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Sighting
West End:- 5 x Greylag Goose, 17 x Canada Goose, 5 x Egyptian Goose, 9 x Mandarin Duck, 9 x Mallard, 1 x Common Pheasant, 2 x Stock Dove, 3 x Common Woodpigeon, 1 x Common Moorhen, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 8 x Great Crested Grebe, 29 x Great Cormorant, 35 x Grey Heron, 1 x Common Kingfisher, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 x Common Magpie, 1 x Marsh Tit, 5 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 3 x Great Tit, 2 x Common Chiffchaff, 2 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Common Whitethroat, 2 x Eurasian Wren, 1 x Song Thrush, … Read the rest
Dam End (30mins this afternoon) :- just 1 Black headed Gull west, 5 Swallows, 1 House Martin and female Grey Wagtail on dam.
West end :- 2 immature Mute Swans, 3 Teal, 2 Mandarins, 2 Great black backed gulls, 4 Stock doves, 1 Swallow and at 16:35 a smallish white Tern flew into view did 2 circuits then flew off west, lovely Arctic Tern.
Dam End (windy and cold) :- 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Tern, 2 Mute Swan, Red Kite, 2 House Martin, 10 swallow, Willow Warbler at north end of dam, Garden Warbler at Millennium Picnic site, 2 Whitethroat, Early Purple Orchid, Common Twayblade.
Common Tern seen by the working party at Weir Wood this pm
Whillets: Reed warbler heard singing.
West End:- 9 x Canada Goose, 3 x Egyptian Goose, 6 x Mandarin Duck, 2 x Mallard, 3 x Stock Dove, 5 x Common Woodpigeon, 1 x Common Moorhen, 6 x Great Crested Grebe, 37 x Great Cormorant, 34 x Grey Heron, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 x Common Magpie, 1 x Coal Tit, 1 x Marsh Tit, 4 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 2 x Great Tit, 2 x Barn Swallow, 2 x Common Chiffchaff, 1 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Eurasian Wren, 2 x European Robin, 1 x Dunnock, 1 x Common Chaffinch, 2 x European Goldfinch
Dam end and north bank footpath as far as picnic site. 2 Common Sands, 3 Swallows, 5 Sand Martins, 1 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel, 2 Green Woodpecker, 5 singing Whitethroat, 2 Mandarin, female Mallard with 8 very young ducklings, Speckled Wood, Comma, Orange Tip, Early Purple Orchid in flower.
All reservoir counts: 21 GC Grebe, 13 Mallard, 4 Buzzard, 3 LBB Gull, 5 Stock Dove, 3 Pied Wagtail, Chiffchaff & Blackcap song was numerous everywhere, Nuthatch & Song Thrush also heard.
Dam End: 4 Greylag, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 White feral Farmyard Geese, 1 Mandarin Duck, 3 Herring Gull, 1 Common Whitethroat, 6 Jay, 30 nests at Rookery, 3 Crow.
West End: 35 Cormorant & 38 Heron at heronry, 18 Canada Geese, 6 Mandarin Duck, 1 Teal, pair of Tufted Duck, 1 Red Kite, Up to 4 Common Sandpiper were on a raft, 4 Med Gulls flew … Read the rest
Dam End:- 2 Wheatear – m briefly outside the new cafe flew towards car park and I lost him. F in the horse paddock behind the dam. V quiet. 1 Red Kite, 2 LBB Gull, 1 GBB Gull, f Grey Wagtail, 3 GC Grebe, no waders on the dam, no hirundines and no Osprey.
West End (late afternoon):- 2 Teal, 6 Mandarin, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Egyptian Goose, 3 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 Swallow, 2 Blackcap (m&f) in car park.