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.

March 2009

Yet another drop in the number of reports received - a very disappointing nine. This is not really sufficient to give us a decent picture.

March would be expected to show a significant change in what we see in our gardens, with winter visitors leaving us and our residents dispersing to nest. Summer migrants are not yet here, of course. The small number of reports can allow us only a 'best guess' but they do indeed seem to show this trend.

Blue Tits remain about the same but there does seem to be a small drop in Great Tit and Coal Tit. Chaffinch and Robin are steady. Dunnock and House Sparrow are fairly steady, perhaps up a little bit. Blackbirds are similar to before but the Song Thrush has made a strong appearance and Greenfinch, Goldfinch and Wrens seem to be up. Siskins are also well up - they should peak next month. Long-tailed Tits have all but vanished (where still seen would tend to indicate a nest in the vicinity). There seems little real change in other birds but the low number of reports makes this unreliable.

 

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.

Birds seen daily - very common

 

Birds seen on three-quarters of days or more - common

 

Birds seen on between half and three-quarters of days - fairly common

 

Birds seen only on between one quarter and half of days - less common

 

Birds only seen on less than one quarter of days - uncommon or occasional

 

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