Thursday 19 October 2017

How many hawfinches are there out there?

It's clear from a number of sources that high numbers of hawfinch are being recorded in Britain this autumn.

The graph below from BirdTrack shows that their reporting rate (as a proportion of complete bird lists entered to BirdTrack in Britain) is presently well above the average historic reporting rate for this species at this time of year.

So far we've not been lucky enough to find one in the Martletwy area, although we wonder how many others are likely to be around the county.