Birds
| Birds | ||
| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
| Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
| Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| Chiff Chaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
| Coal Tit | Parus ater | |
| Crow | Corvus corone | |
| Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
| Dunnock | Prunella modularis | |
| Fieldfare | Turdis pilaris | |
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
| Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | |
| Great Tit | Parus major | |
| Herring gull | Larus argentatus | |
| House Martin | Delichon urbica | |
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Linnet | Acanthis cannabina | |
| Long Tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |
| Magpie | Pica pica | |
| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
| Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | |
| Pied Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Red Kite | Milvis milvus | |
| Red Legged Partridge | Alectoris rufa | |
| Rose-ringed parakeet | Psittacula krameri | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | |
| Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Rook | Corvus frugilegus | |
| Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Stonechat | Saxicola torquata | |
| Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Swift | Apus apus | |
| Tree Creeper | Certhia familiaris | Wood Pigeon | Columba palumbus |
| Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | |
Bullfinch
Buzzard
Goldfinch
Wren
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First sighting of a house martin on 2nd April.
First sighting of a swallow on 8th April.
Chiffchaff first heard in the Woodland on 3rd April
Big magpie seen hopping among the trees down by the skate park on 17 April.
First ever record of a goldcrest at the Quarr. This one was in the large conifers (Monterey cypress) at the (Quarr Lane Gate on 29th June 2010
Toni & Mary
october 2,2010 about 2pm
Saw a Treecreeper going up and down one of the large conifers
First recorded sighting of a tree creeper on the same conifer as the goldcrest
Seen on 2nd Oct. 2010
The chiffchaff is back with us again, having flown all the way up from S.Africa; we had a good view of it today in the Woodland and heard it calling loudly, a small insignificant little bird but an amazing traveller, arriving back to the Quarr a day later than the first sighting last year.
October 8th 2011
We checked the bird boxes in the Woodland to see which had been used over the spring and summer. Out of 14 boxes, 8 had remains of nests, probably tits.
This was the first season with the new metal plates around the nest holes in place – to protect against squirrel damage.