Swithland and Bradgate

July 29, 2001

Warm, some wind and sunny. By bus 121 to Quorn. We walked via a small brooklet to Swithland water and continued via Woodhouses and Bradgate to Newtown Linford. A pleasant walk, although safe crossing of golf courses requires careful attention for to all those clumsy golfers... Observations not near Swithland are marked as such.

  1. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
  2. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
  3. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
  4. Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
  5. Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
  6. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
    7. Bradgate
  7. House Martin Delichon urbica
    8. Bradgate
  8. Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
    9. Bradgate
  9. Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis
    10. Bradgate
  10. Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
    11. Bradgate
  11. Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
  12. European Robin Erithacus rubecula
  13. Goldcrest Regulus regulus
  14. Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
  15. Coal Tit Parus ater
  16. Blue Tit Parus caeruleus
  17. Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
  18. Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula
    19. >20 field west of S
  19. Rook Corvus frugilegus
    20. > 200 field west of S
  20. Carrion / Hooded Crow Corvus corone
    21. few, field west of S
  21. Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

Nomenclature follows Voous’s List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species (BOU 1977, revised edition). English names are as in BOU Checklist of Birds of Britain and Ireland (6th Edition, 1992)