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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.

May 2009

Once again there has been a low number of reports so the picture is not as comprehensive as we would like. Sightings have been much more sporadic, probably due to many birds sitting on nests. Sightings of Great Tit, Robin and Greenfinch are down slightly on last month. Goldfinch and House Sparrow are up. Song Thrush is down very slightly. Woodpeckers are well up. Siskin remains very prolific. The Collared Doves seem a bit more widespread than before. Interestingly, Lesser Redpoll is still reported in a few gardens (the appearance of them in gardens seems to be widespread this year, not just a local feature). The most significant change is in the distribution of House Sparrows - every reporting garden has sighted them, largely due to the first brood spreading away from the nest for food. It is good to see that they are thriving so well. Chaffinch, House Sparrow, Greenfinch and Siskin are the only birds seen in all of the gardens that reported. Swallows and House Martins were reported in April and reports are up this month - probably all gardens had them overhead but not reported as they weren't 'IN' the garden. There are no reports of any other other summer visitors, we would have expected some warblers to have been sighted.

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

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.