Doug MacKenzie Dodds
Website: www.dmackdimages.co.uk
Recent sightings
Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
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25/07/24 | Swift | Bracknell | 6 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
18:47 | High. mobile, vocal flock drifting south in drizzle. No squadron fly by last night for first time in weeks. They're going... aren't they? | |||
18/07/24 | Swift | Bracknell | 8 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
09:47 | Up to 8x 3rd wave birds (I presume) vocally checking out our house & local area, this morning, for an hour or so, on & off. Biggest screaming squadron so far this season. | |||
18/07/24 | Swift | Bracknell | 30 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
21:31 | At least. In a tight, vocal flock, circling high above the town for at least 30 minutes. Never seen such a numerous flock before here (over this very non-swift, post-war town). Lovely to see. | |||
16/06/24 | Hobby | Wildmoor Heath Nature Reserve | 1 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
11:30 | Catching dragonflies & putting on a bit of an aerobatic display. | |||
12/06/24 | Blackcap | Bracknell | 2 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
08:36 | 1 fledgling in garden. Just one. Begging for food from its mother. | |||
10/06/24 | Red Kite | Binfield | 24 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
11:30 | Most on the ground, making hay (metaphorically), by hoovering up the exposed goodies after the farmer in his tractor had turned over the meadow and made hay (literally). | |||
10/06/24 | Great Spotted Woodpecker | Bracknell | 2 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
08:43 | In our biggest poplar, taking the emerging hornet moths from the roots of the tree (in competition with a great tit and a pair of magpies). | |||
02/06/24 | Swift | Bracknell | 5 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
21:09 | Up to 5 tonight. 2 main visitors joined by 3 extras briefly. Also in same airspace tonight (at the same time) was at least one noctule bat. | |||
07/05/24 | Swift | Bracknell | 15 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
12:10 | High flying, screaming flocks arriving over garden today in the SUNSHINE. Each flocks 15+ birds strong. I counted 2 flocks. There will have been more, I'm sure. | |||
05/05/24 | Swift | Lily Hill Park, Bracknell | 2 | D A MacKenzie Dodds |
09:06 | My first 2 swifts over the town this year at the rugby club. A few more over the Downshire golf club a few hours later . |