Category: Sighting

West end:-3 Gadwall, 3 Mandarin, 32 Canada Geese, 1 Mute Swan, 3 Swallows, 2 Sand Martins, Marsh Tit, 1 Common Tern, 2 Black headed gulls, 1 Great black backed hill, 1 Sparrowhawk.
Whillets:- 1 singing Reed Warbler.

West End:- 1 Snipe on Pintail, 5 Mandarin, 3 Egyptian Geese, 4 Swallow, 7 GC Grebe, 1 immature Mute Swan, 1 Coot, 1 LBB Gull, 1 Green Woodpecker. Curlew over-flying.
Dam End:- 2 Common Sands on the dam and 2 Linnets behind the dam, 3 Whitethroats, a pair of Marsh Tits in woods along north bank.

West End:- 5 x Greylag Goose, 17 x Canada Goose, 5 x Egyptian Goose, 9 x Mandarin Duck, 9 x Mallard, 1 x Common Pheasant, 2 x Stock Dove, 3 x Common Woodpigeon, 1 x Common Moorhen, 1 x Black-headed Gull, 8 x Great Crested Grebe, 29 x Great Cormorant, 35 x Grey Heron, 1 x Common Kingfisher, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 x Common Magpie, 1 x Marsh Tit, 5 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 3 x Great Tit, 2 x Common Chiffchaff, 2 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Common Whitethroat, 2 x Eurasian Wren, 1 x Song Thrush, 1 x European Robin, 2 x Dunnock, 1 x Pied Wagtail, 1 x Common Chaffinch, 3 x European Goldfinch

Dam End (30mins this afternoon) :- just 1 Black headed Gull west, 5 Swallows, 1 House Martin and female Grey Wagtail on dam.
West end :- 2 immature Mute Swans, 3 Teal, 2 Mandarins, 2 Great black backed gulls, 4 Stock doves, 1 Swallow and at 16:35 a smallish white Tern flew into view did 2 circuits then flew off west, lovely Arctic Tern.

Dam End (windy and cold) :- 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Tern, 2 Mute Swan, Red Kite, 2 House Martin, 10 swallow, Willow Warbler at north end of dam, Garden Warbler at Millennium Picnic site, 2 Whitethroat, Early Purple Orchid, Common Twayblade.

Common Tern seen by the working party at Weir Wood this pm

Whillets: Reed warbler heard singing.

West End:- 9 x Canada Goose, 3 x Egyptian Goose, 6 x Mandarin Duck, 2 x Mallard, 3 x Stock Dove, 5 x Common Woodpigeon, 1 x Common Moorhen, 6 x Great Crested Grebe, 37 x Great Cormorant, 34 x Grey Heron, 1 x Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 x Common Magpie, 1 x Coal Tit, 1 x Marsh Tit, 4 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 2 x Great Tit, 2 x Barn Swallow, 2 x Common Chiffchaff, 1 x Eurasian Blackcap, 1 x Eurasian Wren, 2 x European Robin, 1 x Dunnock, 1 x Common Chaffinch, 2 x European Goldfinch

Dam end and north bank footpath as far as picnic site. 2 Common Sands, 3 Swallows, 5 Sand Martins, 1 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel, 2 Green Woodpecker, 5 singing Whitethroat, 2 Mandarin, female Mallard with 8 very young ducklings, Speckled Wood, Comma, Orange Tip, Early Purple Orchid in flower.

All reservoir counts: 21 GC Grebe, 13 Mallard, 4 Buzzard, 3 LBB Gull, 5 Stock Dove, 3 Pied Wagtail, Chiffchaff & Blackcap song was numerous everywhere, Nuthatch & Song Thrush also heard.  

Dam End: 4 Greylag, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 White feral Farmyard Geese, 1 Mandarin Duck, 3 Herring Gull, 1 Common Whitethroat, 6 Jay, 30 nests at Rookery, 3 Crow.

West End:  35 Cormorant & 38 Heron at heronry, 18 Canada Geese, 6 Mandarin Duck, 1 Teal, pair of Tufted Duck, 1 Red Kite, Up to 4 Common Sandpiper were on a raft, 4 Med Gulls flew over, 8 BH Gull,  2 GBB Gull flew over, 1 Collared Dove, 1 Kingfisher,  8 Swallow, 6 House Martin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Marsh Tit.     

Whillet’s: 2 Green Woodpecker, 1GS Woodpecker, 1+ Common Whitethroat.

(butterflies) 2m+1f Orange Tip, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Green-veined White.  Also – 2 Grass Snake & 4 Common Shrew noted.