Easy to see around the village, good for new bird spotters to identify |
Frequent visitor fairly easy to find around the village and surrounds |
More difficult to spot, rare to find in the village, you will have to go looking for these |
A rare find, keep your eyes open, you never know you might be lucky. |
Shrikes and Crows |
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Spotted in Wanborough or around |
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Jay |
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Common Magpie |
Black with a White vest and not very friendly, very common across the parish. |
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Carrion Crow |
So as not to confuse with the Rook, the old country saying goes 'If it's a Crow in a crowd, it's a Rook. If it's a Rook on it's own, it's a Crow'. Can be seen around Foxhill and in the fields across Wanborough Plain |
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Rook |
Large rookery forms each spring in tall deciduous trees at the top of Callas Hill, above the telephone exchange, Around the crossroads at Foxhill and as you leave the village along Ham Road |
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Jackdaw |
Jet black with a beady blue eye, likes to hang around roofs and chimney pots etc. Regularly perched on roof tops around Upper Wanborough |
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Common Starling |
Once the most common bird in UK, can still be seen near to houses around the village, likes to perch on TV aerials. |
Plovers |
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Spotted in Wanborough or around |
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Golden Plover |