Mostly Birding, bad photos, Reptiles & other Wildlife. Birding Hampstead Heath/Parliament Hill, London. 18 (Only birding on this account)
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In total in 2020, 105 species of bird were seen on Hampstead Heath including: Crossbill, Cuckoo, Marsh Harrier, Mealy Redpoll, Pied Flycatcher, Ring Ouzel, Hawfinch, Golden Plover, Firecrest, Bullfinch & many others! Well done everyone!馃コ (will add the full summary to my blog)
Whimbrel flying south over Hampstead Heath tonight! A nice new patch bird (110) on my first day back from uni! @LondonBirdClub
Plenty of raptors up on Ditchling Beacon just now including male Hen Harrier, Peregrine & 4 Red Kite @SussexBirding
Sabines Gull & Leach鈥檚 Petrel W past Brighton Marina since midday, @SussexBirding
A few of todays Leach鈥檚 Petrels a nice lifer from today in a brief 1-2pm seawatch. One possible Euro Storm Petrel & a single Brent also. New patch is coming along quite well
A solid two days of migration on Hampstead Heath which has included Pied Flycatcher, 5 Common Redstart, 4 Tree Pipit & 2 Spot Fly personally. Overall we had 8 Redstart all together yesterday!
A decent bit of migration in today with the first few Wheatears of the year found by @rubatroid & this early Tree Pipit on Hampstead Heath today
Birding kinda fell apart after September this year but still managed a decent year with 90 something species locally & 166 overall with White Tailed Eagle, Glossy Ibis and self-found Grasshopper Warbler & Black Redstart among the highlights,
Easily the best bird this autumn! (not my find). Had taken a bit of a break from birding so wasn鈥檛 expecting to see anything like this for a while...
A patch tick for lots of us today at Hampstead Heath, a cracking drake Goldeneye! Thanks to those on the @BirdsMBS walk this morning for getting the news out @CityCorpHeath #londonbirds
70 Fieldfare, 150 Redwing, Brambling, 100+ Chaffinch, 30 Siskin, 2 Redpoll, 4 Meadow Pipit & a single flock of 200+ thrushes (or starling) too far out to ID from Parliament hill this morning
Several hundred starling moving NW over Parliament Hill this morning plus 2 Redpoll S, 12 Siskin N, Brambling N, 70 Chaffinch, 60 Redwing & a meadow pipit. Still a fairly slow autumn....
6-8 Brambling, 150 Redwing, 2 Skylark N, 5 Meadow Pipit, 15 Chaffinch & 70 Goldfinch Parliament hill this morning
Slightly annoyed I couldn鈥檛 go for the Desert Wheatear out in Kent but a few nice bits of autumn migration on Parliament Hill anyways: Skylarks, 3 Pochard (my 3rd record), Redpoll, Siskins, Pipits and the long staying Cetti鈥檚 warbler
Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler and several more Hirundines today鈥檚 highlights
Spotted Flycatcher, heard only Tree Pipit, 40 Meadow Pipit heading N & large numbers of hirundines moving S until the cloud cleared off this morning. Whinchat, Cettis, a different Spot Fly & Stonechat also seen by others
