Wildlife of the Rodwell Trail
monthly reports of birds seen from the trail


April 2014


40 species so far this month

Great Crested Grebe
Cormorant
Gadwall
Red-breasted Merganser
Buzzard
Peregrine
Oystercatcher
Common Sandpiper
Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull >
Great Black-backed Gull
Sandwich Tern >
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Skylark
Wren
Dunnock >
Robin
Wheatear
Blackbird
Cetti's Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler
Whitethroat
Blackcap
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Long-tailed Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Magpie
Jackdaw >
Rook
Carrion Crow
Starling
House Sparrow >
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch >
Greenfinch




April 22nd - Loads pf migrants about this morning with no less than seven species of warbler seen or heard including a Cetti's warbler at Newstead Road and my first grasshopper warbler on the trail singing above Old Castle Road. Further along the trail there were five common sandpipers on the rocks below Downclose embankment and twenty plus wheatears at Smallmouth.

April 27th - A courting flock of 7 gadwall were over Newstead Road this morning.

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