Category: Sighting

Dam End:- 2 x drake Common Scooter, 2 x Hobby, Red Kite, 11 Egyptians (9 Goslings), 2 Little ringed Plovers and 2 Com Sands on dam ,4 Common Terns, Grey Wagtail ,Great Black Backed gull, 3 Swifts, 5 Swallows and 2 House Martins all in a cold NE breeze. Plenty of common Warblers still singing.

Dam End:- WeirWood was beautiful and calm at 6:00hrs and today started off with 2 female Common Scoters from the dam. The pair of Common Terns were still on the aerator and 2 Common Sands were still in situ. Several Mandarins were scattered around. Over the dam a dozen House Martins and 3 Swifts were feeding. A pair of Grey Wagtails briefly joined 16 Pied Wagtails on the dam plus a Linnet male. At 6:20hrs the Common Scoter flew off north. In all 6 Common Terns were noted from the dam. A Great Egret flew south, continuing around Admirals Wood, a smart adult and presumably the bird seen recently. In the c/pk a Garden Warbler again and below the dam in the bushes a Whitethroat plus another Garden Warbler, Buzzard and 2 Green Woodpeckers.

West End:- 2 Kingfishers were noted plus a pair of the Common Terns were on one of the nesting rafts but generally it was quiet. No sign of the Great Egret.

Whilletts:- the Reed Warbler was still present plus Reed Bunting female and another Garden Warbler. I left at 7:30hrs.

Dam End:- WeirWood early afternoon, a pair of Common Terns were on the aerator, with 3 more out on the buoys, 3 Hobbies were around the north bank and over the dam plus Little-ringed Plover and 2 Common Sands on the dam. A Garden Warbler was singing on the trees by the viewpoint. Several House Martins were about plus a few Barn Swallows and 3 Swifts. Best bird today was the male Goshawk seen from the dam end as it made its way along the south bank. Below the dam in the bushes a minimum of 3 Whitethroats noted plus Green and Great spotted Woodpeckers.

West End:- relatively quiet with just a pair of Common Terns investigating the rafts, 5 male Mandarins and 2 Black-headed Gulls also on one of the rafts.

Whilletts:- still had Reed Warbler to offer but little else.

Dam End (PM):- 2 Hobbies N, 2 Swifts, 8 Swallows, 7 Common Terns, 1 Black headed gull, 20 Herring gull, 1 Lesser Black Backed gull, 2 Mandarins, 1 Little ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpipers, 26 Canada Geese, 7 Great Crested grebes,1 Green Woodpecker.
Whillets:- 3+ Garden Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 4 Whitethroats, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Blackcap, 1 Green Woodpecker.
Others:- 1 male Broad-bodied chaser, 2 Peacock, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Speckled Wood, 4 Orange Tip, 4 GV whites, 1 Brimstone.

Dam End (PM):- small emergence of mayflies. 1 Hobby low over the dam, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Common Sandpipers, 4 Common Terns, 10 Swallows, 2 Lesser Black Bbacked Gull, 1 Black Headed Gull, 1 Grey Wagtail, 8 Pied Wagtails, 1 Green Woodpecker.

Dam end:-2 Little ringed plovers, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 male Wheatear, 6 Pied wagtails, 3 Swallow, 6 House Martins, 2 Common Terns nesting on pontoon mid reservoir.
West end:- 1 Little Egret, 1 Mandarin, 1 Mute Swan, pair black headed gulls on rafts but no Terns.

Dame End (PM):- 2 Little ringed plovers and 1 Common Sandpiper on dam, 2 Common Terns, 1 Lesser Black Backed gull, 1 GreatBlack Backed gull, 18 Herring and 2 Black headed gulls, 2 each of Garden and Whitethroat noted, Green Woodpecker heard.

West end:- 2 Black headed gulls and 1 Common Tern on rafts, 1 Coot, 1 Mandarin.

Whillets:-1+ Reed Warbler, Garden warbler, 3 Whitethroats.
Butterflies-2 Speckled wood, 1 Large white, 3 Green veined white, 2 Orange tip, 2 Peacocks.

Dam End:- WeirWood on a lovely calm morning was fairly quiet to start but soon picked up. At the dam 2 Common Sands and 2 Common Terns, a few House Martins and a Swift. On the dam top a couple of nice Wheatear, male and female were seen only briefly after first light. In the c/pk a Garden Warbler was seen and in the overflow a pair of Grey Wagtails. Whitethroat was still in the bushes and along the north bank a Lesser Whitethroat was noted near the picnic site, here it was odd to have a Curlew fly over headed north.

West End:- a summer plumaged Great Egret was on the canoeist beach and 2 Common Terns were now on a nesting platform, 2 Kingfishers were seen.

Whilletts:- 3 Reed Buntings and a Reed Warbler. Not a bad morning after a few really quiet ones.

West End:- 1 Hobby, 1 female Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Tufted Duck pair, 2 Great Black Backed, 2 Lesser Black Backed, 2 Black Headed Gulls, 1 Little Egret, 2 Swallows.

Dam End:- Whimbrel, Buzzards, Red Kite, Raven, female Sparrowhawk and 2 Swallows noted.

Whillets:-3 Whitethroats, Garden Warbler, 1+ Reed Warbler, 2 Reed Buntings and 2 Bullfinch.
Butterflies:-1 Red Admiral, 2 Orange Tip, 3 Peacock,
Others:- 1 Green- veined White + Common Lizard, Field Vole and Common Shrew. No Grass Snakes.