Month: September 2026

West End:- 302 x Greylag Goose, 327 x Canada Goose, 2 x Mute Swan, 2 x Egyptian Goose, 1 x Mandarin Duck, 45 x Mallard, 6 x Eurasian Teal, 8 x Stock Dove, 6 x Common Woodpigeon, 6 x Common Moorhen, 3 x Eurasian Coot, 11 x Northern Lapwing, 1 x Common Snipe, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 1 x Great Black-backed Gull, 11 x Great Crested Grebe, 4 x Great Cormorant, 5 x Grey Heron, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 x Eurasian Jay, 2 x Common Magpie, 30 x Eurasian Jackdaw, 21 x Rook, 2 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Common Raven, 3 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 3 x Common Chiffchaff, 3 x Common Starling, 1 x European Robin, 1 x Grey Wagtail

West end with Linsey this morning

1 Black headed Gull,2 Buzzard,243 Canada Geese,4 Chiffchaffs,1 Clouded Yellow,7 Egyptian Geese,10 Great crested Grebes,1 Great spotted Woodpecker,13 Grey Heron,242 Greylag Geese,20 House Martins,2 House Sparrows,3 Jays,10 Lapwings,1 Little Grebe,49 Mallard,6 Moorhen,2 Mute Swan,43 Rooks flew SW,16 Meadow Pipits flew SSW,3 Swallow,1 Stonechat,2 Teal.

Whillet’s Reedbed

1 Water Rail,1 Reed Bunting,1 Reed Warbler,1 Sedge Warbler & 10 Chiffchaffs in willows plus 3 Chaffinch a Nuthatch and some Long tailed Tits,4 Buzzards.

Butterfly survey

1 Brown Hairstreak
2 Clouded Yellow
1 Comma
10 Common Blue
6 GVW
1 Peacock
21 Small Copper
1 Small Heath
6 Speckled Woods

25 Common Darters
2 Southern Hawker
12 Migrant Hawker
12 Willow Damselfly’s

West End:- 242 x Greylag Goose, 238 x Canada Goose, 2 x Mute Swan, 6 x Egyptian Goose, 49 x Mallard, 2 x Eurasian Teal, 2 x Common Pheasant, 2 x Stock Dove, 4 x Common Woodpigeon, 5 x Common Moorhen, 10 x Northern Lapwing, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 1 x Little Grebe, 11 x Great Crested Grebe, 4 x Great Cormorant, 13 x Grey Heron, 2 x Common Buzzard, 3 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 x Eurasian Jay, 1 x Common Magpie, 18 x Eurasian Jackdaw, 43 x Rook, 3 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 3 x Barn Swallow, 5 x Meadow Pipit

West end this afternoon,2 Hobbies together,Red Kite,Raven & Buzzard.
1 Snipe,1 Common Sandpiper & 1 Lapwing, single Little Grebe was asleep drifting around.
201 Canada Geese & 167 Greylags, flock of Starlings W and a Collard Dove over.
2 Tufties noted

Dam end
Very busy, still GBB Gull,1 Herring Gull,6 Black Headed Gull,9 Egyptians,4 Swallow,10 House Martins and 10 Starlings W.

WeirWood at the west end midday was fairly quiet with 11 Lapwings, 4 Tufted Ducks and 4 Mandarins. A highlight was a female Goshawk over Pintail bank. 2 Greenshank were on the canoeist beach but that was about it other than 100’s of geese, 2 Teal and a Common Sandpiper.

At Whillett’s 2 Sedge Warblers, Reed Warbler, 3 Greenfinches and a male Reed Bunting.

West End:- 89 x Greylag Goose, 2 x Canada Goose, 2 x Mute Swan, 4 x Egyptian Goose, 24 x Mallard, 4 x Eurasian Teal, 3 x Tufted Duck, 1 x Stock Dove, 4 x Common Woodpigeon, 3 x Common Moorhen, 1 x Eurasian Coot, 11 x Northern Lapwing, 1 x Common Snipe, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 2 x Little Grebe, 7 x Great Crested Grebe, 25 x Great Cormorant, 10 x Grey Heron, 2 x Eurasian Goshawk, 1 x Common Magpie, 4 x Eurasian Jackdaw, 4 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Eurasian Nuthatch, 1 x Eurasian Wren, 3 x European Robin, 1 x Grey Wagtail

Afternoon visit to West End – 6 Tufted Duck, 5 Teal, 7 Moorhen, 3 Coot, pair of Mandarin, 1 Little Grebe, 9 Grey heron, 2 Mute Swan, 8 Lapwing, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Buzzard, Mallard GCGrebe Cormorant & Greylag seen but no counts

West End beach by Sand Martin box 8 x Lapwing – 12 x Mallard – 2 x Little Grebe under heronry – zero geese – 8 Grey Heron, one more Lapwing, 1 x Manadrin, 5 x G C Grebe – 3 Coots, 14 Cormorant, 1 Crow

Dam End – 8 x Egyptian Geese, 1 xxGBB Gull, 2 x H Gull, 60 + BH Gull – numerous Pied Wagtails & too much wind for my scope

East End – Yellow Wagtail with horses in paddock behind dam, ad m Goshawk over n bank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 31 GC Grebes, party of 150+ House Martins, 20 Swallows, 2 GBB, 16 Herring, 75 BH Gulls, 9 Egyptian Geese, 43 Canadas, Grey Wagtail, 12 Pied Wagtails, Treecreeper, Jay, 4 Chiffchaffs.