Category: Sighting

Weir Wood Reservoir – Dam end:- 14 x Canada Goose, 4 x Greylag x Canada Goose (hybrid), 5 x Mallard, 5 x Common Woodpigeon, 1 x Common Moorhen, 1 x Common Sandpiper, 56 x Black-headed Gull, 1 x Lesser Black-backed Gull, 38 x Great Crested Grebe, 4 x Grey Heron, 1 x Common Buzzard, 1 x Common Magpie, 6 x Western House Martin, 3 x Pied Wagtail

WeirWood was visited on a drizzly midday, it’s been quiet the last few days but here amongst the scattered gulls a juv’/1st winter Kittiwake was brilliant to see, also 50+ House Martins and fewer Barn Swallows. At the west end Kingfisher, more hirundines and 3 Snipe on Pintail bank. Plenty of phyllosc’s calling here and 2 Greenfinches in Legsheath Lane.

West End:- 31 x Mandarin Duck, 11 x Mallard, 1 x Stock Dove, 3 x Common Woodpigeon, 9 x Black-headed Gull, 1 x Little Grebe, 6 x Great Crested Grebe, 12 x Great Cormorant, 1 x Grey Heron, 1 x Coal Tit, 2 x Marsh Tit, 2 x Eurasian Blue Tit, 1 x Great Tit, 12 x Barn Swallow, 3 x Common Chiffchaff, 1 x European Robin

Dam End:- 1 x Common Sandpiper, and ca50 house martins.

WeirWood mid-late morning. At the west end Little Egret, ca20 Barn Swallows, 3 Sand Martins and a House Martin. 2 Snipe were on Pintail bank and a Great and Lesser Black-backed Gull, both ad’s. At the dam more hirundines mostly Barn Swallows but also Sand and House Martins too. Probably 100+ birds involved. On the north bank a Common Sandpiper, also Hobby and a rather bedraggled male Sparrowhawk flew in and landed on the dam fence. Among the 30 or so gulls was an ad’ Common Gull plus 2 beautiful 2nd year Mediterranean Gulls. A surprise was the 5 Crossbills that flew over the c/pk just as I was leaving. Sadly they didn’t land.

West end :- 4 Lapwing now flown, 1 Great Black Backed Gull, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 10 Mandarins, small parties of House and Sand Martins following heavy rain, 2 Kingfishers, 1 Swift, 1 Red Kite, 1 Common Sandpiper.

Just a single Common Sandpiper on dam mid afternoon