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willowbogger s wildlife blog wildlife on willowbog farm home all time bird species list interesting sightings and daily bird lists nesting swans rules regarding recording of sightings view of main pond at willowbog willowbogger s wildlife blog entries rss comments rss pages all time bird species list interesting sightings and daily bird lists nesting swans rules regarding recording of sightings view of main pond at willowbog categories categories uncategorized 44 willowbog wildlife 2 archives march 2014 september 2013 may 2013 november 2012 september 2012 august 2012 may 2012 april 2012 february 2012 january 2012 january 2010 hello world posted on january 2 2010 by willowbogger i plan to post information regarding the wildlife seen on the 12 5 hectares that is willowbog farm it will include images and records of past sightings as well as on going hopefully daily observations and images peter filed under uncategorized 1 comment just a quick one posted on march 11 2014 by willowbogger just borrowing ian s post by all the comments that i have heard so far it was the best bsa show so far so pleased that we went out on a high bonsai eejit just a quick post from the bsa exhibition at willowbog bonsai an excellent display of trees to an even better standard from i was last here here s a few sample photos to get you going view original post filed under uncategorized leave a comment five corvids posted on september 5 2013 by willowbogger remiss of me not to have posted here for quite some time i am moved to do so today following the notable and rare occurrence of recording five british members of the crow family on our about the farm today first up the big daddy of the family the raven once only a very rare sighting here they are now very regular visitors if not quite every day birds a magnificent species to have around next up a species that really is recorded just about each and every day at willowbog the carrion crow not everyone s favourite but having its own place in the overall scheme of things despite probably playing a part in the notable absence now of ground nesters like lapwing and curlew we only seem to record jackdaws on their spring and autumn movements which is a shame as they are a personal favourite in the family it is that wonderful call that typically draws ones attention to them as they pass over often quite high up in small parties always reminds me of a childhood bird haunt in surrey the ruins of waverley abbey where the jackdaws nested in a colony as they often do the familiar black and white of the magpie has only quite recently become a regular sight for us at willowbog once just about never seen they are everyday records for our bird list and almost certainly nested on our land this year for the first time i love to see them falling into the same category as the previous are the jays that also probably nested with us this year another bird that was only rarely seen here they are also on the daily list in the diary most time arguably the most beautiful of the family and like the magpie are a delight to have around the day as a whole has been good for early september with about 25 different birds for the day weather has been good as well filed under willowbog wildlife tagged carrion crow corvid family jackdaws jay magpie raven willowbog birds leave a comment best day of the year so far posted on may 2 2013 by willowbogger in terms of the total number of species seen in a single day today has been the best of the year so far thirty four different birds about ten short of our best ever single day total but still a decent number we also recorded four species for the first time since they returned after the winter away house and sand martin our breeding sedge warblers are back and we heard the first cuckoo also notable was recording seven species of the finch family in a day chaffinch greenfinch goldfinch bullfinch siskin linnet and redpoll our female canada goose is sitting tight on a nest of eggs with her mate patrolling the pond and surrounding area there is a pair of little grebe seemingly breeding again as well as at least a couple of pairs of moorhen whilst it is nice to be able to see otters we are hoping not to get a visit to the pond as we did at this time last year which resulted in the decimation of all the water birds nests of course the lovely sunny weather has helped please may it continue a while yet filed under willowbog wildlife tagged 7 finches bullfinch canada goose chaffinchs goldfinch sedge warbler siskin summer visitors willowbog birds leave a comment a little out of the ordinary posted on november 9 2012 by willowbogger you do of course get huge variations in the plumage of pheasants though it always seems more commonly seen in the males this female is an attractive alternative to the norm here she was this afternoon happily sat atop the cotoneaster tucking into the berries much darker than the ones that usually frequent the garden filed under uncategorized tagged cotoneaster berries pheasant plumage variation leave a comment interesting day posted on november 6 2012 by willowbogger apart from the lovely waxings yesterday seen on a couple of occaisons another slightly interesting observation was recording five members of the corvid family on the one day a small flock of jackdaws flew over in the morning quite high up and calling otherwise i would never have noticed them a couple of ravens were about on and off through the