Berkshire bird news
Sunday 24th October 2021
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| Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24/10/21 | Brambling | Common Wood, Streatley | 3 | D Tainton |
| 11:39 | ||||
| 24/10/21 | Bullfinch | Woose Hill | 1 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 08:25 | Recorded, first record of the year. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Brambling | Woose Hill | 5 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 07:27 | Recorded, both long and short calls. 4 separate recordings over the post-dawn period, and the first probably two birds . | |||
| 24/10/21 | Song Thrush | Woose Hill | 56 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 03:08 | Calls recorded in 5 hours from 22:08. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Redwing | Woose Hill | 464 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 03:08 | 464 calls recording in 5 hours from start of recording 22:08 (plenty of calls missed before this time). The busiest night of this autumn. Increasing wind slowed passage down, and by morning passage was light (flocks of 20-25 but few calls recorded). | |||
| 24/10/21 | Tawny Owl | Cookham Rise | 2 | B D Clews |
| 06:30 | Calling in High Road, per Derek Fry. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Peregrine | Maidenhead | 1 | B D Clews |
| 11:30 | On window ledge of BT building, West Street, where it used to be regularly seen. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Swallow | Newbury | 1 | A E Hickman |
| 12:30 | Flying south over fields south of Enborne road. First one I've seen for a few weeks. SU453661. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Song Thrush | Lower Basildon | 1 | A Taylor |
| 10:30 | Singing rather tentatively in trees near St Bartholomew's church. My first record of song this autumn. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Pink-footed Goose | Padworth Lane GP | 1 | R C Watts |
| 12:40 | With Greylags and two white birds. Thanks for the info Roger.👍. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Peregrine | Whiteknights Park, Reading | 2 | S Lynch |
| 13:13 | Old cole museum. SU734720. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Skylark | Reading | 1 | S A Graham |
| 10:30 | High West - seeing a lot of social media coverage of arriving migrants on east coast. SU697735. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Red-crested Pochard | Hosehill Lake, Theale GPs | 6 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
| 10:15 | 3m 3f. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Pink-footed Goose | Padworth Lane GP | 1 | R H Stansfield |
| 11:26 | Still showing well on the lake. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Song Thrush | Woose Hill | 1 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 09:00 | High >S. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Starling | Woose Hill | 1 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 09:00 | 125, all W. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Egyptian Goose | Woose Hill | 1 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 08:00 | To the E. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Skylark | Woose Hill | 2 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 09:00 | SW. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Redwing | Woose Hill | 170 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 09:00 | Several flocks of 20+, but all low. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Peregrine | Newbury BT Exchange | 1 | K G White |
| 08:33 | Mrs N just returned to BT high ledge with Feral Pigeon catch, hotly and determinedly pursued by a Carrion Crow all the way to the ledge. SU474669. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Red Kite | Newbury BT Exchange | 2 | K G White |
| 08:33 | Seem to be flying freely around BT without challenge. One clearly has a .22 sized hole in the newly moulted secondaries. SU474669. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Pink-footed Goose | Padworth Lane floods | 1 | A B Merrick |
| 07:45 | ad. grazing in stubble field with Greylags. SU613676. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Starling | Newbury BT Exchange | 250 | K G White |
| 07:40 | Flock came out of roost from R.Kennet trees near football ground. Went west low along the Kennet. SU474669. | |||
| 24/10/21 | Peregrine | Newbury BT Exchange | 2 | K G White |
| 07:27 | Mrs N appeared on top girder BT and then went off hunting. 3 sorties now (07.57) no catch yet. B69 also went off hunting 07.47 and waiting for his return. SU474669. | |||