Month: May 2019

DAM END:  2 Mute Swans.  WHILLET’S: 1 White Legged Damselfly, 2 Small Copper, 1M Common Blue, 1 Mother Shipton Moth.

WEST END: 2 Red Kite, 1 Hobby, 1 Lapwing, 1 Pied Wagtail with fledged young, Mallard with 1 large duckling, 3 Swallow, 2 Treecreeper. WHILLET’S: 3 White Legged Damselfly, 1 Emperor Dragonfly.

DAM END: 2 Hobby seen hawking around the South side.

WEST END:  38 Cormorant (13 nests now have young), 24 GC Grebe, 2 Egyptian Goose, pair of Mandarin, 11 Mallard, many young Grey Heron have now fledged, 8 pairs of Common Tern nesting on rafts, 2 Stock Dove.  WHILLET’S:  Pair of Reed Bunting, several White legged damselfy seen, also Large Red & Azure damselflies. 1M Broad bodied chaser dragonfly.

West End:- 2 Red Kites, 1 Hobby, 1 Lapwing, Pied Wagtail with fledged young, Mallard with one large duckling, 3 Swallow, 2 Treecreepers.
Whillet’s:- 3 White-legged Damselfly, 1 Emperor Dragonfly.

NORTH BANK: 1 Honey Buzzard over NW Ashdown area, 1 Red Kite, 6 Common Buzzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 1 Common Whitethroat, 5 BH Gull, 2 Swallow.   DAM END: 2 Swift, 2 Egyptian Geese, 11 Greylag, 12 Canada Geese.   WEST END: 8 pairs of Common Terns nesting on rafts.   WHILLET’S: transect count butterflies – 1 Brown Argus (new spcies for site, see photo), 1  Common Blue, 2 Small Copper, moths – 1 Mother Shipton, 1 Silver Y, 3 Burnet Companion. also a Beautiful Demoiselle damselfly was seen.

DAM END: 1 Honey Buzzard flyover, 1 Hobby, 16 Swift with House Martins & Swallows, 5 Common Sandpipers dotted around. WEST END: 20 Common Terns seen around Ternery area.

Whillet’s:-  1 Hobby flew over, 1 Buzzard, Yellowhammer heard (song coming from vineyard farmland), 1m Reed Bunting seen, plus Bullfinch, Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff & Blackcap all heard within meadows. 1 Small Copper butterfly.

Dam End:- 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Swift, 2 Swallows, 1 Mute Swan.
North Bank:- 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Coot.
West End:- 2 Lapwing, 1m Mandarin, 3 Buzzards.

Hobby hawking again this p.m. between the picnic site and the dam wall. 4 Mandarin flew out from North Bank.