Birding Group Visit to Marbury Park
The last birding group outing of the Spring term took us to Marbury Country Park with a view to having our planning session for next term at the “Spinner and Bergamot” pub afterwards. Be that as it may, we still had time to cover most of what we usually do at Marbury and in the process, we got three year-ticks.
The park was full of bird song with Dunnocks, Wrens, Robins, Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, Blackcaps and Garden Warblers all filling the air with a wash of sound. I managed to see a couple of the Blackcaps but could only hear the Garden Warbler – despite its persistent calling around the area of the first hide that overlooks the lake.
From the fist hide we could see huge numbers of Coots and Great Crested Grebes as well as a smattering of Mallards. Further back we could see both a Great Egret and a couple of Little Egrets. At the far water’s edge there was a Common Sandpiper bobbing along the edge of the water and a few Lapwings flew around.
Also on the lake were a pair of Egyptian Geese and, in fact, there may have been another pair way at the back but they were hunkered down, so it wasn’t clear. On a post was a single Common Tern.
We walked along the edge of the lake and up to the hide overlooking the feeders in the woods. I had some food, so I nipped round and threw some on the otherwise empty table. This attracted a few Tits and a couple of Nuthatches
Further round we found some Long-tailed Tits and a Chiffchaff or two was singing. After we left the woods, there wasn’t a lot to see so we completed the circuit without much more interest. It was another hot and sultry day in a Summer that has got off to a very hot start.
We finished up and drove to the “Spinner and Bergamot” for lunch. We really shouldn’t bother with this pub for lunch again; the food was awful, and the service was slow. This isn’t the first time I have regretted going there. It just isn’t what it should have been. At the pub we ordered our food and then had plenty of time to plan the next term’s schedule before any food arrived. The usual people who chair the planning sessions were not able to be there so I took the reins, and I think we had a fairly good planning session the results of which can be seen here.
Year Ticks
- Common Tern
- Garden Warbler
- Mistle Thrush
Bird Sightings : Marbury Country Park 1 July 2025
| Species | No |
|---|---|
| Black-headed Gull | 3 |
| Blackbird | 3 |
| Blackcap | 3 |
| Blue Tit | 6 |
| Canada Goose | 20 |
| Chiffchaff | 1 |
| Common Sandpiper | 1 |
| Common Tern | 1 |
| Coot | 40 |
| Cormorant | 6 |
| Dunnock | 2 |
| Egyptian Goose | 2 |
| Garden Warbler | 1 |
| Goldfinch | 2 |
| Great Crested Grebe | 30 |
| Great Tit | 6 |
| Great White Egret | 1 |
| Greenfinch | 1 |
| Grey Heron | 1 |
| Lapwing | 8 |
| Little Egret | 2 |
| Long-tailed Tit | 2 |
| Magpie | 4 |
| Mallard | 30 |
| Mistle Thrush | 1 |
| Nuthatch | 2 |
| Oystercatcher | 1 |
| Robin | 3 |
| Song Thrush | 2 |
| Woodpigeon | 4 |
| Wren | 2 |