Manx bird sightings for week ending 5th August 2012

For full details of the week’s sightings, please click here. They can also be seen by clicking on ‘RECENT REPORTS’ at the top of the screen, go down to ‘August’, then clicking on ‘5th’. Thank you to everyone who has sent in their observations and photographs.

Observations from the Calf of Man for week ending 5th August are available here. The July 2012 ‘Grapevine’ for the Calf of Man Bird Observatory is also available here; the ‘Grapevine’ is a monthly summary of the observations, ringing, highlights and low-lights.

Please continue to send in your observations and photographs using this form.

The number of different species reported so far this year to Manx BirdLife is now 174, see here for details. The two new species this week are Marsh Harrier and Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon.

: Short-eared Owl – Peel Hill – 01 08 2012. Photo: Paul O’Donnell

: leucistic Jackdaw – Tynwald Mills – 01 08 2012. Photo: Paul O’Donnell

: Marsh Harrier – Santon – 30 07 2012. Photo: Brian Liggins

: Marsh Harrier – Santon – 30 07 2012. Photo: Brian Liggins

: Oystercatcher family – Ramsey Harbour – 02 08 2012. Photo: Fred Hodgson

: Male Pheasant – Andreas – 05 08 2012. Photo: John Donnelly

: Juvenile Coal Tit – Andreas – 04 08 2012. Photo: John Donnelly

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Arctic Skua, Arctic Tern, Barn Owl, Barnacle Goose, Bar-tailed Godwit, Bewick's Swan, Black Guillemot, Black Swan, Blackbird, Blackcap, Black-headed Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, Black-throated Diver, Blue Tit, Brambling, Brent Goose, Bullfinch, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Chough, Coal Tit, Collared Dove, Common Crossbill, Common Gull, Common Sandpiper, Common Scoter, Coot, Cormorant, Cuckoo, Curlew, Dunlin, Dunnock, Eider, Fieldfare, Fulmar, Gadwall, Gannet, Glaucous Gull, Goldcrest, Golden Plover, Goldeneye, Goldfinch, Goosander, Great Black-backed Gull, Great Crested Grebe, Great Northern Diver, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Greenshank, Grey Heron, Grey Partridge, Grey Plover, Grey Wagtail, Greylag Goose, Guillemot, Hen Harrier, Herring Gull, Hooded Crow, Hoopoe, House Martin, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Kestrel, Kingfisher, Kittiwake, Knot, Lapwing, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Lesser Redpoll, Lesser Whitethroat, Linnet, Little Auk, Little Egret, Little Grebe, Little Gull, Little Tern, Long-tailed Duck, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Mandarin Duck, Manx Shearwater, Meadow Pipit, Merlin, Mistle Thrush, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Osprey, Oystercatcher, Peregrine, Pheasant, Pied Wagtail, Pink-footed Goose, Pintail, Pochard, Puffin, Purple Sandpiper, Raven, Razorbill, Red Grouse, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-legged Partridge, Redshank, Red-throated Diver, Redwing, Reed Bunting, Ringed Plover, Robin, Rook, Ruddy Shelduck, Sand Martin, Sanderling, Sandwich Tern, Scaup, Sedge Warbler, Shag, Shelduck, Short-eared Owl, Shoveler, Siskin, Skylark, Snipe, Snow Bunting, Song Thrush, Sparrowhawk, Starling, Stock Dove, Stonechat, Swallow, Swift, Teal, Tree Sparrow, Treecreeper, Tufted Duck, Turnstone, Twite, Water Rail, Waxwing, Wheatear, Whimbrel, Whinchat, White-fronted Goose, Whitethroat, Whooper Swan, Wigeon, Willow Warbler, Woodcock, Woodpigeon, Wren, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer,