Habitat

A species rich area with damp and dry meadows, scrub, river, ponds and a lake, hedgerows and mature trees. The scrub area to the southeast of Broadcloth Lane East is very attractive to birds including Goldfinch (teasel seeds are a favourite food) and any thoughts of tidying should be resisted, although the bushes will become invasive unless controlled.

Recorded during surveys for British Bird Atlas 2007/11
(actual 2007/8):

Blackbird	Great Tit	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Rook
Blackcap	Green Woodpecker	Long-tailed Tit	Sand Martin
Black-headed Gull	Greenfinch	Magpie	Sedge Warbler
Blue Tit	Grey Heron	Mallard	Song Thrush
Buzzard	Grey Wagtail	Meadow Pipit	Starling
Carrion Crow	Herring Gull	Moorhen	Stonechat
Chaffinch	House Martin	Mute Swan	Swallow
Chiffchaff	House Sparrow	Pheasant	Swift
Coal Tit	Jackdaw	Redwing	Whitethroat
Dunnock	Kestrel	Reed Bunting	Woodpigeon
Fieldfare	Kingfisher	Reed Warbler	Wren
Goldfinch	Linnet	Robin

Other casual record:

 

John Austin September 2010
(ex chairman Wiltshire Ornithological Society)

Bird Walk 20th February 2011

John kindly led a bird spotting walk around Biss Meadows. You can read about it here. See below for the list of 23 bird species spotted. Can you spot what new species were seen?

Blackbird	Great-spotted Woodpecker	Mallard	Song Thrush (2)
Black-headed Gull	Great Tit	Moorhen	Starling
Blue Tit	Greenfinch	Mute Swans	Waxwing (c40)
Chaffinch	Jackdaw	Reed Bunting (pair)	Wren
Dunnock	Long-tailed Tit	Robin	Woodpigeon
Goldfinch	Magpie	Rook

Bird Walk 26th February 2012

David Culverhouse kindly led our 2012 bird spotting walk around Biss Meadows. You can read about it here. See below for the list of 23 bird species spotted. Can you spot what new species were seen?

Blackbird	Dunnock	Long-tailed Tit	Reed Bunting (pair)
Blue Tit	Goldfinch	Magpie	Robin
Buzzard	Green Woodpecker	Mallard	Sparrow
Chaffinch	Great Tit	Moorhen	Wren
Collar Dove	Herring Gull	Mute Swans	Woodpigeon
Common Crow	Jackdaw	Redwing

Birds at Risk

A RSPB report Revealed: the nation's top 40 most in need of help [October 2010] has identified the over 40 birds at risk within 3 categories. See the list here, marked with the ones we have seen at Biss Meadows.