Whillets :- Osprey
Dam End:- Red Foot Falcon
Whillets :- Osprey
Dam End:- Red Foot Falcon
Dam End (PM):- White Stork over, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpipers, 3+ Hobbies, no sign of RFF although it had been seen just before I got there.
Dam End:- Red Footed Falcon & 3+ Hobby and Kestrel all hawking over North Bank this mid to late morning. Common Sand on dam wall.
West End:- 1 Little Egret in Heronry but not at nest seen earlier in week. 4 Common Tern & 2 Black Headed Gull on rafts and 1 Great Black Backed Gull over.
Dam end/Picnic Area:- 11 Common Sandpipers, 4 Little ringed Plovers, Redshank, 7 hobbies, 1 Red Footed Falcon. Painted Lady and a Downy Emerald seen on north shore.
West End: 1 Osprey flying over
Dam end :-3 x Greylag Goose, 37 x Canada Goose, 2 x Mandarin Duck, 2 x Common Sandpiper, 1 x Common Redshank, 17 x European Herring Gull, 5 x Common Tern, 3 x Common Buzzard, 1 x Red-footed Falcon, 1 x Carrion Crow
dam End:- 2 Whimbrel and Greenshank on dam with Redshank.
Dam End (2pm):- 3 Hobbies, 8 Black headed Gulls, 6 Common Terns, 2 Swifts, Redshank, 6 Common Sandpipers, 1 Little Ringed Plover and Garden warbler singing in car park.
Dam end :-2 x Greylag Goose, 26 x Canada Goose, 2 x Egyptian Goose, 2 x Mandarin Duck, 4 x Common Woodpigeon, 2 x Common Swift, 2 x Little Ringed Plover, 6 x Common Sandpiper, 1 x Common Redshank, 4 x Black-headed Gull, 23 x European Herring Gull, 6 x Common Tern, 1 x Grey Heron, 2 x Common Buzzard, 5 x Eurasian Hobby, 2 x Carrion Crow, 3 x Common Chiffchaff, 3 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Eurasian Blackbird, 2 x Pied Wagtail
Dame End:- Much the same at the dam mid afternoon 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 4 Hobbies, 14 Common Terns , 10 Herring Gulls, 1 House Martin, 6 Swallows.
Whillets:- 2 Reed Warblers,2 Garden Warblers,3 Mandarins on river,Whitethroat.
Butterfly’s:- 3 Peacock,3 Orange Tips,1 Speckled Wood,4 Burnett Campion Moths,2 Grass Snakes,1 Common Lizard,8 Beautiful Demoiselles,1 White- Legged Damselfly.
Picnic Area (North bank):- Superb views of feeding Hobbies from the picnic site. Singing Reed Bunting with the Garden Warblers and Whitethroat here.