Month: May 2025

Dam End:- Still 4+ Hobbies, 12 Common Tern, 14 Swifts, 2 Common Terns, 1 Little Ringed Plover.
West end:- 3 Little Egrets (2 still on nest).

Dam end :-14 x Canada Goose, 7 x Egyptian Goose, 5 x Mandarin Duck, 3 x Mallard, 12 x Common Swift, 1 x Little Ringed Plover, 2 x Common Sandpiper, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 2 x European Herring Gull, 8 x Common Tern, 3 x Great Crested Grebe, 2 x Great Cormorant, 1 x Grey Heron, 1 x Common Buzzard, 5 x Eurasian Hobby, 3 x Eurasian Jackdaw, 1 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Common Raven, 1 x Barn Swallow, 2 x Western House Martin, 4 x Common Chiffchaff, 3 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Eurasian Wren, 2 x Common Starling, 1 x European Robin, 2 x Pied Wagtail

West End:- 9 x Canada Goose, 1 x Mandarin Duck, 8 x Mallard, 1 x Eurasian Coot, 2 x Black-headed Gull, 1 x European Herring Gull, 5 x Common Tern, 5 x Great Crested Grebe, 31 x Great Cormorant, 24 x Grey Heron, 1 x Common Kingfisher, 1 x Common Magpie, 2 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Great Tit, 1 x Barn Swallow, 1 x Common Chiffchaff, 3 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Eurasian Wren, 2 x Eurasian Blackbird, 1 x European Robin

Dam End:- 19 Common Terns and 11 Hobbies hawking insects on north shoreline,2 Com Sands, 1 Whimbrel on dam. 3 Garden Warblers singing along NorthBank, plus Green woodpecker.

West End:- 3 Little Egrets in the heronry. 2 seem to be in empty herons nest 🤞

Dam End:- 2 x drake Common Scooter, 2 x Hobby, Red Kite, 11 Egyptians (9 Goslings), 2 Little ringed Plovers and 2 Com Sands on dam ,4 Common Terns, Grey Wagtail ,Great Black Backed gull, 3 Swifts, 5 Swallows and 2 House Martins all in a cold NE breeze. Plenty of common Warblers still singing.

Dam End:- WeirWood was beautiful and calm at 6:00hrs and today started off with 2 female Common Scoters from the dam. The pair of Common Terns were still on the aerator and 2 Common Sands were still in situ. Several Mandarins were scattered around. Over the dam a dozen House Martins and 3 Swifts were feeding. A pair of Grey Wagtails briefly joined 16 Pied Wagtails on the dam plus a Linnet male. At 6:20hrs the Common Scoter flew off north. In all 6 Common Terns were noted from the dam. A Great Egret flew south, continuing around Admirals Wood, a smart adult and presumably the bird seen recently. In the c/pk a Garden Warbler again and below the dam in the bushes a Whitethroat plus another Garden Warbler, Buzzard and 2 Green Woodpeckers.

West End:- 2 Kingfishers were noted plus a pair of the Common Terns were on one of the nesting rafts but generally it was quiet. No sign of the Great Egret.

Whilletts:- the Reed Warbler was still present plus Reed Bunting female and another Garden Warbler. I left at 7:30hrs.

Dam End:- WeirWood early afternoon, a pair of Common Terns were on the aerator, with 3 more out on the buoys, 3 Hobbies were around the north bank and over the dam plus Little-ringed Plover and 2 Common Sands on the dam. A Garden Warbler was singing on the trees by the viewpoint. Several House Martins were about plus a few Barn Swallows and 3 Swifts. Best bird today was the male Goshawk seen from the dam end as it made its way along the south bank. Below the dam in the bushes a minimum of 3 Whitethroats noted plus Green and Great spotted Woodpeckers.

West End:- relatively quiet with just a pair of Common Terns investigating the rafts, 5 male Mandarins and 2 Black-headed Gulls also on one of the rafts.

Whilletts:- still had Reed Warbler to offer but little else.

Dam End (PM):- 2 Hobbies N, 2 Swifts, 8 Swallows, 7 Common Terns, 1 Black headed gull, 20 Herring gull, 1 Lesser Black Backed gull, 2 Mandarins, 1 Little ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpipers, 26 Canada Geese, 7 Great Crested grebes,1 Green Woodpecker.
Whillets:- 3+ Garden Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 4 Whitethroats, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Blackcap, 1 Green Woodpecker.
Others:- 1 male Broad-bodied chaser, 2 Peacock, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Speckled Wood, 4 Orange Tip, 4 GV whites, 1 Brimstone.