Saturday 20th March
Siskin on feeders at Lottage Road (Emily Best)
Saturday 3rd April
2 stonchat - Hi Peak byway (Emily and Matt Best)
Common Redstart bullock paddock, Lottage farm (Emily and Matt Best)
Hedgehog faeces found in the churchyard
Bird Sightings
Please submit your bird sightings via email (contact@aldbournewildlife.com) or via the contact box. Please do send photos if you are happy for them to be shared.
If a sighting interests you or has given you joy that you could share with others then please do submit, feel free to submit birds that have even been reported previously, it is interesting to know if they are still around.
Thursday 7th December 2023
Woodcock Four Barrows Track (Matthew Best)
Wednesday 6th December 2023
Raven Track to high clear down (Matthew Best)
Sunday 3rd December 2023
Heron, Treecreeper, Mistle Thursh, Goldcrest, Stonechats Four Barrows Track (1st Sunday of the month Four Barrows walk)
Peregrine Church tower (Matt Best)
Wednesday 22nd November 2023
3 Siskin, Great Spotted Woodpecker and 2 Raven Aldbourne (Matthew Best)
18 Lapwing, 2 Sonechats Giant's grave (Matthew Best)
Wednesday 15th November 2023
Siskin Love's Copse (Matthew Best)
Friday 10th November 2023
Barn Owl St Michael's Church (St Michael's Church automated Peregrine camera)
Wednesday 25th January 2023
1 Lapwing, 1 Reed Bunting High Clear Down Track (Matthew Best)
Wednesday 26th October 2022
Peregrine on the east face of the church tower this morning/early afternoon Aldbourne (Matt Best)
Tuesday 25th October 2022
Swift species, Common Gull and Firecrest Sugar Hill/Four Barrows track - note this is a very late record for swift and this might well have been a Pallid Swift rather than a Common Swift (Matt Best)
Sunday 23rd October 2022
64 Stock Doves Aldbourne Chase (Matt Best)
Saturday 22nd October 2022
Singing Woodlarks, a confiding Weasel, a siskin and lots of Redwings and Fieldfares around Love's Copse (Matt Best)
Friday 21st October 2022
Peregrine sitting on the South face of the church tower at 5pm - note that the peregrines have been around all summer but have been hard to see as they seem to have been spending most of their time on the tower at night (Emily Best)
Thursday 20th October 2022
Firecrest (2), Redwing (12), Fieldfare (81), Lesser Black-backed Gull (221) and Corn Bunting (3) Four Barrows walk (Matt Best)
Wednesday 19th October 2022
100 Redwing flying South (Matt Best)
Sunday 16th October 2022
Marsh Tit (2) and 81 Herring Gulls Upper Upham (Matt Best)
Stonechat (2) High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Saturday 15th October 2022
Barn Owl on Castle street 1km towards Marlborough (Matt Best)
Wednesday 12th October 2022
Stonechat near New Barns (Matt Best)
8 Reed Buntings divided between two separate feedstrips on private farmland (Matt Best)
Tuesday 11th October 2022
Raven (1) and Stonechat (2) on track near New Barns (Matt and Emily Best)
Stonechat 2 at High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Sunday 2nd October 2022
Firecrest was among 37 birds and 2 mammals on the Four Barrows monthly walk (Four Barrows Bird Walk),
Wednesday 28th September 2022
Raven Hawkins Road (Matt Best),
Wednesday 21st September 2022
Stonechat 3 on track near New Barns (Matt Best)
Stonechat 4 at High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Wednesday 14th September 2022
Raven Hawkins Road (Matt Best),
Wednesday 7th September 2022
Hobby Hawkins Road (Matt Best),
Sunday 28th August 2022
House Martin chicks, The Forge (Jon Beresford),
Sunday 7st August 2022
Redstart, Reed Bunting and Firecrest amoungst 40 species on the bird walk (Four Barrows Bird Walk)
Spotted flycatcher next to the Vicarage (Matthew Best)
Brimstone, Comma, Red Admiral and Small White Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Saturday 6th August 2022
