Scarce Breeding Birds in Wiltshire

Please note that for the duration of the breeding season, the reporting of the scarcer birds that occur in the county as breeding species will cease. As there is still sadly a threat from egg collectors, this is a measure to help protect our birds.

Please continue to report all your sightings as normal as records covering scarce breeders will be forwarded to the county recorder.

23rd April 2011

10 Nightingale, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 4 Garden Warbler, 7 Lesser Whitethroat, Tree Pipit, 60 Whitethroat – SPTA centre – Phil & Graham Deacon, Olly Fox

Cuckoo – Sharcott – Rowena & Bill Quantrill

Stonechat – Oxenwood – Andrew Dawes

Raven – Ham Hill – Andrew Dawes

2 Little Owl – Chute forest – John Crouch

WHIMBREL, GARGANEY, 4 BLACK TERN, 3 Common Tern, Cuckoo, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2 Dunlin  - CWP74 (no sigh of reported Garganey) - Ken Cypher, Len Ingram, Nigel Pleass

22nd April 2011

2 Grasshopper Warbler, Redstart, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 16 Whitethroat – Chippenham – Mark Coller

Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Snipe, 30 Whitethroat, Cuckoo - Nightingale Wood, South Marston – Phil & Graham Deacon, Olly Fox

17 BLACK TERN, 2 OYSTERCATCHER, Nightingale, Little Egret, Common Tern, Wheatear, Garden Warbler - CWP74 – Neil Cowley, Bob Philpott

 2 Cuckoo, Barn Owl – Wootton Bassett – Simon Wicks

2 Raven – Little Somerford – David Bush

2 Hobby, 2 Curlew, 5 Whinchat – SPTA east – Brian Rickwood

Hobby – Hanging Langford – John Fishwick

‘Red Tape Challenge’ – an email from the RSPB

If you haven’t received this email from the RSPB, you might like to have a look and consider what to do.

http://clicks.dbgi.co.uk/DC/ViewEmailInBrowser.aspx?646C76=313036313735&736272=$$Era6BcxV6uUUEEE&66=30

21st April 2011

Little Egret – Swindon STW – Simon Wicks

Wheatear, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat – Blakehill – Jon Mecrer

Nightingale - Westbury – Richard Lamb

Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover – CWP301 – Graham Lawler

12 RED-CRESTED POCHARD, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper – CWP97 - Graham Lawler

Nightingale, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2 Little Egret, 2 Hobby – CWP74 – Graham Lawler

Cetti’s Warbler, 2 lesser Whitethroat, 2 Garden Warbler, 2 Shelduck – CWP68 – Graham Lawler

20th April 2011

Hobby - Cricklade – Robin Griffiths

Tree Pipit, 3 Whitethroat, 6 Sedge Warbler – Chippenham – Mark Coller

5 Yellow Wagtail, 12 Corn Bunting – Marden - Don Smith

2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Wheatear, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Cuckoo – Blakehill – Robin Griffiths

Swift – Grittleton – Stewart Dobson

2 DIPPER - By Brook, Box - Barry Nicholson

Whinchat – Higher Pertwood – John Osborne

Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Cuckoo – Nightingale Wood, South Marston – Malcolm Royal

Hobby – CWP74 – Jon Mercer

SHORT-EARED OWL, Grasshopper Warbler – SPTA east – J Howell

Nightingale - Slag Lane, Westbury – Richard Lamb

9 Grasshopper Warbler, 6 Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Barn Owl – Knighton – Nigel Pleass

19th April 2011

2 RED -CRESTED POCHARD, Little Ringed Plover - CWP301 – Robin Nelson

Nightingale – Westbury – Richard Lamb

2 Cuckoo, 7 Reed Warbler, 12 Sedge Warbler 8 Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 3 Cetti’s Warbler – Salisbury Meadows – Keith Simpson

Swift (1st spring record), 2 Cuckoo – Salisbury – Keith Simpson

2 Lesser Whitethroat – Garsden – Robin Griffiths

2 Little Ringed Plover, Nightingale – CWP74 – Robin Griffiths

3 Lapwing – Norton – Stewart Dobson

3 WOOD WARBLER, 4 FIRECREST, 2 Redstart, 6 Siskin, Tree Pipit – Franchise Wood – Nigel Pleass 

SHORT-EARED OWL - Standlynch Down – Andrew Carter

18th April 2011

4 BLACK TERN, WHIMBREL, Common Tern, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 little Egret - CWP74 – Kim Milsom, Julian Green

Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler – Ravensroost – Robin Griffiths

Cetti’s Warbler – Wilton Water – Ed Smith

17th April 2011

Common Sandpiper – Liden Lagoon, Swindon – Steve Davies

2 Wheatear, 5 Whitethroat – Charlbury Hill – Steve Davies

OYSTERCATCHER, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Little Egret, 2 Snipe, Green Sandpiper - Swindon STW – Matt Prior

2 RUDDY SHELDUCK, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Shelduck, Kingfisher, Lapwing – Coate Water – Malcolm Royal

2 Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, 12 Whitethroat, 25 Blackcap, 20 Willow Warbler, 20 Chiffchaff – Nightingale Wood, South Marston – Phil & Graham Deacon, Olly Fox  

Reed Warbler, 6 Sedge Warbler, Kingfisher – Kellaways – Stewart Dobson

Raven – Clyffe Pypard – Stewart Dobson

Wheatear – Malmesbury Common – David Wall

MERLIN, 4 Whitethroat, 5 Wheatear – Etchilhampton Hill – Anthony Mitchell

47 Wheatear, 3 Curlew, Dunlin, 5 Tree Pipit, 4 Stonechat, 11 Whitethroat, Lesset Whitethroat, 2 Grasshopper Warbler – SPAT east – Nigel Pleass

16th April 2011

6 Nightingale, 7 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 60 Whitethroat, 70 Blackcap, 40 Willow Warbler, 30 Chiffchaff, 15 Wheatear  -SPTA centre – Phil & Graham Deacon, Olly Fox

HEN HARRIER - Bishops Cannings - Ian Hunt

Redstart, 3 Wheatear – Sopworth - Roy Beckett

Wheatear – Upper North Wraxall – Tim Osborne

4 Cuckoo, 4 Whitethroat, Snipe – Nightingale Wood, South Marston – Graham Deacon

2 Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti’s Warbler, Cuckoo – Knighton – Malcolm Royal

Cetti’s Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Cuckoo, Snipe – Bincknoll – Malcolm Royal

4 Grasshopper Warbler, 5 Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler – Moulden Hill – Jon Mercer

2 Grasshopper Warbler – Swindon STW – Matt Prior

5 Yellow Wagtail, 15 Corn Bunting – Mardon - Don Smith

Shelduck – CWP59 – Nigel Pleass

Green Sandpiper – CWP301 – Nigel Pleass

Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Dunlin, 2 Goldeneye, 33 Teal, 5 Wigeon, 6 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Wheatear, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti’s Warbler – CWP68/74 – Nigel Pleass

Nightingale - CWP95 – Nigel Pleass

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