Mike Smith
Location: Purley on Thames
Email: msmith8741@gmail.com
Recent sightings
Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
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26/04/24 | Garden Warbler | River Thames Meadows at Purley | 1 | M J Smith |
15:03 | Singing briefly in same bushes as Lesser Whitethroat before flying towards Spring Farm. | |||
26/04/24 | Lesser Whitethroat | River Thames Meadows at Purley | 1 | M J Smith |
15:03 | Singing in "starling bushes" east of Sulbrook joining the Thames. | |||
24/04/24 | Cuckoo | River Thames Meadows at Purley | 1 | M J Smith |
19:30 | male. Heard calling from Purley allotments, somewhere between Field farm and Mapledurham Lock, after 5 mins moved about 500 metres West and recalled, bird unlikely to stay. | |||
24/04/24 | Grey Wagtail | River Thames Meadows at Purley | 1 | M J Smith |
16:30 | Flew from new fish pass and downstream over Mapledurham lock. | |||
24/04/24 | Swallow | River Thames Meadows at Purley | 2 | M J Smith |
16:00 | Hawking insects over Mapledurham lock & weir. | |||
24/04/24 | Goosander | River Thames Meadows at Purley | 1 | M J Smith |
16:00 | male. Pylon field Thames West of Mapledurham Lock, also a large (dog?) Otter swimming fast down stream towards Mapledurham Mill weir, first sighting of Otter since March last year. | |||
17/04/24 | Cetti's Warbler | River Thames Meadows at Purley | 1 | M J Smith |
15:24 | Singing opposite oratory rowing club, Berks bank. SU652773. | |||
11/04/24 | Common Sandpiper | Saltney Mead | 1 | M J Smith |
14:30 | In basin where Sulbrook meets the Thames, flew upstream towards Pangbourne. First on my Thames patch for many years. | |||
05/04/24 | Chiffchaff | Purley on Thames, Reading | 3 | M J Smith |
14:17 | A third bird now arrived, still 2 alive in my hedgeline. | |||
05/04/24 | Chiffchaff | Purley on Thames, Reading | 2 | M J Smith |
13:37 | 2 birds in my hedgeline and chasing each other about, sadly 1 has just been chased into a house window. |