Category: Sighting

Whillets Meadow Pond: Male Southern Hawker Dragonfly one of two flying over the pond. The Azure Damselfly flight season is stated as being over by the end of August so this is quite late for a reasonably fresh looking specimen.

West End: 16 Teal, 1 Wigeon, 1 Pochard, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 32 Lapwing, 3 Stock Dove.

West End: 5 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 26 Lapwing, 1 Little Egret, 12 Teal.

Roesel’s Bush Cricket – new record for our reserve. Found and photographed by Alastair Gray.

West End: 10 Black-headed Gull, 18 Cormorant, 4 Grey Heron, 3 Kingfisher, 1 Little Egret, 3 Mandarin Duck, 3 Rook, 3 Swallow, 2 Woodpigeon, 12 Canada Goose, 4 Green Sandpiper, 14 Greylag Goose, 35 Lapwing, 70+ Mallard, 3 Moorhen, 5 Stock Dove, 4 Teal, 10 Great Crested Grebe.

West End: 4 Kingfisher, 8 Teal, 5 Green Sandpiper.

Whillets: 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Common Whitethroat.

West End: 4 Kingfisher, 5 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Egret, 32 Lapwing, 6 Teal, 3 Buzzard, 293 Greylag Goose, 83 Great Crested Grebe, 14 Grey Heron.

West End at about 14:00 an Osprey dived for a fish and then drifted off to the Dam End.

West End: 1 Greenshank also reported by David Williams, 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Egret, 9 Teal, 4+ Mandarin, 12 Moorhen, 33 Lapwing, 6 Swallow, Buzzard & Great Spotted Woodpecker heard. 3 Fallow Deer.

Whillets:  1juv Blackcap, 1 + 1juv Chiffchaff, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 20+ House Martin.

West End: 35+ Black-headed Gull, 1 Carrion Crow, 46+ Great Crested Grebe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 170+ Greylag Goose, 28 Lapwing, 13 Mallard, 3 Teal, 10 Canada Goose, 6 Cormorant, 10 Grey Heron, 5 Greylag Goose (domestic), 1 Little Egret, 3 Moorhen, 3 Woodpigeon. 2 Roe deer and fawn. 1 Great White Egret (possible).