Category: Sighting

West End:- Male Red-footed Falcon flew in low from the south upsetting the Terns then flew North.

Dam End:- 1 Male Yellow Wagtail on Dam, 2 Common Sandpiper, 30 Swifts.

Dam End:- 1 Dunlin in summer plumage on Dam, 2 Common Sandpipers, 18 Swifts, Mandarin with 8 young, 3 Starlings, 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Swallows, 4 Whitethroats, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 male Reed Bunting, 2 Grey Wagtails + 1 juvenile, 5 Pied Wagtails, 6 Tufted Duck flying around.
Lagoon:- 2 Little Grebes with 3 young.
West End:- 10 Common Terns.
Whillets:- 1 male Yellowhammer, 9 Whitethroat.

Dam End:- Female Wheatear on Dam, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Swifts.

West End:- 10 Common Terns.
Dam End:- 2 Common Terns flew East at 06:50, 2 Common Sandpiper on Dam, 1 Lapwing mobbing a female Sparrowhawk over the Reservoir, 2 Tufted Duck flew East, 4 Pied Wagtails, 1 Swift, 1 Kingfisher.

Whilst checking the large nest boxes a Tawny Owl chick was ringed.
Other sightings of note:- 5 Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff, 5+ Reed Warblers, Reed Bunting, Buzzard, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreepers, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Marsh Tit, 2 Swallows, House Martin, 3 Mandarin Duck, 2 Field Voles and an Orange Tip Butterfly.

West End:- 2 Common Sandpipers.
Dam End:- 2 Whimbrel landed briefly on Dam at 06:50 then flew East at 07:10. 1 Common Sandpiper, 11 Swifts, 10 House Martins, 5 Swallows, 3 Common Terns, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1 Starling flew North, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Whitethroats, 1 Grey Wagtail.
North Bank:- Canada Goose with 5 Young.

Dam End:- Very windy early morning 5 small unidentifiable waders flying low over the water, 8 Swifts, 148 Herring Gulls and 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls flew SW, 1 Mandarin, 1 Kingfisher.
West End:- 2 Common Sandpiper.

Dam End:- 1 Whimbrel flew E at 07:15, 2 Common Sandpipers and 1 Little Ringed Plover on Dam. Lapwing flew W, 6 Tufted Duck flew E, 2 Gadwall flying around, 8 Mandarin, 5 Swift, 5 House Martins, 10 Swallows, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Mistle Thrush, 4 Common Terns.
West End:- 1 Garden Warbler, 1m Reed Bunting.