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Birds and other
wildlife recorded in June 2019
All
the summer migrants have arrived, the breeding season is well underway, and
even over for some species. June has proved to be a quiet month in Linslade
Woods; many people are on holiday and so fewer records of birds and other
wildlife are sent! Red Kites and Buzzards were seen and heard over the woodland
canopy. Woodpigeons and Stock Doves called from the trees. Overhead Swifts were
observed – they are here for only a few months, May to August – and Leighton Buzzard
is still a good stronghold of these aerial masters who spend virtually all
their lives on the wing except when actually breeding. Great-spotted and Green
Woodpeckers were fairly frequently encountered as were the corvids: Magpie,
Jackdaw, Jay and Carrion Crow. But nobody recorded a Rook!
There
are plenty of Great and Blue Tits around, many of them nesting in the boxes
dotted around the new wood. Skylarks sang from the nearby fields, and Long-tailed
Tits were heard, their contact calls not so common during the actual breeding
season. Nuthatches and Treecreepers were heard (many older people are no longer
able to hear the high-pitched calls of the latter). Three summer migrant
warblers were found: Blackcap, Garden Warbler and Chiffchaff, and the resident
Wren, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock were also around in good numbers. House
Sparrows were near the urban fringes of the wood. Both Bullfinches and
Greenfinches were heard but nobody recorded a Chaffinch or a Goldfinch normally
the most common of the finches!
Many butterflies of
high summer have now been seen: Meadow Brown, Ringlet, Marbled White, Large
White, Green-veined White, Small Skipper – and there are plenty more species to
be found, so - Please send in your records
Find out
what has
been spotted in 2019 So far - click here
To see what
was spotted in 2017 - click here
To see what
was spotted in
2016 - click here
or
to see
lists of previous sightings (2010 to 2015) - click
here
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