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Masses of Mute Swans
27 January 2012
One of the great things about BirdTrack is that it can instantly put a particular sighting into perspective. So when I saw 27 Mute Swans at the Nunnery Lakes on Saturday, I was able to find out that of my 234 records of this species (which features on 76% of my visits to the site), this was my highest count by 8! A couple of clicks later and I was viewing the overall reporting rate, which is running a few percent higher than the last couple of winters! Coincidence, probably, but interesting all the same.
Iceland Gull
20 January 2012
A sizeable influx of Iceland Gulls in the last couple of weeks has been typified by exceptional numbers on the Outer Hebrides, with up to 67 counted at one location on Lewis over the weekend! The influx is reflected in both the reporting rate and map for BirdTrack records in 2012. The map makes for an interesting comparison with the map for 2011, clearly showing that there has already been a wider geographic spread of records this year than for the whole of 2011. Particularly noticeable are the higher number of records from the coasts of Ireland, Wales and western Scotland.
BirdTrack Team