DUNGEON HILL - BIRDS

Most birds common year round & breed at the patch except were shown.

  1. GOLDCREST (Regulus regulus)
  2. FIRECREST (Regulus ignicapillus) - 1st record 1st Jan 2017
  3. WREN (Troglodytes troglodytes)
  4. LONG-TAILED TIT (Aegithalos caudatus)
  5. COAL TIT (Parus ater)
  6. WILLOW TIT (Parus montanus) * - no records for 20 years
  7. BLUE TIT (Parus caeruleus)
  8. GREAT TIT (Parus major)
  9. TREECREEPER (Certhia familiaris)
  10. NUTHATCH (Sitta europaea)
  11. WILLOW WARBLER (Phylloscopus trochilus) - 1st breeding record in 2016
  12. CHIFFCHAFF (Phylloscopus collybita) - fairly common summer visitor, breeds
  13. LESSER WHITETHROAT (Sylvia curruca) - occ Summer visitor, breeds 
  14. WHITETHROAT (Sylvia communis) - common summer visitor, breeds
  15. BLACKCAP (Sylvia atricapilla) - fairly common summer visitor, breeds
  16. GRASSHOPPER WARBLER (Locustella naevia) * - 1st record 3rd May 2019
  17. GARDEN WARBLER (Sylvia borin) * - now rare passage migrant
  18. REED WARBLER (Acrocephalus scripaceus) - 1st record 09/06/18, then one on 06/05/19
  19. PIED FLYCATCHER (Ficedula hypoleuca) * - 1 record in Scratch Wood
  20. SPOTTED FLYCATCHER (Muscipapa striata) - now scarce passage migrant
  21. HOUSE MARTIN (Delichon urbica) - now occasional passage migrant
  22. SWALLOW (Hirundo rustica) - common summer visitor, breeds
  23. STONECHAT (Saxicola torquata) - occasional passage migrant
  24. WHINCHAT (Saxicola rubetra) - scarce passage migrant
  25. ROBIN (Erithacus rubecula)
  26. COMMON REDSTART (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) - occasional passage migrant
  27. BLACK REDSTART (Phoenicurus ochruros) * scarce passage migrant
  28. WHEATEAR  (Oenanthe oenanthe) regular passage migrant
  29. HOUSE SPARROW (Passer domesticus)
  30. DUNNOCK (Prunella modularis)
  31. SISKIN (Carduelis spinus) * - 1st record 13th October 2018
  32. GREENFINCH (Carduelis chloris)
  33. GOLDFINCH (Carduelis carduelis)
  34. LESSER REDPOLL (Carduelis cabaret) - occasional winter visitor 
  35. LINNET (Carduelis cannabina) - mainly summer visitor, breeds
  36. CHAFFINCH (Fringilla coelebs)
  37. BRAMBLING (Fringilla montifringilla) * very occasional winter visitor
  38. BULLFINCH (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
  39. HAWFINCH (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
  40. REED BUNTING (Emberiza schoeniclus) - occasional winter visitor
  41. YELLOWHAMMER (Emberiza citrinella) - now rare visitor
  42. MEADOW PIPIT (Anthus pratensis) - mainly winter visitor
  43. TREE PIPIT (Anthus trivialis) - very occasional passage migrant
  44. YELLOW WAGTAIL (Motacilla flava) * - 1st record 6th May 2019
  45. GREY WAGTAIL (Motacilla cinerea) - one record in 2015
  46. PIED WAGTAIL (Motacilla alba) - reasonably common visitor
  47. SKYLARK (Alauda arvensis) - now uncommon visitor, used to breed
  48. RED-BACKED SHRIKE (Lanius collurio) - one record in June 2010
  49. STARLING (Sturnus vulgaris)
  50. REDWING (Turdus iliacus)- fairly common winter visitor
  51. SONG THRUSH (Turdus philomelos)
  52. RING OUZEL (Turdus torquatus) - occasional passage migrant
  53. BLACKBIRD (Turdus merula)
  54. FIELDFARE (Turdus pilaris) - winter visitor
  55. MISTLE THRUSH (Turdus viscivorus)
  56. JAY (Garrulus glandarius)
  57. MAGPIE (Pica pica)
  58. JACKDAW (Corvus monedula)
  59. ROOK (Corvus frugilegus)
  60. CROW (Corvus corone)   
  61. RAVEN (Corvus corax) * - 1st record 14th Feb 2020
  62. SWIFT (Apus apus) - summer visitor
  63. LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER (Dendrocopos minor) * - no recent records
  64. WRYNECK (Jynx torquilla) * - 1st record 15th September 2019
  65. GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER (Dendrocopos major)
  66. GREEN WOODPECKER (Picus viridis)
  67. CUCKOO (Cuculus canorus) - once common now occasional passage migrant
  68. COLLARED DOVE (Streptopelia decaocto) 
  69. STOCK DOVE (Columba oenas)
  70. FERAL PIGEON / WHITE DOVE 
  71. WOODPIGEON (Columba palumbus)
  72. GREY PARTRIDGE (Perdix perdix) * - no records since the 1980's 
  73. PHEASANT (Phasianus colchicus)
  74. LAPWING (Vanellus vanellus) - 1st record 28th Feb 2018, then Autumn 2019
  75. WOODCOCK (Scolopax rusticola) * - 1st record 10 Dec 2017, rarely seen winter visitor  
  76. GREY HERON (Ardea cinerea) - reasonably common fly over
  77. MALLARD DUCK (Anas platyrhynchos) - uncommon fly over
  78. TUFTED DUCK (Aythya fuligula) - (probable - 5th April 2017 @ 20:10)
  79. GREYLAG GOOSE (Anser anser) - 1st record 6th Feb 2017
  80. CANADA GOOSE (Branta canadensis) - uncommon fly over
  81. BLACK-HEADED GULL (Larus ridibundus) - common, mainly winter visitor
  82. COMMON GULL (Larus canus) - fairly common winter visitor
  83. HERRING GULL (Larus argentatus) - year round fly over
  84. LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (Larus fuscus) - occasional fly over
  85. GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL (Larus marinus) - very occasional fly over 
  86. CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax carbo) - very occasional fly over
  87. LITTLE OWL (Athene noctua) 
  88. BARN OWL (Tyto alba) *
  89. SHORT-EARED OWL (Asio flammeus) * - one record in 2015  
  90. TAWNY OWL (Strix aluco) 
  91. KESTREL (Falco tinnunculus)
  92. HOBBY Falco subbuteo) - occasional passage migrant
  93. PEREGRINE (Falco peregrinus) uncommon fly over
  94. SPARROWHAWK (Accipiter nisus)
  95. BUZZARD (Buteo buteo)
  96. RED KITE (Milvus milvus) -  occasional fly over
  97. OSPREY (Pandion haliaetus) * - very occasional passage migrant
  98. RING-NECKED PARAKEET (Psittacula krameri)