Month: May 2017

Dam End:- 8 Common Sandpipers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 10 Common Terns, 200 Swallows, 50 House Martins.
West End:- 1 Tufted Duck, 2 Cormorants still on nests.

So far 98 Bird Species have been recorded around the Reservoir in 2017.

Whillet’s Meadows:- Reptiles: 5 Grass Snakes (photo), 4 Common Lizards, 1 Toad. Butterflies : 3 Peacock, 1 Comma, 1 Red Admiral. Birds: 1 Kestrel, 1 Reed Bunting, singing Reed Warblers, Garden Warblers and Whitethroats.

Seen during our Work Party activities.

Photos by Richard Lowe.

Dam End:- 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Common Sandpipers and 1 Dunlin.

Dam End:- 4 Common Sandpipers, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Mistle Thrush, 2 Coots, 7 Chiffchaffs, 4 Garden Warblers, 6 Whitethroats, 6 Bullfinch, 4 Blackcap, 2 Reed Buntings, 1m Tufted Duck, 1 House Martin.
Osprey headed North over Dam (09:30) and Red Kite over Admirals Wood.

West End:- 2 Common Terns briefly at West End flew back towards the Dam End at 16.15hrs.

West End:- 2 Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Hobbies, 8 adult Mediterranean Gull, 33 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 363 Herring Gulls, 1 Swallow, 3 Mandarin.

West End:- 2 Egyptian Geese.
Dam End:- 3 Common Sandpipers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Common Terns, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 8 Swallows, 2 Reed Buntings, 2 Mistle Thrushes, 2 Garden Warblers, 5 Whitethroats, 1 Blackcap, 2 Coots, 2 Grey Wagtails, 5 Bullfinch.