Wandsworth Common
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| - | birds | + | Wandsworth Common is a fairly typical London Park, around a mile long and 0.3 miles wide. It is cut by a number of roads and a railway line and contains new-build housing, sports facilities and a restaurant. The main habitat is grassland (regularly mown) interspersed with trees. There is a also a complex of very small ponds. |
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| + | The common has a pretty limited number of species. | ||
| + | In summer it supports 3-5 singing Chiffchaffs, 1 (sometimes 2) singing Willow Warbler, 2-3 singing Blackcaps, and occasional Whitethroat (in three of the last five years). | ||
| + | Other breeding birds include: Mute Swan, Mallard, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Song Thrush. Woodpeckers do not breed but Great Spotted Woodpecker are regularly seen during post-breeding dispersal. | ||
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| + | Hard winter weather increases the number of duck with additional Tufted, Pochard and Shoveler. | ||
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| + | Kestrels are usually the only birds of prey, although Sparrowhawks are an occasional fly-over. | ||
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| + | Details of 2006 records can be found here: [[Wandsworth Common 2006]]. | ||
Revision as of 14:19, 10 October 2007
Wandsworth Common is a fairly typical London Park, around a mile long and 0.3 miles wide. It is cut by a number of roads and a railway line and contains new-build housing, sports facilities and a restaurant. The main habitat is grassland (regularly mown) interspersed with trees. There is a also a complex of very small ponds.
The common has a pretty limited number of species. In summer it supports 3-5 singing Chiffchaffs, 1 (sometimes 2) singing Willow Warbler, 2-3 singing Blackcaps, and occasional Whitethroat (in three of the last five years). Other breeding birds include: Mute Swan, Mallard, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Song Thrush. Woodpeckers do not breed but Great Spotted Woodpecker are regularly seen during post-breeding dispersal.
Hard winter weather increases the number of duck with additional Tufted, Pochard and Shoveler.
Kestrels are usually the only birds of prey, although Sparrowhawks are an occasional fly-over.
Details of 2006 records can be found here: Wandsworth Common 2006.
