Category: Sighting

West End:- 1 Little Grebe, 3 Coot, 18 Mallard, 1 Buzzard.

Dam End:- 2 Goldeneye, a male and female, flew in over the dam and continued to the west end.
West End:- Water Rail near the hide.

West End:-  6 Gadwall, 6 Coot, 1 Little Grebe.

Dam End:- 3 Red Kites, a male Peregrine, 2 Ravens and 14 Jays in a loose gathering,
West End:- Marsh Tits and 2 Goldcrests.

6 Siskins, 10 Redpolls, Redwings and Fieldfares, 3 Kingfishers, 3 Little Grebes.
West End:- 3 Marsh Tits, Tufted Duck flock, 2 Ravens over.

West End:- 2 Mute Swan.
Whillet’s:- 1 Peregrine flyover, 1 Water Rail, Tawny Owl and Green Woodpecker heard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Redwing, 3000+ Starling flying into reed-bed to roost. (True number would be higher – late afternoon we watched wave after wave of Starlings flying in; we just estimated and noted the size of the bigger flocks.)

The following recovery for a Kingfisher has been received from the BTO:-
A juvenile Kingfisher ringed on the morning of 12th August 2021 in Whillet’s meadows has been found (dead) on 27th November; some 107 days later in Wexford, Ireland ~ a distance of 482km.
An incredible journey for a Kingfisher.

West End:- 20 Tufted Duck, 4 Gadwall, 3 Little Grebe.
Dam End:- 9 Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff in car park.

Whillet’s:-  1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Chaffinch and 1 Fox.
West End:-  2 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Geese, 4 Greylag, 2 Coot, 1 Moorhen, 14 Mallard, 1 Raven and 1 Stock Dove flew over,  4 Great Crested Grebe, 23 Cormorant, 16 Black-headed Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Redwing, 2 Crow, 30 Jackdaw flyover.
Feeders:-  1 Marsh Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 10 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, Nuthatch heard, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Goldfinch.

Whillet’s:- 5,325 Starlings and 63 Reed Buntings into roost this evening.
2 Water Rails heard,4 Chaffinch,3 Bullfinch,1 Tufted Duck,15 Redwings and Sparrowhawk flew over.