Category: Sighting

West End:- Water Rail, adult Mediterranean Gull, Raven over, Treecreeper singing and Mandarins displaying.
Dam End:- a pair of Pintail, Little Grebe, House Sparrow and 3 Skylarks over.

West End:- 1 adult Mediterranean Gull, 1 Coot, 1 Moorhen, 14 Common Gulls, 78 Black-headed Gulls.

West End:-  8 Snipe on Pintail Bank later a Great White Egret was feeding there. Also 4 Greylag, 2 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Moorhen, 3 Buzzards, 1 Kingfisher, singing Dunnock, 1 Marsh Tit, 1 Coal Tit, Goldcrest.
Whillets:- 1 Kingfisher, Goldcrest.

Whillet’s:- 1 singing Chiffchaff, 1 Water Rail swimming at Reed Bed, 1 Moorhen, 2 Mallard, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Buzzard, 1 distant Goshawk, 1 Treecreeper, 3 Bullfinch, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Toad, 3 Smooth Newts, 1 Field Vole and 1 Shrew under tins, 1 Fox, 2 Fallow Deer.
West End:- 13 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Chaffinch, 4 Mandarin, 9 Mallard, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Geese, 7 Canada Geese.
Dam End:- 1 immature Mute Swan, 2 Wigeon, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Moorhen, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Common Gull, 13 Herring Gull, 64 Black-headed Gull, 3 Buzzard, 12 Mandarin, 2 Redwing, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail.

Dam End:- Singing male House Sparrow in Horse Paddock

West End:- Sand Martin and a drake Goldeneye.

West End:- 2 Marsh Tit and a Great White Egret on Pintail Bank.

West End:- 17 nests were active within the heronry; but the white leucistic bird was not seen.  Three of the nests used by Grey Herons last year have Cormorants already sitting in them. This is very early for Cormorants which normally start nesting later.  2 Egyptian Geese were feeding on fields adjacent to the reservoir. Also 2 Buzzards, 1f Sparrowhawk tried her luck at the feeders, 1 Moorhen, 1 Coot, 1m Mandarin, 1 Snipe on Pintail Bank, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Herring Gull, Nuthatch heard.
Feeders:-  Pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers, a few Goldfinch, among the Blue and Great Tits were 1 Coal Tit, 1 Marsh Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, couple of Chaffinch and a singing Dunnock.
Whillets:- 1 Kestrel, Green Woodpecker (heard), 2 Wren. A Barn Owl was found dead in the meadows. It appears to have succumbed to the recent cold and wet weather and was very thin.

West End:- 1 Lapwing, 2 Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, 6 Gadwall, 1 Kingfisher, 126 Black-headed Gull, 1 Siskin, 26 Canada Geese, 1 Egyptian Goose.

West End:- Red Kite, 40 Lapwing (fly-over), 18 Pochard, 24 Mandarin, 4 Jay.
Whillet’s:- Squealing Water Rail.