Wakering Common, Sunday 11th May 2003

A good selection of our summer species for our last field walk of the season.

Species Seen????

  1. Cormorant
  2. Little Egret
  3. Grey Heron
  4. Common Shelduck
  5. Gadwall
  6. Common Teal
  7. Mallard
  8. Kestrel
  9. Red-legged Partridge
  10. Common Pheasant
  11. Oystercatcher
  12. Ringed Plover
  13. Lapwing
  14. Whimbrel
  15. Curlew
  16. Common Sandpiper
  17. Herring Gull
  18. Black-headed Gull
  19. Common Tern
  20. Stock Dove
  21. Wood Pigeon
  22. Turtle Dove
  23. Collared Dove
  24. Cuckoo
  25. Short-eared Owl (on Havengore)
  26. Swift
  27. Great Spotted Woodpecker
  28. Skylark
  29. Swallow
  30. Meadow Pipit
  31. Pied Wagtail
  32. Yellow Wagtail
  33. Grey Wagtail
  34. Robin
  35. Blackbird
  36. Mistle Thrush
  37. Sedge Warbler
  38. Reed Warbler
  39. Blackcap
  40. Common Whitethroat
  41. Lesser Whitethroat (heard)
  42. Long-tailed Tit
  43. Great Tit
  44. Blue Tit
  45. Magpie
  46. Carrion Crow
  47. Starling
  48. House Sparrow
  49. Chaffinch
  50. Greenfinch
  51. Reed Bunting
  52. Corn Bunting


The pond by John Threadgold's


On the common path


View from sea wall by Oxenham Farm