Marylebone Birdwatching Society Trip List for Pulborough Brooks
Trip Date 18/04/2009 Type of trip Coach Outing
Start time 11:00 Leader’s name Andrew Peel
Number including leader 38
End time 16:00 Weather Warm & dry
Site details: Pulborough Brooks RSPB, West Sussex. Grid Ref: TQ0517
Highlights/Comments: Most of the group saw and heard Nightingale. Other highlights
included Lesser Whitethroat showing well and Bullfinch. Red Kite was
also spotted. There were a good variety of raptor, wildfowl and
warbler species. A female Adder was also found basking in the sun.
Birds heard: Tawny Owl
Birds seen
Cormorant Little Egret Grey Heron
Mute Swan Greylag Goose Canada Goose
Shelduck Wigeon Gadwall
Teal Mallard Pintail
Shoveler Red Kite Common Buzzard
Kestrel Peregrine Pheasant
Moorhen Coot Lapwing
Redshank Black-headed Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull
Feral Rock Dove Stock Dove Woodpigeon
Collared Dove Green Woodpecker Great Spotted Woodpecker
Skylark Swallow House Martin
Meadow Pipit Pied Wagtail Wren
Dunnock Robin Nightingale
Blackbird Song Thrush Mistle Thrush
Lesser Whitethroat Common Whitethroat Blackcap
Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Long-tailed Tit
Coal Tit Blue Tit Great Tit
Nuthatch Jay Magpie
Jackdaw Rook Carrion Crow
Starling Chaffinch Greenfinch
Goldfinch Linnet Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
Total: 64
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Butterflies, moths, dragonflies and other insects
Comma Orange Tip Peacock
Small Tortoiseshell Small White Speckled Wood
Red Admiral
Total: 7
Mammals, reptiles and amphibians
Adder Fallow Deer Fox
Rabbit Brown Hare
Total: 5
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