Charts are difficult to read as they have had to be reduced in size to fit on screen. You can, however, click on any chart (not the maps) and the chart will reload in a new page at full size and be much clearer.

April 2009

We had hoped for a good response this month as it was expected that there should be some considerable differences from previous months with migrants moving and residents going about serious nesting. Alas, only 8 gardens have reported, two of these being new locations from last month! This is not enough to give a good picture, especially as two come from Old Carlisle Road and two from the Beattock area - this rather localises the sightings and doesn't give a good representation of general distribution.

However, going with what information we received, there is little change in Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Chaffinch or Robin from the March results. Dunnock & House Sparrow also remain about the same. Blackbird and Nuthatch seem to be down slightly, probably Blackbird sightings will increase again once they start feeding young. Greenfinch & Goldfinch are much as before but some fairly large numbers have been seen in some gardens. Wren has dropped considerably. Song Thrush seems to be down somewhat, presumably during nesting, but should hopefully increase again once feeding young. No reports of Treecreeper this month. Siskin has increased considerably and, for the first time, Lesser Redpolls have been seen in quite a few gardens, usually along with the Siskins. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Wood Pigeon, Starling & Crow are similar to before. Pied Wagtail numbers have risen and Grey Wagtail has been reported for the first time. Long-tailed Tit has dropped quite a bit. Collared Dove continues to be seen in a few places but seems to be very localised. There are some new ones apart from the Lesser Redpoll - a Dipper seen at Heatheryhaugh, a Linnet at Broomlands and the first reports of Swallow and House Martin.

Overall Sightings

The same information in a different form -

Now the maps. We have again included only selected species. If anyone out there would like to see more species listed, please get in touch and we will see what we can do.

You can change this map view to show the locations where some selected birds were seen and not seen. The symbols used are:

reporting point

sighting location for selected bird.

The choice of display is from the following options -

All locations

Nuthatch

Collared Dove

House Sparrow

Siskin

Long-tailed Tit

To give an indication of how common all these birds are, here are some more charts - they are not easy to make out as we have to reduce their size considerably to fit the web page! However, clicking a chart will make the chart reload in a new window at full size.

 

 

 

 

 

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