AM - 14:00PM - 4 whitethroats, 6 linnets, 6 skylarks, 4 reed buntings, 1 sedge warbler, 1 blackcap, 1 kestrel, 1 mistle thrush, 1 jay, 6 chaffinches, 2 goldfinches, 15+ blue tits, 15+ great tits, 6 mallards, 1 mute swan, 2 wrens, 1 robin, 2 blackbirds, 3 cormorants and 1 coot. Many pheasants could be heard.

Male whitethroat

Male linnet

Stanwell and Staines Moors - 22/3/15

10:00AM - 11:45AM - 2 water pipits, 10+ meadow pipits, 2 skylarks, 5 reed buntings, 10 chiffchaffs, 1 kestrel, 3 song thrushes, 4 redwings, 1 pheasant, 3 greenfinches, 15+ goldfinches, 2 goldcrests, 6 blue tits, 5 great tits, 5 long-tailed tits, 7 robins, 5 blackbirds, 1 wren, 2 dunnocks, 1 ring-necked parakeet, 2 moorhens, 1 mallard and 2 Canada geese.

Male reed bunting