Category: Sighting

Dam End:- 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 summer plumage Dunlin, 1 summer plumage Sanderling, 1 Greenshank.

West End:- 2 Little Egrets.
North Bank:- 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Female Mandarin with 5 and 7 young, 6 adult Canada Geese with 18 young.

Whillet’s Meadows:- 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker heard, Great Spotted Woodpecker has a nest with young, 1 Grey Wagtail flyover, Lesser Whitethroat heard, 2 Garden Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Reed Warbler, Song Thrush heard, 2 Bullfinch, Yellowhammer heard, 2m Reed Bunting.
Butterflies & Moths:- 1m Orange Tip, 2 Peacock, 2 Small Tortoiseshell Caterpillars, 6m Common Blue, 2 Green-veined White, 1 Holly Blue, 3 Burnet Companion, 1 Cinnabar, 1 Common Carpet, 1 Mother Shipton. Also Capsid Bug  Leptopterna dolabrata.
Dragonflies:- 1 Hairy Dragonfly, 1m+1f Broad-bodied Chaser, 2 pairs of Large Red Damselfly, 20 pairs of Azure Damselfly ovipositing at meadow pond, 2 Beautiful Demoiselle, 2 White Legged Damselfly, 1 Emperor Dragonfly.
Animals:- 1 Fallow Deer, 4 Grass Snakes & Field Vole nest under tins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dam End:- 100+ Swifts over dam early morning, Spotted Flycatcher in Paddock, 6 Mistle Thrush including 4 juv’s.
Lagoon:- Little Grebe.
North Bank:- Tawny Owl, Red Kite and Red-legged Partridge.
West End:- Lesser Black-backed Gull, Jay, Grey Wagtail.

Dam End:- 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 6 Swifts, 5 House Martins, 2 Chiffchaffs, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Song Thrush, 9 Greylag Geese, 26 Canada Geese.
West End:- 2 Kingfishers, 12 Common Terns, 2 Tufted Ducks, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Swallows.

Dam End:- 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 adult + 1 immature Mute Swans, 3 House Martins, 2 Mistle Thrush.
West End:- 1m Mandarin, 1 Kestrel, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Terrapin.
Whillet’s:- 1 Singing Yellowhammer, 1m Reed Bunting, 1m Bullfinch, 2 Buzzard, 2 Roe Deer, 2m Common Blue Butterflies, 1 Burnet Campanion, 2m Broad-Bodied Chaser.

Dam End:- 1 Turnstone, 1 Grey Plover, 11 Common Sandpipers.

Whillet’s:-1 Sedge Warbler,1 Cuckoo

WeBS and Other Sightings
Dam End:- 1 Little Grebe on lagoon also Garden Warbler and Song Thrush in same area. 16 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 immature Mute Swan, 2 Greylag Geese plus a Canada/Greylag hybrid, 15 Canada Geese flock (5 adults in a creche with 10 young), pair of Mandarin + female with 8 tiny ducklings, 14 adult + 3 well-grown young Mallards plus domestic Mallard with the white front, 1 Buzzard, 2 Hobby flying along North bank between dam and picnic area mid-morning, 2 Common Sandpiper on dam wall,  1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 3 Common Tern, 1 Swift, 1 Swallow, 5 House Martins around pumping station, 3 Pied Wagtail, at least 4 Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap and Chiffchaff around dam area. 1 Raven being mobbed by Crows, 1 flyover Linnet.
Also: 2 Common Blue and1 Small Copper butterflies on dam wall.
West End:- 9 Great Crested Grebe, 30 Cormorant, 14 Grey Heron, 4 Canada Geese, 14 adult +2 well-grown young Mallard, 11 Common Tern on rafts (7 pair total), Stock Dove heard, 2 Swallow, 1 Pied Wagtail, Blackcap and pair of Nuthatch at Car Park, 2 Goldfinch flyover.
Whillets:- 2 Canada Geese, 4 Mallard, 1 Buzzard, 1m Kestrel, Stock Dove, 3+ Reed Warbler, 1 Reed Bunting, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Garden Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff.
Also:- 1 Grass Snake, 1 Common Lizard.
Butterflies – 2 Red Admiral; 3 Peacock, 1Green-veined White, 1 Large White also a Wood Carpet moth.
Dragonflies – 2 Azure Damselfly, 1 female Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly ovipositing at meadow pond (See pic), 2 Beautiful Demoiselle.

West End: 14 Grey Herons (photo of one of this years fledged young). The heronry is getting quieter as the young fledge or adults leave after a failed nesting attempt. A few later starters are still active.  29 Cormorants (there are13 active nests many of which have young; Cormorants started nesting later so none have fledged yet). 6 Great Crested Grebe (displaying seen), 7 pairs of Common Terns are holding territories on the rafts, A female Mallard with 3 well-grown young.
2 Canada Geese with 5 young on Pintail, 2 Greylag flew over, 3m Mandarin, 1 Buzzard,  1 Stock Dove, 1 flyover Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Swallow, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Goldfinch.
Whillet’s:- 2 Canada Geese, pair of Mandarin flew over, 1 Buzzard, 2+ Reed Warbler, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, 4 Garden Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, a singing Nightingale (rare for here) was heard last week but not today.  1 Downy Emerald Dragonfly, 1 Large Red and 1 Azure Damselflies, 1 Beautiful Demoiselle. 1 Grass Snake, 2 Peacock and 2 Green-veined White butterflies.