Monthly Bird Walks
The Friends run a fascinating series of two-hour bird-watching walks on the first Sunday of each month, except July to September (when breeding is over and leaf-cover makes bird spotting difficult), and January (when the walk switches to the second Sunday). Led by an experienced member of the local RSPB, the walks are FREE and begin at 10am from the Donnefield Avenue entrance to the Park. No need to book, just turn up and stay as long as you like! The pace is not too fast but comfortable shoes are a must and if you have binoculars, bring them with you.

There’s a wide variety of species to be seen in the Park, including a sizeable colony of Ring–necked Parakeets. These noisy and colourful imports from the Himalayan region of India have colonised areas of the park, particularly the Spinney and can now be seen throughout the Canons Park Estate.
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2019 dates:
5 May 
6 October
3 November
1 December

HERE ARE THE REPORTS FROM THE LATEST WALKS IN  JANUARY 2019 and MARCH 2019

Sunday 13 January 2019
Canons Park & (private) Seven Acre Lake 
Red Kite, 72 Redwing. Lake: 2 Grey Heron, 5 Little Egrets, 4 Cormorant, 6 Shoveler. 7 Tufted Duck, pair Mallard, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, 4 Coot, 60 Black-headed Gull, 4 Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull.

Sunday 3 March 2019
Canons Park and (private) Seven Acre Lake
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
53 Black-headed Gull
8+ Wood Pigeon
Stock Dove 2 singing
Rose-ringed Parakeet - several pairs very noisy
Green Woodpecker - calling
Great Spotted Woodpecker - drumming
Jay
5 Magpie  
Western Jackdaws
Carrion Crows
Blue Tit  
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit (FB & KB)
Wren
Dunnock - singing
Eurasian Nuthatch - calling
Blackbird
3 REDWING
Robin
Common Chaffinch  -singing
European Goldfinch

 (Private) Seven Acre Lake

13 Canada Goose
3 Cormorant
1 Great Crested Grebe
1 Grey Heron
3 Little Egret
2 Mallad - pair
8 Shoveler 4 pair
Tufted Duck 3 pair + if
2 Common Pochard - both 1w males
3 Common Coot
Common Moorhen
Lesser Black-backed Gull (same as park?)
25 Black-headed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Ring-necked /Rose-ringed Parakeets  - calling
Green Woodpecker - calling
Western Jackdaw
Carrion Crow
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Wren
Robin
Song Thrush - singing
 
The BASIN LAKE, Canons Drive
 
Grey-lag Goose
2 Canada Geese
2 Mallard
Moorhen




 



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