Four species of crows are regular garden visitors throughout the year, but it has to be said that they are not always universally popular!

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing number of sightings of water big water birds in the parish, many of them white, both in numbers and variety of species. Most of these new

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A colourful group of small birds, most of which regularly visit garden feeders, particularly in winter. If you get a good view you can usually identify them though some of the females can look similar

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Some species of gulls are just as much at home inland as they are on the coast, so throughout the year gulls may be seen around the village and in some gardens. The two species

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Although from different families, these can look similar if you don’t always get a good view of them. Sparrows and Dunnocks are very common visitors all year whereas the Reed Bunting is an unusual winter

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There are three very familiar visitors to gardens, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove and Feral Pigeon, all distinctive as the pictures show.

Or perhaps better known as birds of prey, all eat other creatures to survive, be it birds, mammals or insects, there is no such thing as a vegetarian raptor! Sparrowhawk is the species you are

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We have 2 regular resident species of thrush that can be seen in gardens, Blackbird and Song Thrush while in winter they can sometimes be visited by ‘invaders’ from the north, Fieldfare and Redwing. Very

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There are 4 types of tits that are regularly reported in gardens, with Blue and Great Tits being the most common, all these species can be seen all year.

During the winter when the Henfield Levels are in flood, many ducks and geese take advantage of the opportunity of a new habitat suddenly available to them. Many of the ducks migrate down from the

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There are 2 Woodpeckers that might visit your garden, both very striking and both very different from each other.