Did the first round of the BTO winter Thrushes survey around Patch area, Eltham Palace and King Johns Walk. The survey requires at least one visit per month along a pre-designated walk recording all the Thrushes and Starlings seen. Only 1 Blackbird and 1 Mistle Thrush seen today, but that reflects our summer absence of all the thrush species from the patch area. Lets hope that as the winter goes on we get a good influx of thrushes like last year. One great sighting were two separate Green woodpeckers one on King Johns Walk and one in Fairy Hill Park. Also the Canada goose / Greylag goose were back on the Tarn with this years young one after an absence of some weeks
Greylag Goose [sp] (Anser anser)
Canada Goose [sp] (Branta canadensis)
Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
Mallard [sp] (Anas platyrhynchos)
Common Moorhen [sp] (Gallinula chloropus)
Eurasian Coot [sp] (Fulica atra)
Common Pigeon [sp] (Columba livia)
Common Wood Pigeon [sp] (Columba palumbus)
Rose-ringed Parakeet [sp] (Psittacula krameri)
European Green Woodpecker [sp] (Picus viridis)
Eurasian Magpie [sp] (Pica pica)
Western Jackdaw [sp] (Coloeus monedula)
Carrion Crow [sp] (Corvus corone)
Common Starling [sp] (Sturnus vulgaris)
Common Blackbird [sp] (Turdus merula)
Mistle Thrush [sp] (Turdus viscivorus)
European Robin [sp] (Erithacus rubecula)
House Sparrow [sp] (Passer domesticus)
Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba yarrellii)
Common Chaffinch [sp] (Fringilla coelebs)
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