Birds

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Red Kite - Milvus milvus


Pied Wagtail - Motacilla alba


Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

Grey Wagtails can be seen searchinig for insects at the lake and cascading ponds. They have usually left the reserve by autumn.


Spotted Flycatcher - Muscicapa striata


Curlew - Numenius arquata


Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus


Wheatear - Oenanthe oenanthe


Great Tit - Parus major

These birds are busy across the reserve. The male has the larger black stripe down its breast, the female a much narrower one. Many of the nest boxes around the reserve are used by the Great Tits.


Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Passer montanus


Grey Partridge - Perdix perdix


Coal Tit - Periparus ater


Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo


Common Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus


Common Redstart - Phoenicurus phoenicurus

This species was recorded as breeding for the first time in June 2011. The young were ringed in the nest.


Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita


Yellow-browed Warbler - Phylloscopus inornatus


Willow Warbler - Phylloscopus trochilus


Magpie - Pica pica


Green Woodpecker - Picus viridis


Willow Tit - Poecile montanus


Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris


Dunnock - Prunella modularis


Bullfinch - Pyrrhula pyrrhula

Over 3000 Bullfinches have been ringed at Foxglove. Quite often these birds can be seen feeding from the hopper in the back garden, or flitting between the trees along the access road.


Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus


Firecrest - Regulus ignicaillus


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