Category: Sighting

West End: Common Sandpiper on Pintail Bank, Common Tern, Common Gull.

Whillets: Pair of Reed Buntings and a male Orange Tip butterfly.

West End: Common Tern and Lapwing.

Dam: 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Sandpipers, Wheatear (male), 2 Grey Wagtails, 2 Pied Wagtails, 2 Reed Buntings.

North Bank: 2 Blackcaps, 2 Chiffchaffs, 2 Coots

West End: 2 Tufted Ducks, 2 Lapwings, 2 Pied Wagtails, 10 Swallows, 2 Coots.

Dam: Grey Wagtail, 2 Wheatears (pair); 2 Green Sandpipers.

Whilletts: seen by Alastair Gray: Tawny Owl, Chiffchaff

West End: seen by Kevin Hazelden and Alastair Gray: Kestrel, 2 Shoveler (fly over), 2 Grey Wagtails (fly over), Stock Dove. Seen by Bob Johnson: 7 Mandarin, pair of Teal, Great Black-backed Gull (fly over), 47 Great Crested Grebe, 38 Canada Geese, 2 Greylag Geese, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Sand Martin, 14 Swallows, Pied Wagtail, Mute Swan, Blackcap (heard), Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, 2 Goldfinch.

Dam End: seen by Bob Johnson: Grey Wagtail, 5 Pied Wagtails, 2 Little Ringed Plovers on dam wall.

North Bank: seen by Bob Johnson: 2 Roe Deer.

West end: Three Woodcock, 6 Mandarin, Treecreeper, Snipe, Barn Owl along North Bank, and a Swallow.

Whillets: Two Kestrels.

West end: pair of Garganey seen near Pintail bank, 1 Swallow + 3 seen at dam end, 26 GC Grebe, 2 Heron chicks seen at heronry, 2 Mute Swan + 4 more at dam end, 3 Mandarin, pair of Tufted Duck, Sparrowhawk and Chiffchaff at Whillets, 2 Buzzards, 1 Lapwing. Two Sand Martins seen by Shane Nash.

Dam end: 2 Little Ringed Plover along dam wall, 1 LBB Gull flyover, 2 GBB Gulls, 3 Herring Gull flyover,10 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Stock Dove flyover, Goldcrest heard.

West End: 9 Buzzards,6 Swallows,1 Goldeneye,1 Kingfisher,4 Tufted Duck,2 Teal,2 Snipe,1 Chiffchaff,1 Sparrowhawk,  At Whillets: 4 Toads,1 Treecreeper,2 Chiffchaff,1 Moorhen,1 Mallard,2 Long Tailed Tit,1 Kestrel.

Osprey flew over west end during afternoon but was being mobbed and drifted off.

West end: Peter Johnson reported 28 Heron nests viewable from hide, 2 Mute Swan, 20+ Canada Geese, Male Goldeneye still, Male Teal, Lapwing, 6 GS Woodpeckers, Pied Wagtail, 2 LT Tit, Marsh Tit, Nuthatch, 4 Greenfinch, 4+ Goldfinch.  Alistair Gray also reported 6 Mandarin, 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Buzzard, 7 Swallow and at DamEnd: Skylark, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Chiffchaff + further 6 on North bank, Goldcrest, 2 Reed Bunting, 1 Bullfinch + 3 more on North bank which also had 2 Jay, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Coal Tit.  Finally at the dam Wall Jonathan Ross reported 2 Little Ringed Plovers.