Raven track to High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Redstart High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Monday 1st August 2022
Little Owl Whitley Road area (calling) (Matthew Best),
Sunday 31st July 2022
Hobby Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Sunday 3rd July 2022
40 species of birds including Firecrest Four Barrows Bird Walk (Four Barrows Bird Walk)
Friday 24th June 2022
Juvenile Blue Tits garden on Marlborough Road (Jenny Greaves),
Tuesday 21st June 2022
Woodlark two at Poors Gorse (Matthew Best)
Thursday 16th June 2022
Mallard with 8 new ducklings, the pond (Alice and Ben Best)
Monday 30th May 2022
Blue tit nest garden wall on Back lane (Nigel Payne)
Wednesday 25th May 2022
5 Firecrest fledgelings noisy and being fed by parents, track to Four Barrows (Matt Best)
Monday 19th May 2022
Yellow wagtail New Barn track (Jenny Greaves)
Saturday 7th May 2022
Garden Warbler Southward Triangle (Matt Best)
Wednesday 4th May 2022
Tree Pipit two singing at High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Monday 2nd May 2022
Heron on the pond (Nigel Payne)
Woodlark 2 at Poors Gorse (Matthew Best)
Sunday 1st May 2022
2 Whimbrel, yellow wagtail and 6 wheatear on the four barrows bird walk (Matthew Best)
Saturday 30th April 2022
Yellow wagtail and lots of whitethroats and a Long tailed tit nest on the track to High Clear Down (Emily and Matthew Best)
Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Brambling (Male) Giant's Grave (Matthew Best)
Singing Meadow Pipits and Stonechat Sugar Hill (Matthew Best)
Several large groups of fieldfare on the Aldbourne Circuit also 49 Linnets beyond Four Barrows (Matthew Best)
Monday 21st March 2022
3 Brambling, lots of Siskins, singing treecreeper and 3 or 4 Marsh Tits Love's Copse (Emily Best)
1 Woodlark Singing near Love's Lane (Emily Best)
Sunday 20th March 2022
Firecrest singing in the pine spinney before Love's Copse (also many goldcrests in the same location (Matthew Best)
5 Lesser Redpoll, lots of Siskins, singing treecreeper and nuthatches Love's Copse (Matthew Best)
3 Woodlark Singing near Love's Lane (Matthew Best)
Female Brambling under and on the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Saturday 19th March 2022
2 Firecrests at the bottom of the four barrows track (Matthew Best)
Wednesday 16th March 2022
2 Bramblings on a Manor Farm feed strip (Henry Brown and Matthew Best)
Barn Owl North Field Barn (Ben and Matthew Best)
Tuesday 15th March 2022
Grey Wagtail, West Street (Rob Warren)
Sunday 13th March 2022
Chiffchaff (singing) and Firecrests at the bottom of the four barrows track (James Wallace)
Sunday 6th March 2022
2 Cormorants on the four barrows track (Four Barrows Monthly walk)
3 Peregrines around the church tower in the morning (NickWhelan and Matthew Best)
Woodlark (2) Love's Lane (Matthew Best)
Saturday 5th March 2022
Female Brambling still around the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Friday 4th March 2022
Female Brambling around the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Thursday 3rd March 2022
Female Brambling around the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Thursday 17th February 2022
3 woodlark performing song flight, Loves Lane (Emily Best)
Sunday 12th February 2022
Brambling, East Lease Farm (Matt Best)
Saturday 11th February 2022
Lesser Redpoll, 100+ Siskins, Goldfinches, Loves Copse (Matt Best)
3 woodlarks, Loves Lane (Matt Best)
Monday 7th February 2022
Barn Owl beside b4192 next to Shipley Bottom (Matt Best)
Thursday 3rd February 2022
15 Siskins, Loves Copse (Emily Best)
Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Robin, Singing on the Back Track (Ros Oswald)
Tuesday 1st February 2022
5 Ravens, The Dean (Matt Best)
Monday 31st January 2022
Sparrowhawk, Flying over field at bottom of Four Barrows track (Emily Best)
Sunday 30 January 2022
2 Long tailed tits and a herron, garden on The Downs (Christopher Ainsworth)
