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.

June 2009

Only seven reports this month - but generally covering a much wider area and includes a new contribution from Johnstonebridge.

There has been a notable shift in the pattern from last month. The overall picture shows a big drop in Coal Tits,
some drop in Dunnock, a small drop in Greenfinch & Goldfinch, a big drop in Siskins, no Long-tailed Tits seen this time, Carrion Crow and Collared Doves are up and there have been no Redpoll sighted. This does not give the full picture, however. Blue Tits, Great Tits, Chaffinches, Goldfinches, Woodpeckers & Crows are now seen on most days in the gardens where they were seen. This is up on previous records. On the other hand, the number of birds sighted on between one quarter and one half of days is well down. Interestingly, though, the number seen on less than a quarter of days is well up. Why there should be a drop in the 25-50% bracket while the others are increased is difficult to establish. We may surmise that the ones seen in the 50+% category may well include young birds moving out into the open while some adult birds are either nesting later or gone back to raising a second brood so are not seen as regularly.

 

The same information in a different form -

Now the maps (new ones covering a wider area). We have 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 (none)

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, choose a chart from the list and then clicking on the chart to open it in a new window. Internet Explorer users may have to magnify it to full size to see it clearly.

Birds seen daily - the commonest birds (default)
Birds seen on three-quarters of days or more - very common
Birds seen on between half and three-quarters of days - fairly common
Birds seen on between one quarter and half of days - less common
Birds seen on one quarter of days or less - least common/occasional

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