Atlas listing (2 Viewers)

[joannec]

A glorious spring day down here in Sussex today and decided to to my tetrad, TQ41Y. Fourty one common species including nightingale, blackcap and willow warbler. A jay, a robin and a blackbird with food so recording confirmed breeding for those three, also rook, and recording probable breeding codes for most others. First whitethroats and house martins for the year for me today too.

I remembered to take my camera along today so I'm posting a few habitat pictures. The second picture shows the habitat where the nightingale was singing from within.

Joanne

 

[Dawn Balmer]

It is great weather for Atlasing. I've done one TTV so far in Thetford forest where Woodlarks are busy nesting and there are also a few Tree Pipits back on territory. Seem to be a good number of Willow Warblers around.

Been doing quite a bit of Roving, this is a good time to look for breeding evidence of early nesters. Mistle Thrushes are feeding young at the moment so that's an easy way to confirm breeding.

Dawn
Thetford

 

[Stephen Dunstan]

A glorious spring day down here in Sussex today and decided to to my tetrad, TQ41Y. Fourty one common species including nightingale, blackcap and willow warbler. A jay, a robin and a blackbird with food so recording confirmed breeding for those three, also rook, and recording probable breeding codes for most others. First whitethroats and house martins for the year for me today too.

I remembered to take my camera along today so I'm posting a few habitat pictures. The second picture shows the habitat where the nightingale was singing from within.

Joanne

Are Nightingale common in Sussex? I rather naively thought they weren't common anywhere?

Stephen.

 

[joannec]

Are Nightingale common in Sussex? I rather naively thought they weren't common anywhere?

Stephen.

Nightingale is listed as a 'fairly common summer visitor' in Sussex. I have no trouble finding several every year, well, hearing them anyway. They tend to be rather secretive in everything except song. Indeed I hear them from my house so I guess I'm pretty lucky in that respect, even seen them in my garden on a few occasions.

Joanne

 

[Surreybirder]

It is great weather for Atlasing. I've done one TTV so far in Thetford forest where Woodlarks are busy nesting and there are also a few Tree Pipits back on territory. Seem to be a good number of Willow Warblers around.

Been doing quite a bit of Roving, this is a good time to look for breeding evidence of early nesters. Mistle Thrushes are feeding young at the moment so that's an easy way to confirm breeding.

Dawn
Thetford

That's rubbing it in for those of us who work in central London! But I did hear a singing greenfinch at lunchtime so that was pleasing.
Ken

 

[Alan227]

A glorious spring day down here in Sussex today and decided to to my tetrad, TQ41Y. Fourty one common species including nightingale, blackcap and willow warbler.

Couldn't match that Joanne! Just 30 this morning in TQ52P. Starling, House Sparrow and Greenfinch missing, so you can see why :>)

Highlight...Lesser Whitethroat (first ever!).
Lowlight...No raptors. Nil Common w/throat also :>( Big Guard Dog precluded intensive searching of some nice scrubby wasteland. :eek!:

Al

 

[teamsaint]

Is this any way of downloading a list of birds you have seen in the Atlas from the website?

 

[Surreybirder]

There is on birdtrack but I'm not sure about the Atlas website.
Ken

 

[joannec]

Is this any way of downloading a list of birds you have seen in the Atlas from the website?

Tom: you can go to 'view/edit my records' and then see lists for each date you recorded a TTV or RRs.....not a single list as such but a record of all the birds you've reported. I'm not sure that helps you though.

 

[teamsaint]

Thanks Joanne and Ken. Yep I was looking for a list from all my TTVs not each one so I'll either have to work it out myself or hope someone at the BTO adds a facility to list all birds seen in the Atlas.

 

[davercox]

If all your tetrads are in the same 10km square then you can see all your species in "My Square Summaries"; but there's no download facility I'm aware of, apart from your browser's 'save page as' or whatever.

 

[Stephen Dunstan]

Did a tetrad at Fleetwood today where 49 species included singing Grasshopper Warbler and Lesser Whitethroat, and a cracking male Whinchat though this was a migrant. Most enjoyable.

