Author: Linsey Gooding

East End – Whimbrel on the dam, 3 LRPs, 3 Common Sandpipers, small numbers of Swallows and House Martins, 2 Common Terns on the aerator, 6 GCGs, Garden Warblers, Whitethroats and Blackcaps behind the dam, Mistle Thrush, Bullfinch, Sparrowhawk, Grey Wagtails.

Weir Wood Reservoir – Willets:- 5 x Common Pheasant, 4 x Common Woodpigeon, 12 x Great Cormorant, 9 x Grey Heron, 3 x Common Buzzard, 2 x Common Magpie, 1 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 2 x Great Tit, 1 x Eurasian Skylark, 1 x Common Reed Warbler, 1 x Barn Swallow, 1 x Willow Warbler, 2 x Common Chiffchaff, 1 x Long-tailed Tit, 4 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Garden Warbler, 2 x Common Whitethroat, 1 x Mistle Thrush, 1 x Song Thrush, 1 x Eurasian Blackbird, 2 x European Robin, 1 x European Goldfinch

West End:- 4 x Greylag Goose, 5 x Canada Goose, 4 x Egyptian Goose, 7 x Mandarin Duck, 4 x Mallard, 1 x Common Pheasant, 6 x Stock Dove, 4 x Common Woodpigeon, 4 x Black-headed Gull, 3 x Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 x Common Tern, 8 x Great Crested Grebe, 22 x Great Cormorant, 2 x Little Egret, 23 x Grey Heron, 2 x Common Buzzard, 1 x Common Kingfisher, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 x Eurasian Green Woodpecker, 3 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 3 x Great Tit, 2 x Common Reed Warbler, 6 x Common Chiffchaff, 2 x Eurasian Blackcap, 4 x Garden Warbler, 1 x Goldcrest, 1 x Eurasian Nuthatch, 2 x Eurasian Wren, 1 x Song Thrush, 2 x Eurasian Blackbird, 1 x European Robin, 2 x Dunnock

Dam end-2 Shelducks till 07:15 then flew high SE,Little Egret E over dam.
6 Common Terns,Common Sandpiper,2 LRP,10 Herring Gulls,2 Black Headed gulls.
Mistle thrush on grass slope behind dam.5 Swallows.

West end-6 Common Terns,Pochard,Willow warbler,Kingfisher,2 GBB gulls,3 Mandarin.

WeirWood was visited briefly and well worth the stop with a high White Stork over headed NE. presumably one of the introduced birds. Other birds inc’ Common Terns, 3 of which were on show, also the Black-headed Gulls were still in situ. Willow Warbler was noted as were Blackcaps, and a Garden Warbler. Then I had to leave, it does make you wonder what turns up when you’re absent.

Weir Wood Reservoir – Below the Dam:- 3 x Common Woodpigeon, 1 x Grey Heron, 2 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Garden Warbler, 3 x Common Whitethroat, 1 x Eurasian Wren, 2 x Eurasian Blackbird, 1 x European Robin, 2 x Dunnock, 2 x Grey Wagtail, 3 x Pied Wagtail

Weir Wood Reservoir – Dam end:- 2 x Greylag Goose, 2 x Barnacle Goose, 5 x Canada Goose, 12 x Egyptian Goose, 2 x Mallard, 1 x Common Pochard, 1 x Common Pheasant, 2 x Common Woodpigeon, 2 x Common Sandpiper, 2 x European Herring Gull, 2 x Common Tern, 6 x Great Crested Grebe, 2 x Great Cormorant, 1 x Little Egret, 2 x Grey Heron, 6 x Common Buzzard, 1 x Eurasian Green Woodpecker, 2 x Common Magpie, 4 x Rook, 3 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 2 x Great Tit, 8 x Barn Swallow, 5 x Western House Martin, 2 x Common Chiffchaff, 2 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Mistle Thrush, 1 x Eurasian Blackbird, 2 x European Robin, 4 x Pied Wagtail

Afternoon at the dam,5 Common Sandpipers,2 LRP,3 Common Tern,6 Herring gulls,Red Kite & 2 Swallows.
West end,singing Willow Warbler still,1 GBB Gull,4 Black head gulls on rafts, 1 Swallow,17 GCG.
Whillets,3 Mistle Thrush,Song Thrush & 2 Reed Warblers.
Butterfly’s-6 Orange Tips,3 Green veined Whites,2 Peacocks,2 Speckled Woods & 1 Brimstone.
1 Downy Emerald Dragonfly.

Very quiet this afternoon but encouraging to see the pair of LRP mating several times on the dam,just one Com Sandpiper.
2 House Martin,1 Swallow & 5 pied Wags was it.
Good news all the vehicle s/Diggers and fences now cleared from top of dam.
West end, Willow warbler still singing between hide and first lay-by,2 LBb gulls & 2 BH gulls on rafts.