Outchester & Ross Holiday Cottages, Northumberland: Holiday Information
Bird Watching Around Outchester And Ross
This is just a pot-luck appetizer list of 149 for bird watchers.
Please let us know of any adjustments you think necessary.
Budle Bay, Ross Sands and Fenham Flats are part of the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve. The local warden is Andrew Craggs at Beal (telephone 01289 381470).
Seashore / mudflats birds are marked with *.
Resident Birds (66) Mute Swan * Greylag Goose Shelduck * Mallard * Eiderduck (Cuddy's Duck)* Tufted Duck Cormorant * Grey Heron Little Grebe Common Buzzard Sparrowhawk Kestrel Grey Partridge Red-leg Partridge Pheasant Coot Waterhen (Moorhen) Oystercatcher * Lapwing * Curlew * Redshank * Black headed Gull * Common Gull * Herring Gull * Great blackbacked Gull * Wood Pigeon Collared Dove Barn Owl Tawny Owl Little Owl Great Spotted Woodpecker Skylark Meadow Pipit Rock Pipit * Pied Wagtail * Grey Wagtail Wren Hedge Sparrow (Dunnock) Robin Stonechat Blackbird Song Thrush Mistle Thrush Goldcrest Blackcap Longtailed Tit Coal Tit Great Tit Blue Tit Treecreeper Nuthatch Jay Magpie Rook Carrion Crow * Jackdaw Starling House Sparrow Tree Sparrow Chaffinch Greenfinch Goldfinch Linnet Bullfinch Siskin Yellowhammer Reed Bunting Very Rare Visitors (9) | Winter Visitors (30) Whooper Swan * Pink footed Goose * Barnacle Goose * Light bellied Brent Goose * Dark bellied Brent Goose * Widgeon * Pintail * Teal Common Scoter * Velvet Scoter * Red breasted Merganser * Ringed Plover * Golden Plover * Sanderling * Knot * Dunlin * Snipe Woodcock Black-tailed Godwit * Turnstone * Fieldfare Redwing Brambling Twite * Merlin * Red throated Diver * Slavonian Grebe * Long tailed Duck * Summer Visitors (25) Uncommon Birds (18) |