Today I started what will become a monthly bird species count at Hilfield. I decided that I would walk for two hours around Hilfield, counting all bird species I saw and the numbers I saw of them. I am doing this to get an idea of what species and how many of them are present each month of the year.
Although I didn't see anything especially unusual, there were still several birds of minor interest around.
The skies seemed to be dominated by corvids, with 100s of jackdaws, rooks and carrion crows; a remarkable tally of 10 jay 3 magpies. Woodpigeons were also of particular abundance. Besides those, other species with high tallies were herring gull, starling and pheasant.
More interesting birds in smaller numbers were: one buzzard, a goldcrest and two marsh tits.
Full numbers of the bird count are on the Hilfield bird count page.
Total: 26 species seen
I also saw a hummingbird hawk-moth, an increasing visitor to Hilfield.
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