Dam End:- 99 Canada Geese, 14 Greylag Geese, 8 Egyptian Geese, 4 Common Scoter, 1 Common Tern, 69 Black-headed Gull, 47 Pied Wagtail, 5 Common Sandpipers, 1 juvenile female Peregrine chasing gulls then landed on dam, 2 juvenile lemon Willow Warblers, 3 Chiffchaffs, 1 Coal tit, 10 Long-tailed Tit.
Month: July 2024
West End:- 2 x Mandarin Duck, 7 x Mallard, 17 x Great Crested Grebe, 1 x Stock Dove, 5 x Common Woodpigeon, 2 x Common Swift, 1 x Common Moorhen, 1 x Eurasian Coot, 2 x Black-headed Gull, 15 x Great Cormorant, 9 x Grey Heron, 1 x Common Buzzard, 2 x Common Magpie, 1 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Marsh Tit, 2 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 2 x Barn Swallow, 2 x Common Chiffchaff, 1 x Eurasian Treecreeper, 3 x Eurasian Wren, 2 x European Robin
Dam End:- male Linnet feeding on grass slope behind dam.
West End:- 2 Kingfishers, 5 Mandarins, 14 Great Crested Grebes and a Little Egret.
Dam End:- Northern Wheatear, 5 Common Sandpipers, 255 Black-headed Gulls including some nice juveniles, many Pied and 3 Grey Wagtails, pair of Common Terns, Great Black-backed Gull, 2 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Red Kite, Whimbrel, Greenshank, Swift, 3 Mute Swans, Kingfisher, Kestrel, 22 Swallows.
Whillet’s:- Sedge Warbler.
Whillet’s:- 3 Comma, 49 Gatekeeper, 7 Green-veined White, 20 Meadow Brown, 3 Peacock, 7 Ringlet, 1 Small Copper, 25 Small Skipper, 1 Speckled Wood. 2 Six-spotted Burnet, 2 Silver-Y Moths. 7 Grass Snake, 4 Beautiful Demoiselles, 1 Black-tailed Skimmer, 1 Blue-tailed Damselfly, 6 Brown Hawker, 5 Common Darter, 1 Southern Hawker, 2 White- legged Damselfly. 1 adult Sedge Warbler, 1 Sparrowhawk.
Early evening at the dam 4 Common Sandpipers,190 Black-headed Gulls, usual Great Black-backed Gull, Kingfisher and Common Terns bringing small fish to pontoon so chicks have hatched.
Among the Black-headed Gulls an individual with a pink breast and belly, an adult Yellow-legged Gull was with 27 Herring Gulls, 6 Common Sandpipers still present, 2 cronking Ravens flew over, adult Great Black-backed Gull, no terns today, a Green Sandpiper, a Lesser Whitethroat.
WeBS
All reservoir:- 41 Great Crested Grebe, 32 Cormorant, 6 Grey Heron, 42 Canada Geese, 3 Mandarin Duck, 26 Mallard, 4 Coot, 153 Black-headed Gull, 14 Swallow, 5 Pied Wagtail.
Dam End:- 8 Egyptian Geese, 2 white farmyard geese, 2 Canada x Greylag hybrid Geese, 7 Lapwing, 6 Common Sandpiper, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Common Tern, 3 Green Woodpecker, 5 House Martin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Crow, 1 Goldfinch.
West End:- 2 Mute Swan, 5 Greylag Geese, 1 Bar-headed x Barnacle hybrid Goose, 1 Moorhen, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Sand Martin, 1 Raven.
Whillet’s:- 1 … Read the rest
Dam:- 5 Common Sandpipers, 24 Pied Wagtails, 7 Lapwings,18 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 105 Black Headed Gull, 2 Common Terns, 1 Mandarin Duck, 8 Egyptian Geese, 2 Swallows, 1 House Martin,1 Kestrel and a Sparrowhawk.
West End:- 12 Greylag Goose, 4 Mandarin Duck, 13 Mallard, 16 Great Crested Grebe, 10 Common Woodpigeon, 1 Eurasian Coot, 1 Black-headed Gull, 19 Great Cormorant, 11 Grey Heron, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Common Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Eurasian Jackdaw, 2 Eurasian Blue Tit, 1 Common Reed Warbler, 1 Barn Swallow, 3 Common Chiffchaff, 2 Eurasian Wren, 1 Song Thrush, 1 European Robin