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| Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16/03/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Crowthorne Wood | 5 | R Dawson |
10:00 | At least 5 Crossbill sp in pines approx 200m N of pull-in and near edge of open area. Call sounded more like PC and 2 birds seen cutting off cones. Looks like these were actually Common Crossbill per Jerry O'Briens later report. Apologies. SU850650. | |||
| 11/03/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 4 | L R Blundell |
| 11:50 | Open area in the Bottom. Sat above my head. | |||
| 03/03/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 3 | J W O'Brien |
| m.f + other. the male singing and flew off with a female (third bird left same tree a bit later). | ||||
| 17/02/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 1 | J W O'Brien |
| 14:03 | per Birdguides - no details on location/number. | |||
| 11/02/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 10 | J E Mcgowan |
| 09:25 | male and fem. More than 10 seen. | |||
| 08/02/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 8 | C Gent |
| 11:00 | 8 approx flew past me twittering just over the border in Poors Allotment - pretty sure of identity based mainly on calls. | |||
| 06/02/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 1 | M Jones |
 | I was at Wishmoor Bottom on Sunday with no sightings. This followed a visit I made on Friday when the whole area was full of soldiers clearly practicing advancing and firing. Clearly noisy over the whole area. My full support for them practicing, but I wonder if the PCs have moved on. No reports since on RareBird Alert either. | |||
| 30/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | A D Bassett |
| All 16 in the usual trees and drinking puddle on the north of the site at 13:30-13:45 then flew to trees 300 yards south. Had been absent for at least 2 hours prior to this before a flock of 12 was seen to fly from the far NE to the far south near the pylons. 30 mins later the 16 arrived back in the usual trees. | ||||
| 30/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 10 | P Hickman |
| 10:00 | Minimum of ten in flight then feeding in tree on east side of usual area. | |||
| 28/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 14 | P Bright-Thomas |
| 09:00 | 4 in from S and 10 in from N before returning to main forest. | |||
| 25/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 2 | J W O'Brien |
| a pair seen three times over the morning. A pair of commons also seen/heard. | ||||
| 22/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 10 | D Mackenzie |
| 13:00 | Small flock in the usual pines before dropping down onto a Silver Birch sapling and then down to a 'new' puddle. | |||
| 19/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | B T Bennett |
| 09:50 | In Scots pines toward the NE of open area, dropping down to drinking pools. 16 counted as they flew in. | |||
| 18/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 2 | J W O'Brien |
| 10:30 | m, f. A pair came down to drink at the usual puddle before flying off (didn't see any others in the 30 mins I was there). Lots and lots of soldiers banging away on both sides of the stream. | |||
| 14/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | N Cleere |
| 09:15 | in usual trees upon my arrival. Seemed very settled and still feeding happily when I left 30 mins later. Only one other birder there ! | |||
| 13/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 1 | P E Hutchins |
| Per Birdguides "one still this afternoon but mobile". | ||||
| 13/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 1 | J W O'Brien |
| 14:58 | per Birdguides - no number indicated. | |||
| 10/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | J W O'Brien |
| Reported at 8am then not seen until 3pm at least. | ||||
| 07/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | P J Newbound |
| 11:00 | Saw 6 myself apparently 16 present in favourite tree. | |||
| 06/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | R H Stansfield |
| 08:20 | Still present in eastern section. All flew off together east at 09:22 after several had come down to drink in nearby puddle. First located by TS. | |||
| 05/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | J W O'Brien |
| The area of tall pines in the north of the common (The "usual" area). | ||||
| 04/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 10 | R J Godden |
| Flew into a tree next to me in the open area from behind; I only counted 5 before they disappeared into deep cover, but another observer saw at least 10 fly in. | ||||
| 01/01/18 | PARROT CROSSBILL | Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest | 16 | P Driver |
| The flock seen in flight by several observers from the usual spot at c.9am, dropped down in middle distance and not relocated in the next hour. | ||||