This morning at dam end-2 Common Sandpipers,2 GBB gulls,32 GC Grebes,4 Teal,2 juvenile Kestrels,10 Pied Wags,2 Starlings,5 Blackcaps in elder bushes and maybe my last Swift of the year over mid reservoir.
West end-1 Common Snipe under Heronry,1 Common Sandpiper north shore,1 Lapwing,2 Coots,3 Teal,1 Common Tern,8 House Martins,6 Seallows,15 Egyptians.
Lay-by 1 Reed Warbler,1 Willow Warbler,6 Chiffchaffs,4 Blackcaps and a male House Sparrow in field below school,
Whillets-1 Reed Warbler,5 Greenfinch,2 Jays,1 Kestrel.
Butterfly
10 Small Copper
10 GVW
1 Painted Lady
3 Small Heath
5 Meadow Brown
3 Common Blue
90% site had a male Southern migrant hawker over meadow pond, but not 100.% as it just wouldn’t land to clinch ID.
