Category: Sighting

West End:  3 Common Buzzards, 2 Common Terns, Garden Warbler seen and heard near the car park, Lapwing on Pintail bank, 2 Common Sandpipers flew in front of viewing area, 2 Stock Doves, Jay, 2 Mandarin.

Whillets Pool: 3 Reed Warblers.

West End: Two pairs of Common Terns on the rafts at dusk.

At the West End: 20 Great Crested Grebes, 4 Cormorants, Swallow, Chiffchaff, 20 Canada Geese, 2 Mute Swans, Lapwing, Mandarin Duck, 2 Grey Herons on nest.

At Whillets: 2 Reed Warblers, Coot, 2 Moorhens, 3 Mallard and 4 Chiffchaff.

At West End: 2 Goldfinch, 2 Swallows, 3 Herring Gulls, Common Tern, 4 Mandarin Ducks, 2 Blackcaps, Lapwing, 3 Common Whitethroat, 5 House Sparrows, Mistle Thrush.

At Dam End: 1 Kestrel, 5 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 5 Common Swifts, 3 Song Thrush, 4 House Martins, 1 Sand Martin, 4 Common Whitethroats, 3 Goldfinch, Swallow, 4 Pied Wagtails, 3 Grey Wagtails and Yellowhammer

Keith Hackett

West End: Hobby, Garden Warbler near car park, 3 male Mandarin.

Dam End: 2 Arctic Terns, 2 Common Terns and a Grey Wagtail.

Bob Johnson

Whillets:   Kingfisher, 3 Reed Warblers, Kestrel, Buzzard, 2 Whitethroats, Blackcap and Chiffchaff. 3 Orange Tip butterflies. Long-tailed tit with nesting material.

West End: Lapwing, 3 Swallows and Whitethroat in front of viewing area.

Dam: 10 Common Sandpipers also at Dam End 40+ House Martins, 2 Common Buzzards, pair of Grey Wagtails, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Common Terns, 2 Goldcrests and a Garden Warbler.

West End: Cuckoo, Reed Warbler and Reed Bunting.

Black Cap, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler singing along the South bank. Also Barn Owl, 2 Common Terns, Swallow and Orange Tip butterfly.

West End: seen by Bob Johnson – 2 pairs of Tufted Ducks, pair of Mandarin and 4 Moorhen. Pairs of Great Crested Grebes are still displaying. Some heronry chicks are now very well grown and expect one or two will be fledging soon.

West End: A pair of Mandarins, Swallow + Sand Martins, about 12 Canada
Geese, Whitethroat and a Common Tern.

West End:  2 Common Tern, c.15 Swallows, House Martin, Sand Martin, 2 Mute Swan, 25 Canada Geese, 1M Mandarin, Stock Dove heard.

Whillets Pool:  Reed Warbler & Song Thrush singing,  Goldcrest heard, Canada Geese nesting on island.

Dam End: 5 Common Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Common Sandpiper, Skylark, Kestrel.