The following are the reported sighting on BirdGuides during the 2023 season, then placed onto Google Maps.
MARCH
161 SIGHTINGS
APRIL
313 SIGHTINGS
MAY
265 SIGHTINGS
JUNE
139 SIGHTINGS
JULY
133 SIGHTINGS
AUGUST
334 SIGHTINGS
SEPTEMBER
381 SIGHTINGS
OCTOBER
179 SIGHTINGS
NOVEMBER
36 SIGHTINGS
REPORTED SIGHTINGS BY COUNTY 01/03/2023 – 24/11/2023
Note, these figures will contain multiple sightings of the same Bird.
| ENGLAND |
| Bedfordshire 12 Berkshire 3 Bristol (see Below) — Buckinghamshire 15 Cambridgeshire 53 Cheshire 36 Cornwall 100 County Durham 13 Cumbria 18 Derbyshire 43 Devon 89 Dorset 57 East Riding of Yorkshire 54 East Sussex 95 Essex 75 Gloucestershire 63 Greater London 17 Greater Manchester 12 Hampshire 110 Herefordshire 5 Hertfordshire 56 Isle of Wight — Kent 60 Lancashire 97 Leicestershire 18 Lincolnshire 66 Merseyside — Norfolk 85 North Yorkshire 51 Northamptonshire 55 Northumberland 64 Nottinghamshire 27 Oxfordshire 11 Rutland (see Above) — Shropshire 23 Somerset and Bristol 55 South Gloucestershire 63 South Yorkshire 29 Staffordshire 48 Suffolk 70 Surrey 9 Tyne & Wear — Warwickshire 28 West Midlands 7 West Sussex 64 West Yorkshire 30 Wiltshire 12 Worcestershire 14 |
| TOTAL 1885 |
| SCOTLAND |
| Aberdeenshire – Angus 1 Argyll & Bute Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Borders 7 Caithness Clackmannanshire Dumfries & Galloway 2 Dunbartonshire East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Fife 10 Highland 4 Inverclyde Kincardineshire Lanarkshire Midlothian Moray and Nairn 5 North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney 8 Perth & Kinross Renfrewshire Shetland 40 South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirlingshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian Western Isles TOTAL 103 |
| OSPREY ARE CONSIDERED COMMON IN MAINLAND SCOTLAND AND NOT REPORTED ON BIRDGUIDES. The figures are not a true reflection of the Scottish population. |
| WALES |
| Blaenau Gwent 12 Bridgend – Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire 24 Ceredigion 1 Conwy 11 Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd 10 Isle of Anglesey 12 Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire 12 Powys 4 Rhondda Cynon Taff Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan 16 Wrexham |
| TOTAL 105 |
| NORTHERN IRELAND |
| Antrim 15 Armagh 2 Down 2 Fermanagh 2 Londonderry 25 Tyrone – |
| TOTAL 46 |
| SOUTHERN IRELAND |
| Clare 2 Cork 23 Donegal 5 Dublin 10 Galway 1 Kerry 4 Leitrim 1 Louth 12 Waterford 2 Wicklow 17 |
| TOTAL 80 |
| COMBINED TOTAL OF REPORTED SIGHTINGS 2227 |
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