Stephen.

 

[s. james]

Great morning this morning ATLASing three squares in south-east Co. Tyrone. Lovely countryside, lots of wee patches of moss/scrub/woodland and great hedges. All along lanes though and I was in wellies so have got blisters- don't really mind. (Sunday dinner ready when I got home too!)

1 raven, 2 buzzard, 1 sparrowhawk, c50 willow warblers in all, 6 chiffchaffs, pair of lapwing, pair of linnet, reed bunting.

 

[Surreybirder]

Thanks Joanne and Ken. Yep I was looking for a list from all my TTVs not each one so I'll either have to work it out myself or hope someone at the BTO adds a facility to list all birds seen in the Atlas.

I did what I should have done before and had a look at the actual web site.
If you look at 'view/edit my records' you can open a list of all your species for either the winter or summer periods "Overall species lists (inc. races and escapes)". I know that's not quite what you asked for but it's a good start!
(My lists are 95 winter, 122 breeding and 51 ex season.)
Ken

 

[teamsaint]

Thanks Ken, good start.

Got a couple more to do in the next few weeks so hope to take my Atlas list higher

 

[Surreybirder]

I did my second 'early' TTV today - glorious day for it. It is a rural tetrad with a lake and several woods. I had 42 species in the two hours. There were no major surprises but I was glad finally to catch up with cuckoo. Nice views of a male mandarin on the lake. There was a yellowhammer singing on the very corner of the square. I counted it though it may have been a few yards 'off-side'. No raptors! The only 'rarity' was helmeted guineafowl, which was 'singing'. There seemed to be masses of wrens but not a single green woodpecker.
Ken

 

[Stephen Dunstan]

I did a couple of tetrads today, and also had Helemted Guineafowl as it happened. Otherwise notable species were Tree Sparrow on both and Corn Bunting on the first. Raptors on one were Buzzard and Kestrel, and Little Owl on the other if that counts. I think this is the first Little Owl I have seen on a TTV.

Stephen.

 

[Capercaillie71]

A lovely day here for atlasing too, so I got round two adjacent tetrads this morning, not too far from my house. Quite a mix of habitats ranging from farmland and small woods through extensive conifer plantations to native pinewood and small areas of open moorland.

Highlights included a Blackcap singing almost as soon as I walked into the first tetrad, followed shortly after by four Stock Doves (neither species is particularly common here). A little later a wing-tagged Red Kite from the Aberdeen release scheme appeared overhead. It has been in the area for a while but this was the furthest west I have seen it yet.

A total of 16 Tree Pipits and 4 Redstarts across the two tetrads were good totals, but a flock of 20 Crossbills unfortunately appeared in a gap between TTVs (although I saw 4 Crossbills during TTVs as well). A probable Capercaillie flying out of a tree was quite frustrating too as I couldn't see it to confirm the ID, but it sounded too loud to be a woodpigeon!

Finally, to round the morning off, a brood of six mallard ducklings on a small pond were my first of the year.

Commonest species were Chaffinch (73 in four hours) and Willow Warbler (55 in four hours)

 

[Surreybirder]

I've had two of my roving records from Northumbria queried... first time I've seen how the system works despite querying other people's records! I was surprised that the queries related to nos as it says that putting in the no. is optional (in fact, I'm not even sure that it was an option initially).
Today I did some 'roving' through TQ34X, which is mostly rather scrubby fields. It looked good for grasshopper warbler which I've never seen/heard in Surrey but no luck on that front. However, I did hear two singing nightingales which was pleasing. I was lucky as it was quite late in the a.m. I might try one evening soon as I think that groppers tend to sing more at dusk, though it's a very long shot.
My impression is that goldcrests have been badly hit by the cold winter... I've not heard one singing all weekend, and I've covered quite a lot of ground - at least 5 hours of walking.
Ken

 

[joannec]

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My impression is that goldcrests have been badly hit by the cold winter... I've not heard one singing all weekend, and I've covered quite a lot of ground - at least 5 hours of walking.
Ken

My feeling too....I haven't seen or heard one for weeks.