Tyttenhanger GPs Bird Report 2018

The Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits Bird Report for 2018, edited and produced by Ricky Flesher and Peter Christian, is available now.
Download you copy HERE
The Great Herts Breeding Bird Challenge
UPDATE 23rd August
We have now received 1,166 separate breeding records of 93 species for 2020. This is a big increase on previous years so many thanks to all those who have submitted records
The tables below show the numbers for selected common and scarce species, and for some a comparison with the number of records in 2018.
Please continue to submit breeding records, especially for
Write up: The Great Herts Garden Bird Count, April 2020
April 2020 will be long remembered as the month of the garden count!
Following the outbreak of Covid-19 and subsequent 'Stay Home' instruction from the Government in late March, the planned county wide bird race on 25th April had to be canceled as did the spring migration routines of most birders in what is of course the most anticipated and often
BTO Survey Update 13 May 2020

Please read this important update from BTO: BTO and COVID-19. In particular please note:
Breeding Bird Challenge - Unusual Nest Sites
Update 24 May 2020:
Thank you to everyone who has submitted records so far for the The Great Herts Breeding Bird Challenge which have included a number of unconventional locations!
Blue Tits and Great Tits seem particularly opportunistic. Blue Tits have been observed nesting in: a lamppost, playground equipment, behind a drainpipe, an old gate post, and holes in buildings including: a doctor's surgery, a bike shed, a cafe (same nest 3rd year running) and an