Autumn 2011
Field Trip to Glencape & Caerlaverock:
Monday 14th November, 2011
Weather: Heavy overcast, but mostly dry
Birds seen by most participants:
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
- Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
- Gadwall Anas strepera
- Teal Anas crecca
- Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensis
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Goosander Mergus merganser (US: Common Merganser)
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Peregrine Falco peregrinus
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus (aka Peewit)
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Woodpigeon Columba palumbus
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Dunnock Prunella modularis
- European Robin Erithacus rubecula
- Common Blackbird Turdus merula
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus
- Great Tit Parus major
- Western Jackdaw Corvus monedula
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs