This list has been compiled by my friends who are expert lifelong bird watching enthusiasts and lists all the birds they have seen at Gamekeeper’s and its garden. Their advice is to be familiar with bird songs as they locate many birds at the cottage from first recognising their calls.
Yellow hammer
Sparrow
Gold Finch
Green finch
Bull finch
Chaffinch
Robin
Coal tit
Long tailed tit
Blue tit
Great tit
Wren
Hedge sparrow
Buzzard
Kestrel
Pheasant
Red-legged partridge
Goldcrest *
Marsh Tit *
Barn Owl
Black bird
Song thrush
Mistle thrush
White throat
Lesser white throat (spring)
Black cap (spring)
Garden warbler (spring)
Nut hatch
Wagtail
Greater spotted woodpecker
Green woodpecker
Magpie
Jackdaw
Jay
Rook
Crow
Nightingale (rare)
Linnet
Tree Creeper *
Stock Dove *
Winter possibilities: Red wing Fieldfare
Rare: Kite overflying
Other Wildlife
Fallow deer (many white)…sometimes come on lawn
In the wood: Hares, woodcock, snipe, owls
Butterflies: Holly blue
Tortoiseshell
Comma
Common whites
Peacock
Admiral…red and white
Orange Tip *
Moths: Many for the enthusiast with right night equipment
