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Wat Tyler Country Park
Pitsea Hall Lane
Pitsea
Basildon
Essex
SS16 4UH

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The Wat Tyler Project is transforming the Park, with its legacy of historic buildings and fascinating wildlife, into a centre of excellence and regional destination of choice for over 350,000 visitors each year, where people and families can relax, play and learn.

Bird sightings at the Park

Wat Tyler Country Park is recognised as one of the best bird watching sites in Essex. As the seasons change we get many passing visitors adding to our regular residents.

Here are all the birds listed on our sightings board for February and March 2008:

Avocet
Bar Tailed Godwit
Barn Owl
Bearded Tit
Black Headed Gull
Black Tailed Godwit
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Bull Finch
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Cetti’s Warbler
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Collard Dove
Common Sandpiper
Coot
Cormorant
Curlew
Dunnock
Gadwell
Goldfinch
Great Black Backed Gull

Great Crested Greebe
Great Tit
Green Sandpiper
Green Shawk
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Grem Lag Goose
Grey Heron
Herring Gull
Jay
Kestral
Kingfisher
Lapwing
Lesser Black Backed Gull
Little Egret
Little Greebe
Long Tail Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Marsh Harrier
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Oyster Catcher

Pereerine
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Pochard
Red Shank
Reed Bunting
Robin
Ruddy Duck
Ruff
Shelduck
Shoveler
Snipe
Sparrow Hawk
Spotted Redshank
Starling
Stonechat
Toal
Tufted Duck
Water Rail
White Front Goose
Wigeon
Wood Pigeon

Posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 and is filed under Wildlife.

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