Your recent sightings at Fairburn Ings
Your recent sightings
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Black-crowned night heron and recent sightings at Fairburn Ings
The birds keep arriving; top of the billing has to be the black-crowned night heron . First seen in flight over the Hicksons Flash area heading east and then located on Village Bay Island on the morning of 2 nd May. Although views were distant, th...
Posted 09 May 2019 by pete m -
Fairburn Ings recent sightings 7th April to 20th April
A busy fortnight on the reserve, a good selection of birds returning or passing through. The range of songs being heard around the reserve is increasing. It truly feels like summer with willow warblers/chiffchaff constantly singing in the backgrou...
Posted 27 Apr 2019 by pete m -
Fairburn Ings recent sightings 24th March to 6th April
The last two weeks have seen an increase in migrant birds visiting the reserve. Willow warblers and blackcaps can now be heard around the reserve, spoonbills have begun to return to the moat area, and a garganey appeared and has been mobile around...
Posted 11 Apr 2019 by pete m -
Fairburn Ings recent sightings 10th March to 23rd March
The sound of the chiffchaff singing has been heard in several areas of the reserve, lifting the melancholy days of spring when the weather does not quite know what to do with itself. An easily recognisable song as it repeats its name over and over...
Posted 29 Mar 2019 by pete m -
Fairburn Ings recent sightings 24th February to 9th March
A single sand martin was seen over main bay on 2 nd March surprising a couple of birders, plus ringed plovers and dunlin moving through signifying the early onset of spring migration and hopefully more species moving through the reserve. Please...
Posted 14 Mar 2019 by pete m -
Recent sightings at Fairburn Ings 10th February - 23rd February 2019
Skylarks are taking to the air in song already and can be heard throughout the reserve; it seems that spring is already upon us during this freakish spell of unseasonably warm weather. Reports of early arrivals of swallows and sand martins have be...
Posted 27 Feb 2019 by pete m
Grid Reference: SE4527 (+2km)
- Bufflehead (0)
- 13 May 2019
- Spotted Sandpiper (0)
- 08 May 2019
- Avocet (0)
- 19 May 2019
- Cuckoo (0)
- 19 May 2019
- Kingfisher (0)
- 19 May 2019
- Cetti's Warbler (0)
- 19 May 2019
- Little Gull (0)
- 13 May 2019
- Arctic Tern (2)
- 13 May 2019
- Black Tern (0)
- 13 May 2019
- Tree Sparrow (2)
- 12 May 2019
