Category: Sighting

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.

Dam : 4 Common Sandpipers

West End : lone ‘Commic’ Tern.

West End:  1 Terrapin, 1 Lapwing, 2 Stock Dove

Whillet’s: Reed Warbler heard, Song Thrush heard, 1 Jay, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Sparrowhawk

Dam End: 1 Green Sandpiper on dam wall briefly, 2 Common Sandpiper & 9 Pied Wagtails & 2 Grey Wagtails, 1 Wheatear + Male Reed Bunting around dam wall area, 2 Common Tern, Green Woodpecker & Skylark heard, 4 Swallow, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Sparrowhawk.

West End:  1 Little Grebe & 15 Swallows by A Gray.  2M Mandarin & 2 Common Tern, Blackcap & Chiffchaff by B Johnson. 1 Drake Garganey reported by Birdguides flying over towards Dam end.

Whillet’s: Reed Warbler & Stock Dove heard at pool, 2 Whitethroat, Song Thrush heard & 3 flyover Herring Gull  by Bob Johnson

Dam End: Buzzard, 2 Little Ringed Plover on dam wall, 1 Sand Martin, 1 House Martin, 50+ Swallows, 4 Pied Wagtails, 1 Whitethroat by A Gray.  2 Common Sandpiper on dam wall & Green Woodpecker heard by B Johnson

North bank by Working Party: 1Cuckoo heard, Brimstone & Orange Tip butterflies, 1 Buzzard being mobbed by corvids. 1 Common Tern.

West End by Bob Johnson: 9 Green Sandpipers on Pintail bank, Marsh Tit, Nuthatch & GS Woodpecker on feeders, 2 Common Tern showing interest in rafts. 4M+1F Mandarin,

Dam end by R Lowe: 35 GC Grebe, 1 Greenshank , 1 Common Sandpiper also by Bob Johnson 1 Arctic Tern, 3 Little Ringed Plover displaying, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Mute Swan, 1 Buzzard being mobbed by Lapwing, 2 Kingfisher reported by B Lanigan.

West End: 1 Common Tern, 5 Mandarin being seen close to viewing area sitting in trees, 1 Buzzard, 2 GS Woodpecker. Song Thrush singing at Whillet’s, 2 Blackcap and Chiffchaff are singing. At the Heronry some heron nests now have some well grown young which can be viewed from the road side with care.

Whillet’s Pool: Reed Warbler heard by R Lowe

Dam End: 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Egyptian Geese flew over, 1 Skylark, 6 Sand Martins, 3 House Martins, 6 Mute Swan

West End: 1 Kingfisher, 1 Lapwing, 54 GC Grebe, 3 Tufted Duck, 1 Buzzard, 1 Reed Bunting, 5 Mandarin, 18 Swallows, Nuthatch, GS Woodpecker, 2 Common Terns which visited the rafts.

North Bank by A Gray: 1 Whitethroat, 9 Blackcaps, numerous Chiffchaffs, 1 Kestrel, 3 Bullfinch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Green Woodpecker

West End: 54 GC Grebe, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher,  5 House Martins, 70+ Swallows, 1 Goldfinch,

Dam End: 2 Little Ringed Plover  and 1 Common Sandpiper + 1 Wheatear, 10 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail all at dam wall area, 1 LBB Gull, 1 Kestrel

North bank: 2 C Whitethroats, 2 Blackcaps, 4 Chiffchaff