West End:- 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 5 Lapwing, 1 Teal, 1 Kingfisher, 2 young Great Crested Grebe, 1 Moorhen, 5 Common Tern, 2 Stock Dove, 6 Swallow, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail.
Whillet’s:- 1 Buzzard, 1 male Great Spotted Woodpecker (see pic), 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Jay, 43 Goldfinch feeding on thistle heads.
Also seen on a short survey check:- 5 Grass Snake (see pic), 10 Common Lizard many were this years young sun bathing on top of the black fibre refugia sheets in the meadows (see pic), 1 Slow Worm, 2 Field Vole. A male Emerald Damselfly (see pic), 7 Blue Tailed Damselflies, 1 Hornet, 1 Noon fly (see pic – these flies lay their eggs in dung and other rotting matter and are common).
Noon Fly – Mesembrina meridiana 04-08-17