1pm – beautiful afternoon at the west end
9 greylags, 1 manadrin, 7 tufted, 6 widgeon, 6 teal, 34 pochards, 2 moorhen, 3 coots, 5 mallard, 3 GC grebe, 1 little grebe, 3 heron, 1 snipe,
2 buzzards soring, 1 sparrowhawk and 1 goshawk flyovers
Fieldfare, redwings and starlings in the trees across the hide
Longtailed, blue, great, marsh and coal tits on the feeders – as well as a great spotted, stock dove bellow feeders today, tree creepers in the carpark too
West End:- 4 x Canada Goose, 23 x Greylag Goose, 2 x Egyptian Goose, 1 x Mandarin Duck, 6 x Gadwall, 10 x Wigeon, 17 x Mallard, 8 x Teal, 30 x Pochard, 9 x Tufted Duck, 1 x Pheasant, 1 x Stock Dove, 3 x Coot, 2 x Little Grebe, 5 x Great Crested Grebe, 1 x Snipe, 5 x Black-headed Gull, 6 x Cormorant, 2 x Grey Heron, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 x Magpie, 1 x Coal Tit, 1 x Marsh Tit, 9 x Blue Tit, 2 x Great Tit, 3 x Long-tailed Tit, 1 x Wren, 1 x Nuthatch, 1 x Song Thrush, 3 x Blackbird, 2 x Fieldfare, 1 x Robin, 2 x Chaffinch, 1 x Goldfinch
West End:- 4 x Canada Goose, 17 x Greylag Goose, 1 x Mandarin Duck, 2 x Gadwall, 7 x Wigeon, 23 x Mallard, 5 x Teal, 16 x Pochard, 3 x Stock Dove, 2 x Coot, 7 x Great Crested Grebe, 14 x Cormorant, 3 x Grey Heron, 1 x Buzzard, 1 x Kingfisher, 2 x Magpie, 2 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Coal Tit, 2 x Marsh Tit, 11 x Blue Tit, 3 x Great Tit, 7 x Starling, 1 x Robin
WeirWood at dawn on a beautiful calm day started at the west end. Here 38 Pochards, 5 Teal, 9 Wigeon, Tufted Duck and 5 Gadwall. Good Mandarin numbers with 22 noted, some even displaying. On the feeders as the sun came up Great spotted Woodpecker, Long-tailed, Coal and 2 Marsh Tits. 2 Little Egrets left the roost and some 500 Wood Pigeons were noted overhead also several Stock Dove about. At Whillett’s a very active Water Rail at close quarters and an impressive 20 Long-tailed Tits in a tight flock. Back at the c/pk a nice female Goshawk passed over scaring the living daylights out of everything. Nice to see a redhead Goosander emerge for a while as time went on. A nice flock of 95 Tedwings in the trees opposite the c/pk these were joined by 12 Fieldfare, the highest count for me this winter. A Male Sparrowhawk passed through without catching a thing but scared everything. A Red Kite passed over also, landing in Admirals Wood. Oddly no grebes except a Little Grebe, all at the coast I imagine. It does seem odd though. Gulls were represented by and Black-headed and Common Gull. At the dam after a rather productive west end it was relatively quiet but an odd record of 2 Shelduck flying off north was a nice find. Also 5 Great-crested Grebes and 20 or so Black-headed Gulls. On the dam Grey Wagtail with a few Pieds. In the c/pk Goldcrest and Coal Tit rounded it off for me at 9:30hrs.
Afternoon at west end-20 Pochards, 11 Wigeon, 4 Gadwall, 2 Mandarin, 1 Teal, 5 Coots, 1 Little Grebes, 20 Greylags, 2 Egyptians & 2 Canada’s later 2 Little Egrets in to roost.
North Bank field 87 Redwings, 3 Fieldfares, 40+ Chaffinch, 20 Goldfinch, 6 Reed Buntings, 3 Yellowhammers.
Whillet’s Reed bed-87 Starlings and 26 Reed Buntings in to roost, 3 Water Rails, flock of 12 Mandarins, 22 Fieldfares ,1 Siskin & 1 Snipe over Reed bed.
Male Goshawk displaying high over reed bed doing switch backs.
In Willows 12 Long- tailed Tits, Goldcrest and Treecreeper.
West end:
2 mandarin, 2 gadwall, 9 Widgeon, 19 pochard, 3 coots, 3 gc grebes, 1 common goosander, redkite and raven flyovers, some fieldfare seen also
32 Pochards, 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Mandarin, 5 Gadwall, 10 Wigeon, 5 Coots & 1 Little Grebe
West End:- 2 x Canada Goose, 21 x Greylag Goose, 4 x Gadwall, 13 x Wigeon, 12 x Mallard, 2 x Teal, 32 x Pochard, 1 x Tufted Duck, 1 x Stock Dove, 50+ x Woodpigeon, 3 x Moorhen, 1 x Coot, 7 x Great Crested Grebe, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 1 x Great Black-backed Gull, 14 x Cormorant, 2 x Grey Heron, 1 x Sparrowhawk, 2 x Buzzard, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 x Magpie, 2 x Carrion Crow, 2 x Coal Tit, 1 x Marsh Tit, 11 x Blue Tit, 3 x Great Tit, 1 x Long-tailed Tit, 1 x Nuthatch, 5 x Starling, 1 x Redwing, 1 x Blackbird, 5 x Fieldfare, 1 x Chaffinch
White-fronted Goose flying east over the dam (potentially Russian)
Also at the east end this morning. 4 GC Grebes, 2 Egyptian Geese, 4 Canadas, 1 Greylag, 200+ Woodpigeons, 100+ BH, 7 Common, 8 Herring Gulls, 20 Linnets, 6 Siskins, 10 Redwings, 2 Fieldfares, Buzzard, Water Rail by the river near the lagoon. The 2 Avocets were still on the water near the aerator when I left..
