JANUARY 2019
2nd Small
flock of 9 Barnacle Goose on cricket green on Granta Park.
3rd
Polecat found dead on side of road on Granta Park.
7th Sparrowhawk circling
high above Sluice Woods, and again in a low-level, high speed attack on a flock
of feeding Redwing on 29 Feb.
8th Peacock butterfly
seen in Lt Abington garden.
22nd Pair of Little Egret seen in
Sluice Woods, and a female Reed Bunting regularly visiting a
garden feeder on Bourn Bridge Road. Group of 12 Canada
Goose and a Greylag on Granta Park lake.
A Badger
was reported on Great Abington cricket pitch.
23rd Low numbers of Greenfinch reported
on garden feeders this year (only 1-2 and not often seen), compared to larger
groups of Goldfinch and Chaffinch being
regularly reported.
25th One or
two pairs of Stock Dove seen regularly in ivy-covered trees
near the sluice.
26th Lovely display of Snowdrops near
the sluice and in Lagden’s Grove on Granta Park. Aconite flower buds
remain resolutely tightly closed.
31st An unusual sighting of a large pale-ish brown
owl, most likely a Short-eared Owl, hunting in the late afternoon
over scrubby ground on Bourn Bridge Road.
Many thanks to all those who have contributed
reports of their sightings for January 2019:
Peter Brunning, David Farrant, Jennifer
Hirsh, Andy Merryweather, David Pimblet, Sally Simmons, Richard
Smith.
Please email your sightings, from within the
Abington parishes, to the relevant ANW Recorder:
Amphibians:
Anne Dunbar Nobes ac.dunbar.nobes@gmail.com
Birds: Derek Turnidge derek@turnidges.com
Butterflies
etc Jennifer Hirsh jennifer@hirsh.com
Flowers: Sally Turnidge sally@turnidges.com
Mammals: Gill Smith richardandgill.smith@live.co.uk
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