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Friday Wood 11:00 to 13:00, Warm
4 Buzzard 3 Raven Kestrel Sparrowhawk 2 Lesser Whitethroat Cetti's Warbler 2 Green Woodpecker 2 Jay Nuthatch 3 Chiffchaff Coal Tit [Yvonne Watling]

Friday Wood 13:30 to 16:00, Sunny warm
1 Red Kite (Over Miltary corrective training centre into wood) 2 Bullfinch (Calling birds) [Andrew Goodey]

Friday Wood 09:00 to 15:00, Swallow Birding Day Trip (Also seen: WHITE ADMIRAL, SW FRITILLARY, 20+ SOUTHERN MIGRANT HAWKERS amongst others)
1 Bullfinch (male) 1 Buzzard 6 Chiffchaff 3 Blackcap 1 Cetti's Warbler 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 Green Woodpecker 1 Common Tern [Steve Grimwade]

Friday Wood 09:00 to 15:30, Swallow Birding Day Trip (Also seen: WHITE ADMIRAL, SW FRITILLARY, PURPLE & WHITE-LETTER HAIRSTREAKS amongst others)
1 Kingfisher (Eye level flight views on Roman River) 1 Hobby (Adult) 2 Nightingale 4 Chiffchaff 5 Blackcap 1 Buzzard 3 Kestrel 3 Green Woodpecker 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Nuthatch [Steve Grimwade]

Friday Wood 14:15 to 16:30, Sunny 3/8
1 Hobby 1 Mediterranean Gull (One flew over calling ) [Andrew Goodey]

Friday Wood 09:30 to 12:00, 6/8 cloud sunny periods
2 Cuckoo 1 Firecrest (brief song heard near to where male was singing and showing on May 5th) 5 Nightingale (Singing in area visited only) [Andrew Goodey]

Friday Wood 10:30 to 13:00, Sunny becoming cloudy
1 Firecrest (male singing for c20 minutes in suitable breeding habitat) 5 Garden Warbler (singing males in general area of sandpit and nearby heathland) 1 Mistle Thrush (pair on heath by Cherry Tree Lane ) 6 Whitethroat 6 Nightingale (singing males either side of Cherry Tree Lane. In good numbers this year) [Andrew Goodey]

Friday Wood 10:00 to 12:00, Sunny and windy
8 Nightingale 2 Lesser Whitethroat 20 Whitethroat 10 Chiffchaff 2 Garden Warbler 2 Reed Bunting 5 Reed Warbler (Along river) 2 Shelduck 2 Egyptian Goose 1 Little Egret 1 Cuckoo 2 Bullfinch 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Tawny Owl 3 Swallow 2 Kestrel [Yvonne Watling]

Friday Wood 11:00 to 13:00, Sunny; 6/8 windy
1 Spotted Flycatcher [Andrew Goodey]

Friday Wood 10:00 to 13:00, Windy
3 Nightingale 10 Whitethroat 12 Blackcap 10 Chiffchaff 3 Reed Warbler (Along Roman River ) 2 Reed Bunting 2 Cetti's Warbler 1 Greenshank 1 Green Sandpiper 1 Snipe 1 Little Egret 4 Shelduck 2 Egyptian Goose 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Buzzard 1 Tawny Owl 20 Swallow 4 Sand Martin 1 House Martin 2 Coal Tit (Plus blue, great Long-tail ) 1 Song Thrush 1 Red Kite 2 Kestrel 2 Goldcrest [Yvonne Watling]

Friday Wood 06:00 to 11:00, 5/8 cloud
8 Nightingale 8 Whitethroat 2 Garden Warbler 10 Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Green Woodpecker 14 Blackcap 4 Mistle Thrush 3 Swallow 5 Song Thrush 2 Linnet 3 Goldfinch 1 Chaffinch (None recorded where usually a common breeder) 26 Chiffchaff (many former Willow Warbler territories taken by this species ) 14 Blackbird 3 Wren 2 Greenfinch (Displaying males) 1 Egyptian Goose (Birch GC, walked across the ninth hole in front of groundsman) [Andrew Goodey]