Thursday 27th January 2022
10 Golden Plover, Flying over North Field Barn (Emily Best)
Wednesday 26th January 2022
2 Marsh tits, Loves Copse (Emily and Matthew Best)
2 Goldcrests Southward Lane(Emily Best)
Tuesday 25th January 2022
1o Woodlark Near Poors Gorse (Emily Best)
Linnets (large flock), a couple of Bramblings, 6 Woodlarks,Poors Gorse (Mike Hellier)
Monday 24th January 2022
Siskins (small flock) and a female bullfinch Loves Lane (Mike Hellier)
Sunday 23rd January 2022
14 Woodlark Near Poors Gorse (Matthew Best)
1 Woodcock just west of West Leaze flew over the road (Matthew and Emily Best)
20 Red Kites Pentico Wood (Matthew Best)
1 Marsh Tit Southern Copse/Hilltop Farm (Matthew Best)
Saturday 22nd January 2022
Lapwing Woodsend (Matthew Best)
Tuesday 18th January 2022
5 Bullfinches, Love's Lane, (Emily Best)
2 Marsh tits, Love's Copse (Matt Best)
Monday 17th January 2022
30 yellowhammers, Four Barrows track, (Emily Best)
Sunday 16th January 2022
Little Owl, Kandahar, (Ros Oswald)
Common Gull Upper Upham (Craig Brookes)
Wednesday 12th January 2022
2 Stonechats, track to High Clear Down, (Emily Best)
Blackcap male, caught in mist net on Lottage Road (Matt Best)
Wednesday 22nd December 2021
11 yellowhammers, confiding flock on the Four Barrows track, (Emily Best)
Male Bullfinch, bottom of Four Barrow track (Emily Best)
Wednesday 15th December 2021
20 Corn Buntings, 27 Yellowhammers, 2 Stonechats and a Raven Manor Farm (Matthew Best)
50 + Yellowhammers Upper Upham (Emily and Matthew Best)
Tuesday 14th December 2021
Merlin Highclear Down nature reserve (Wiltshire Wildlife Trust)
Wednesday 8th December 2021
25 Corn Buntings close to North Field Cottages, Lottage Road (William Brown, Matt Best)
Sunday 5th December 2021
31 species including Firecrest and Stonechat on the monthly Sunday walk, for full list see here (Four Barrows Bird Walk)
Raven over the Ridgeway close to the Ogbourne Road (Matt Best)
Barn Owl Ogbourne Road just past Woodsend, hunting by roadside at 7pm (Matt and Emily Best)
Friday 3rd December 2021
Mistle Thrush, Great spotted woodpecker, garden on Kandahar (Nick Whelan)
Thursday 2nd December 2021
Dead Barn Owl on the B4192 north of the village (Matt Best)
Thursday 18th November 2021
Approximately 2000 starlings close over New Barn on B4192 (Emily Best)
Wednesday 17th November 2021
Raven and Bullfinch close to the brewery (Emily Best)
Sunday 14th November 2021
2 Ravens, 200 Linnet from track to Highclear Down (Emily Best)
Wednesday 10th November 2021
Marsh Tit opposite Laines Grain Store, Stock Lane (Matthew Best)
Sunday 7th November 2021
2 Stonechats, peregrine, kestrel, red kite, buzzard Shipley bottom (Matt Best)
Wednesday 3rd November 2021
3 Woodlark calling and landing in the field between Love's Copse and Love's Lane (Matt and Emily Best)
Brambling (f), 100 chaffinches, 4 bullfinches, 55 skylark and 10 yellowhammers along Love's Lane (Matt and Emily Best)
Tuesday 2nd November 2021
2 Stonechats as well as buntings and redwings on the byway to Four Barrows (Emily Best)
Friday 2nd April
3 swallows - two over Manor farm, one over the village (Emily Best)
2 Siskin (M+F) on feeders, Lottage Road, here all week (Emily Best)
Peregrine on the church
8 Wheatear and 2 Ring Ouzel just out of the Parish at Liddington Hill - up to 5 Ouzels reported (Bests)
Saturday 3rd April
2 stonchat - Hi Peak byway (Emily and Matt Best)
Common Redstart bullock paddock, Lottage farm (Emily and Matt Best)
Hedgehog faeces found in the churchyard
Saturday 3rd April
2 stonchat - Hi Peak byway (Emily and Matt Best)
Common Redstart bullock paddock, Lottage farm (Emily and Matt Best)
Hedgehog faeces found in the churchyard
Friday 2nd April
3 swallows - two over Manor farm, one over the village (Emily Best)
2 Siskin (M+F) on feeders, Lottage Road, here all week (Emily Best)
Peregrine on the church