day and we had magpies and jays scavenging for food in the garden all day the jays actually cling on the peanut feeders and eat the nuts and the fifth the ever present carrion crows filed under uncategorized tagged crow family leave a comment beautiful winter visitors posted on november 5 2012 by willowbogger a small flock of waxwings briefly in the garden five minutes ago striking birds filed under uncategorized tagged waxwings leave a comment infrequent summer visitor posted on september 28 2012 by willowbogger we see redstarts several times during the course of most years usually spring and autumn we had what looked like a juvenile male in the garden this morning nice birds to have about though and i have made a mental note to myself to make time during the winter to get more next boxes of all shapes and sizes made and put up before next years breeding season no reason why we should not get redstarts nesting on the farm particularly now that our trees planting schemes are starting to mature not my photo above filed under uncategorized tagged nest boxes redstarts summer visitors leave a comment pond activity posted on september 27 2012 by willowbogger after what seems a long summer period with the main pond deserted or almost deserted it is nice to have a few birds swimming about the two mute swans that i mentioned a few days ago that my wife s photo here shows as well as our solitary juvenile moorhen still puzzled as to why it s parents left and we have also had a hand full of mallards visiting of and on so something at least to watch filed under uncategorized tagged mallard moorhen mute swan leave a comment vital statistics posted on september 23 2012 by willowbogger being a wee bit incapacitated by having tweaked my back the other day i sat down to catch up with some of the very basic statistical analysis that i do of the daily bird sightings that we record it is so basic that all it amounts to is collating the daily average for each month as it is completed we began to do this in 1992 which if my mental arithmetic serves amounts to exactly 20 years of records which might be of not much practical use to anyone but is at least interesting to us to look back on the monthly averages are recorded on a year by year basis and it is this monthly average comparison that i have just had a quick look at and it is interesting the january average for this year was at 15 03 species per day the equal best ever for this month a direct consequence of a more intensive feeding regime maybe but at least also in part due to the maturing of various tree and shrub planting which provides both more cover and food it was our best february ever over these 20 years with a daily average of 17 35 which compared to the previous best february average of 15 46 nearly an extra 2 species a day is quite a jump reasons as mentioned above i imagine march april and may averages were pretty much typical for these months over the years though there have been peaks and troughs as you would imagine we had the third worst ever june with a figure of 16 43 compare this to the fact that the two best ever monthly averages over the two decades were both june months with figures of 30 13 in 1996 and 28 50 in 1997 the difference is huge and can only in part be put down to the poor weather through this so called summer the water birds normally associated with a successful breeding season on the main pond were seriously affected by the visit of otters during the critical period there are definitely other factors that impinge on this dramatic difference in averages which i would like to discuss here at a different time as in june the july figure was the third worst ever same factors apply we have just had a fairly normal august for bird numbers as i said at the start it may be that these figures are of interest to only ourselves as long term occupiers of the land the records relate to bird species that are recorded either by sight or by sound as being anywhere on or above the willowbog farm area filed under uncategorized tagged bird sighting statistics over a 20 year period birds of willowbog leave a comment rare visitors posted on september 23 2012 by willowbogger every year on just a few occasions a few of these birds visit the peanut feeders in our garden although these two rudely have their backs to the camera you can just make out that they are house sparrows though of course not really rare though not as common as they once were i think for some reason we do not see them very often at the village of stonehaugh only about half a mile away as the sparrow flies there always seems to be plenty about when we see them this species always merits a comment between my good lady and me filed under uncategorized tagged house sparrow peanut feeders rare visitors leave a comment next page recent comments phil on otters aga willowbogger on early this morning graham watson on early this morning willowbogger on scene of crime rachelannfrench on scene of crime blogroll http nwt org uk http rspb org uk http willowbog bonsai co uk http www bto org nature photographer wildlife tours in the northern region willowbogger s blog blog at wordpress com wp designer willowbogger s wildlife blog create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed willowbogger s wildlife blog sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy willowbogger s wildlife blog subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions 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