BS3 Garden Birds survey

[Eric Booth]

Hello

Thanks to Ben for the prompt about the BS3 Garden Bird Survey in the last GBCP Newsletter. Just a reminder that I collate all the responses and submit them in to the Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre (BRERC) http://www.brerc.org.uk. However, I’ve not yet done these for 2013 and 2014. I think I’ve got an almost complete set for 2013, but very few record sheets from 2014, this is the period that includes spring 2015.

If you can pass on your record sheets to Ben or myself then we can get them recorded for posterity.  

I like to record year round so the 2016 sheet I use is attached, along with the winter month one for 2015/16.

Finally, if you’re interested the summary sheet is attached of the 2,000 plus records we’ve made of which bird in which month.

My points of note for 2015 were first time records for goldcrest and coal tit and greater spotted woodpecker. Regular visits from jay. Fewer sightings of long-tailed tits, goldfinches & starlings.

2013 records I’ve got

• Penny Nettelfield
• June Goulding
• Julia Tutton
• Pete Hurst
• Len Wyatt
• R Haines
• Francis Macfarlane
• Sue Chubb
• Christopher Baggott
• A Pratley
• Mo+Sarah Mulligan
• Mrs Stanley
• Sharon Bennett
• Mrs Stanley
• Sharon Bennett
• Christine Bartlett
• Andy Tilley
• Jill Maddocks
• Jane Clutterbuck
• Robert & Catherine Webber
• BS32AE 1 Truro Rd
• Jane Stevenson
• Jamie Darwen
• Caroline Rigg
• Ben Barker
• Hen Anstey
• Eric Booth

2014 records I’ve got

• Eric Booth
• Frances Macfarlane
• Len Wyatt
• Julia Tutton

Cheers

Eric

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Date: 19 January 2016 at 09:28:26 GMT

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Subject: Fwd: GBCP NEWSLETTER (04:16)

Garden Birds

We are now well into the fourth month of the annual six month BS3 Garden Bird Survey.   So far, there seems to have been a slightly narrower range of species than in previous years, but a considerable drop in individual numbers.    I like to think that this is because the unusually mild winter is not driving birds, as it usually does, from the countryside to a slightly warmer city with good food sources.    I hope there is not a more sinister explanation.   Or perhaps it’s just me.