The main news of the day was of two singing male Garden Warblers on the patch ( IPW ): one between Green Belt Field and Poultry Field and o...

The first Hobby of the year made a couple of swift appearances over the Harholt Plantation, where a Red Kite and a Lesser Black-backed Gul...

Slangs was the place to be, where fly-overs of Raven and Yellow Wagtail were noted while listening to a male Lesser Whitethroat belting o...

Sightings in the CF sector included five Wheatears in Broadfield, a (the?) Meadow Pipit again, two Canada Geese and two Lesser Black-back...

Two Sand Martins flew through to the north-east late morning, a nice addition to the year list. Also noteworthy were two Greylags overhead...

The Reads Bottom area came good mid-afternoon with a Black Redstart flitting between the fence posts ( AD/RR ). A typical spring date for o...

Migrants at the farm included three Wheatears in Broadfield, a Willow Warbler by Reads Rest Cottages, a Meadow Pipit which flew from Owl ...

Broadfield attracted four Wheatears and a Willow Warbler was singing in Lunch Wood. Also logged at the farm were two Whitethroats , 10 Swa...

The only 'newsworthy' bird sightings were a Mistle Thrush in Broadfield, three Pied Wagtails at Legal & General and a BW secto...

Our latest spring Stonechat on record, a male, toured around Horse Pasture. Both of the Red-legged Partridges remained in Broadfield. Five...

A Wheatear , five Swallows and two Mistle Thrushes were at the farm and two Lesser Black-backed Gulls flew over BW. An Orange-tip was ...

A bit of coverage at the farm late in the day revealed the first Whitethroat of the spring bursting into song briefly on the south side of ...

Notable sightings at the farm included an immature Cormorant circling high, three Swallows , a Tawny Owl , a Little Owl and two Mistle Thr...

Bird of the day was a Cuckoo heard singing near Park Farm between 10:30 and 10:45. Birds seen flying over the Harholt Plantation included a...

There was a scattering of 20 Pheasants in Game Field and Green Belt Field while five Swallows flew northwest. 12 Yellowhammers were in G...

Three Pied Wagtails were on the grass at Legal & General and a Willow Warbler was singing near Piddly Pond. A Speckled Wood was see...

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Our earliest-ever Garden Warbler was singing at the Harholt Plantation and two Mistle Thrushes were seen at the farm. A good variety of ...

A good day produced three  Wheatears , two  Lapwings , a Red Kite and seven Willow Warblers at the farm. A Little Owl was showing on the e...

A Peregrine high southeast over Hither Field and the two Red-legged Partridges still in Broadfield represent the day's headlines. Eigh...