Dam just 5 Common Sandpipers and 2 Little ringed Plovers.
West end 2 pairs of Black headed gulls nesting,few Common Terns around us a Little Egret in Heronry.Reed Warbler and Willow warbler.
Whillets 3 Reed warblers,Bullfinch,Mistle Thrush,Green Woodpecker,Garden warbler and 3 White throats.
Butterfly’s 10 Orange Tip 2 Speckled wood,1 Peacock,Brimstone egg laying & 1 Small Copper.
1 Grass snake
Month: May 2026
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1st May 2026 seen by Alastair Gray (via WhatsApp)
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1st May 2026 seen by Linsey Gooding
Weir Wood Reservoir – Dam end:- 2 x Greylag Goose, 14 x Canada Goose, 2 x Egyptian Goose, 2 x Mandarin Duck, 3 x Mallard, 1 x Common Pheasant, 4 x Common Woodpigeon, 6 x Common Sandpiper, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 5 x European Herring Gull, 1 x Great Black-backed Gull, 3 x Common Tern, 10 x Great Crested Grebe, 2 x Great Cormorant, 1 x Grey Heron, 1 x Common Kingfisher, 3 x Common Magpie, 4 x Rook, 1 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Barn Swallow, 1 x Common Chiffchaff, 1 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Eurasian Wren, 1 x Eurasian Blackbird, 2 x European Robin, 1 x Dunnock, 1 x Grey Wagtail, 1 x Pied Wagtail
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1st May 2026 seen by James (via WhatsApp)
Lovely morning at the dam end again
6 common sands and 1 LRP on the dam
5 mandarins and 6 GCG up this end this end this morning
2 common terns
2 grey wags
House martins and swallows
Little egret flyover
