Category: Sighting

WeirWood in light rain produced Great Egret at the west end. A Water Rail was feeding under the feeders with a male Pheasant. Don’t think I’ve seen those two feeding together before. On the water Little Grebe and 7 Wigeon plus 7 Great-crested Grebes. On the feeders the usual crowd were entertaining with their squabblings and the heronry was very busy.

WeirWood mid afternoon nice to see female Goshawk today again. An interesting sighting was 5 Red Kites perched up near the rocks at Whillett’s.

West End. Goshawk, 4 Wigeon, 2 Tufted Ducks, Little Grebe, Water Rail, 26 Herons, 7 GC Grebes, 18+ Redpolls in stubble field on north bank.

West End:- 6 x Canada Goose, 3 x Greylag Goose, 7 x Mandarin Duck, 11 x Wigeon, 18 x Mallard, 6 x Teal, 2 x Pochard, 1 x Stock Dove, 6 x Woodpigeon, 1 x Moorhen, 1 x Coot, 5 x Great Crested Grebe, 12 x Cormorant, 19 x Grey Heron, 3 x Magpie, 2 x Jackdaw, 1 x Coal Tit, 2 x Marsh Tit, 11 x Blue Tit, 5 x Great Tit, 4 x Long-tailed Tit, 1 x Nuthatch, 3 x Blackbird, 2 x Dunnock, 2 x Chaffinch

WeirWood, a late morning brief stop at the west end produced a superb pair of Goshawks displaying over and in front of Admirals Wood, also Great Egret flew north towards the dam. Little on the water except 2 Little Grebes but no Goosanders today. Not bad though for 20 minutes.

WeirWood, having been away for 10 days it was good to catch up. The weather was much better than expected. For me 2 Goosanders both redheads were seen, Red Kite, 7 Buzzards, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2 Little Grebe and 16 Redpolls all at the west end. Marsh and Coal Tit were there as usual and the Water Rail at the feeding station was a nice view of this species. The heronry was busy with 30+ birds present. The only gulls noted were 4 Common Gulls and an ad’ Lesser Black-backed. 2 Ravens put in an appearance over the west end. Not a bad morning.

West End:- 5 x Canada Goose, 1 x Egyptian Goose, 12 x Mallard, 2 x Pheasant, 2 x Stock Dove, 73 x Woodpigeon, 2 x Coot, 8 x Great Crested Grebe, 8 x Cormorant, 29 x Grey Heron, 2 x Buzzard, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 x Magpie, 12 x Jackdaw, 3 x Carrion Crow, 1 x Coal Tit, 2 x Marsh Tit, 7 x Blue Tit, 2 x Great Tit, 4 x Long-tailed Tit, 2 x Nuthatch, 1 x Blackbird, 2 x Robin, 2 x Dunnock, 1 x Goldfinch

West end this afternoon before the rain with David Williams.
5 Buzzards, Red Kite & Peregrine(male).
33 Grey Herons in Heronry, on the water Goosander (redhead) 2 Coots, 16 Mallard & 1 Tufted Duck.
Great white Egret flew west, 7 Lesser Redpolls over car park, Goldcrest and Marsh Tit around feeders & 3 Common Gulls over.

West End – 28 Herons in heronry, Red Kite, Tufted Duck, 21 Mallards, 6 Cormorants, 6 GC Grebes, Little Grebe, 3 Coots, Lesser Redpoll, 7 Snipe on Pintail, 3 Fieldfares, Chiffchaff, Marsh Tit.

A quick west End Heronry survey confirmed 27 active Heron nests and 4 active Cormorant nests so far. However there are many more nests, those were just the ones where birds were seen at the nest.