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January |
- Visit estuaries for geese, ducks and waders
- Swans feed on farmland near coasts and certain
wetlands
- Important to feed and water garden birds
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February |
- Visit estuaries for geese, ducks and waders
- Important to feed and water garden birds
- Farmland may provide views of flocks of finches
and other small birds or thrushes.
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March |
- Very earliest summer migrants appear such as
wheatears
- Continue to feed and water birds
- Some resident birds start to sing.
- Rooks are building
nests in the rookery.
- Heron nest
building activity is starting.
- Great crested grebes
display on areas of open water.
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April |
- Migrant birds can be spotted on the coast
especially at sea crossing points.
- Birds start breeding.
- Garden birds start collecting nest material and
even feeding young.
- Some early sea cliff birds breeding such as the
shag.
- Resident birds singing. Joined by some
summer migrant birds such as chiff-chaff and later
willow warbler.
- Swallows appear
and cuckoos start to call.
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May |
- All summer migrants have arrived. Visit
woodlands, heathlands, wetlands and other scrubby countryside for
the high point of the song bird year.
- Main breeding period.
- Garden birds breeding, swifts race over
roof tops.
- Visit sea cliffs to see breeding birds such as
guillemots and kittiwakes.
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June |
- Young birds everywhere.
- Some garden birds still breeding.
- Visit sea cliffs to see breeding birds.
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July |
- Some garden birds still breeding.
- Visit sea cliffs to see breeding birds.
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August |
- First summer migrants depart such as
swifts
- Resident waders such as curlew return to
estuaries for the winter
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September |
- Summer migrants leaving, winter migrants
arriving, passage migrants present
- Migrant birds can be spotted on the coast
especially at sea crossing points.
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October |
- Summer migrants leaving, winter migrants
arriving, passage migrants present
- Migrant birds can be spotted on the coast
especially at sea crossing points.
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November |
- Most winter migrants have arrived and summer
migrants departed
- Visit estuaries for geese, ducks and waders
- Important to feed and water garden birds
- Put up new or clean out old nest boxes (line
with a bed of soft material for roosting birds)
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December |
- Visit estuaries for geese, ducks and waders
- Important to feed and water garden birds
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