Hampshire bird news
Tuesday 26th May 2015
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| Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26/05/15 | Tufted Duck | Overton Lagoons | 2 | D Murdoch |
| 1 pr. Very overgrown, so difficult to see much. SU515502. Strictly private. No public access. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Little Grebe | Overton Lagoons | 1 | D Murdoch |
| difficult to see into the pools so could have been more. SU515502. Strictly private. No public access. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Gadwall | Overton Lagoons | 4 | D Murdoch |
| 2 prs. SU515502. Strictly private. No public access. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Barn Owl | Old Alresford | 1 | H R Cornford |
| 21:00 | Hunting round Coombe Farm. SU5835. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Red Kite | Wickham | 1 | P M Potts |
| over town - Rhiannon Eustace. SU571115. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Hobby | Fields Heath, Blackfield | 1 | J G Ross |
| 07:00 | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Tawny Owl | Great Covert Wood | 1 | A Murdock |
| m. Territorial calling. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Woodcock | Great Covert Wood | 2 | A Murdock |
| m. 2 in flight battling (possibly a third but difficult to tell whether same birds doing circuits). | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Nightjar | Great Covert Wood | 2 | A Murdock |
| 21:40 | m. 1 Churring and then 2 in flight - clonking views from the Valley Park end deer fence. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Long-tailed Tit | Fishlake Meadows | 26 | D Thelwell |
| First big post-breeding flock. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Spoonbill | Farlington Marshes | 2 | R Skinner |
| Asleep on the ditch going down towards the scrape. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | GREATER YELLOWLEGS | Titchfield Haven | 1 | A Berryman |
| From Suffern Hide again mid-afternoon. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Osprey | Romsey | 1 | G Reeves |
| 12:45 | Gliding away and down towards Fishlake Meadows. Definitely not Buzzard or Red Kite. SU353213. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Sandwich Tern | Hook Links, Hook-with-Warsash | 1 | S Brunton |
| 13:35 | Feeding just offshore. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Tufted Duck | Hook Links, Hook-with-Warsash | 1 | S Brunton |
| 12:30 | drk. Links Scrape. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Red Kite | Lee (Nursling) | 1 | I R Watts |
| 12:30 | Over Drove road. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Whinchat | Solent Breezes | 1 | W Simcox |
| On fence line in Pylon field. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Red Kite | Turf Hill Inclosure, NF | 1 | R Tulloch |
| 11:20 | Not first sighting here but still fairly rare in this locality. Also regular cuckoo call in distance. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Pochard | Longparish Trout Farm | 1 | C Bowman |
| male on lake. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Great Black-backed Gull | Longparish Trout Farm | 2 | C Bowman |
| 26/05/15 | Spotted Flycatcher | Longparish | 1 | C Bowman |
| nuns walk. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Cuckoo | Longparish | 2 | C Bowman |
| 2 males chasing each other at the cleeves. | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Eider | Solent Breezes | 1 | R H Marchant |
| 09:10 | fem. Offshore by her favoured (green triangle) post. SU5003. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Cuckoo | Hook Links, Hook-with-Warsash | 1 | R H Marchant |
| 09:00 | By Cowes Lane reedbed, and presumably same bird at Hook Lake 10:00. SU4904. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Little Owl | Hook (Warsash) | 1 | R H Marchant |
| 08:45 | Tree line SW from Beam Cottage. SU5004. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Swift | Southampton, General Hospital | 5 | J Brandsma |
| 08:45 | Back at SGH and my first for the year. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Great Crested Grebe | Riverside Park, Southampton | 1 | I R Watts |
| 08:00 | ||||
| 26/05/15 | Cuckoo | Blashford Lakes - Centre | 1 | E Bennett |
| 10:10 | Flew south over the education centre. | |||
| 26/05/15 | Garden Warbler | Creech Wood, Denmead | 1 | O Parker |
| 09:30 | male. Singing in Silver Birch tree in the car park. | |||