8 Wheatear and 2 Ring Ouzel just out of the Parish at Liddington Hill - up to 5 Ouzels reported (Bests)
Friday 2nd April
3 swallows - two over Manor farm, one over the village (Emily Best)
2 Siskin (M+F) on feeders, Lottage Road, here all week (Emily Best)
Peregrine on the church
8 Wheatear and 2 Ring Ouzel just out of the Parish at Liddington Hill - up to 5 Ouzels reported (Bests)
Tuesday 30th March
Lottage Road moth catch
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2 Common Quakers
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3 Hebrew Characters
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1 Double-striped Pug
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4 Small Quakers
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1 Clouded Drab
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1 Twin-spotted Quaker
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1 Early Grey
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and a micro (Diurnea fagella)
Brimstone, comma, small tortoiseshell, peacock around Aldbourne village today
Thursday 1st April
Hummingbird Hawkmoth - Goddard's Lane Park (Emily and Sophie Best)
Thursday 1st April
Hummingbird Hawkmoth - Goddard's Lane Park (Emily and Sophie Best)
Sunday 28th March
Two peregrines, male and female calling on the south face of the tower (Emily Best)
120 chaffinches, 60 yellowhammers, 1 brambling, 5 goldfinches Love's Lane byway (Matt and Emily Best)
Saturday 27th March
Wood anemone by the road at Ewin's Hill Farm (Matt and Ben Best)
Muntjac Deer grazing beside Nationwide Removals Barns (Alice and Matt Best)
Tuesday 30th March
Lottage Road moth catch
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2 Common Quakers
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3 Hebrew Characters
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1 Double-striped Pug
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4 Small Quakers
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1 Clouded Drab
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1 Twin-spotted Quaker
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1 Early Grey
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and a micro (Diurnea fagella)
Brimstone, comma, small tortoiseshell, peacock around Aldbourne village today
Tuesday 30th March
Lottage Road moth catch
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2 Common Quakers
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3 Hebrew Characters
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1 Double-striped Pug
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4 Small Quakers
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1 Clouded Drab
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1 Twin-spotted Quaker
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1 Early Grey
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and a micro (Diurnea fagella)
Brimstone, comma, small tortoiseshell, peacock around Aldbourne village today
Sunday 28th March
Two peregrines, male and female calling on the south face of the tower (Emily Best)
120 chaffinches, 60 yellowhammers, 1 brambling, 5 goldfinches Love's Lane byway (Matt and Emily Best)
Sunday 28th March
Two peregrines, male and female calling on the south face of the tower (Emily Best)
120 chaffinches, 60 yellowhammers, 1 brambling, 5 goldfinches Love's Lane byway (Matt and Emily Best)
Saturday 27th March
Wood anemone by the road at Ewin's Hill Farm (Matt and Ben Best)
Muntjac Deer grazing beside Nationwide Removals Barns (Alice and Matt Best)
Saturday 27th March
Wood anemone by the road at Ewin's Hill Farm (Matt and Ben Best)
Muntjac Deer grazing beside Nationwide Removals Barns (Alice and Matt Best)
Saturday 20th March
Siskin on feeders at Lottage Road (Emily Best)
Saturday 20th March
Siskin on feeders at Lottage Road (Emily Best)