WeBS Results
All Reservoir:- 83 Great Crested Grebe (Including 8 young), 20 Cormorant, 6 Grey Heron, 50 Greylag Geese, 230 Canada Geese, 19 Mallard, 5 Moorhen, 3 Coot, 12 Lapwing.
Dam End:- 2 Grey Wagtail, 10 Pied Wagtail, 4 Common Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone (found injured), 263 Black-headed Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 1 juv Common Tern, 1 Swift, 1 Green Woodpecker, 15 Sand Martin, 5+ Swallow, 8+ House Martin, Chiffchaff, 5 Jackdaw, 17 Rooks, 2+ Crow, 5 Goldfinch.
West End:- 3 Mandarin, 3 Buzzard, 1 Osprey (seen at 13:10 – it took a fish in front of heronry), 1 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher.
Whillet’s:- 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Green Woodpecker. Also of interest was a female Emerald Damselfly and Brown Hawker Dragonfly egg laying at Meadow Pond, Small Tortoiseshell butterfly.
[See “Photos” for pictures of Osprey.]