Pitchford Estate for a luxurious Holiday in rural Shropshire: Local Birdlife

There are many species of birds to be seen on the Pitchford Estate with its mixture of farmland and woodland. Some are present all year and there is an influx of summer migrants from Africa in the spring, when they arrive to breed. In winter species like Curlew can be seen feeding on the farmland. The following is a list of some of the birds likely to be seen, but it is not fully comprehensive and there may be several other species to be discovered by the keen ornithologist.
Barn Owl Black-headed Gull Blackbird Blackcap Blue Tit Buzzard Canada Goose Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal Tit Cuckoo Curlew Dunnock English Partridge Goldcrest Great Spotted Woodpecker	Great Tit Green Woodpecker Greenfinch Grey Heron Grey Wagtail House Sparrow Jackdaw Jay Kestrel Lapwing Little Owl Long-tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Meadow Pipit Mistle Thrush Moorhen Pheasant	Pheasant Pied Wagtail Red-legged Partridge Robin Rook Sky Lark Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Starling Stock Dove Swallow Tawny Owl Tree Creeper Willow Warbler Wood Pigeon Wren Yellowhammer