Whillet’s:-12 Small Skipper,16 Large Skipper,1 Large White, 1 Small Copper, 1 Comma, 4 Marbled White, 1 Gatekeeper, 62 Meadow Brown, 31 Ringlets, 1 Six Spot Burnet, 6 Grass Snake, 1 Common Toad, 2 Common Frog, 1 Water Shrew, 2 Brown Hawker, 1 Southern Hawker, 1 female Black-tailed Skimmer, 1 Blue-tailed Damselfly, 2 White-legged Damselfly, 40+ Azure Damselfly. 1 Longhorn Beetle.
West End:- at dawn, Little Egret on Pintail Bank, a few Mandarin.
Dam Rnd:- 57 Black-headed Gulls including the first juveniles of the summer, 4 Common Sandpipers on the dam, pair of Common Terns on the aerator with a few more around. An adult Great Black-backed Gull, Red Kite early on, 5 Jays including 3 juveniles, Blackcap, 4 Swifts, male Green Woodpecker on the dam, Sand Martin and a Marsh Tit in the car park.
West End:- 13 Greylag Goose, 2 Mallard, 15 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Stock Dove, 4 Common Woodpigeon, 32 Black-headed Gull, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 26 Great Cormorant, 11 Grey Heron, 2 Common Reed Warbler, 13 Barn Swallow, 2 Common Chiffchaff, 1 Eurasian Blackcap, 1 Eurasian Wren, 1 European Robin, 1 Dunnock
Dam End:- 3 Common Sandpipers, 2 Common Terns still nesting on pontoon, 27 Black-headed Gulls, 2 Herring Gulls, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Mandarin, 9 Mallard, 1 Moorhen, 2 Sand Martin, 5 Swallow, flock of 42 Starlings flew east, 2 Mute Swans flew west, 27 Canada Geese, 6 Egyptian Geese now fully fledged and flying, 37 Greylag Geese + 1 Blue morph type snow goose hybrid with something else? 2 Green Woodpeckers feeding on grass slope behind dam.
West End:- Osprey at 13:05 briefly, a few Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martin, a few Common Terns.
Dam End:- Common Sandpiper, 12 Swifts, a few Common Terns and the Osprey again, 39 Black-headed Gulls, Great Black-backed Gull, female Sparrowhawk.
21 July 2024 – Open Day – details available HERE.
02 November 2024 Autumn Walk for members.
Our annual afternoon walk will take place on Saturday 2nd November starting at
13.00, meet in the Hide car park. We will follow our usual format – walking through
the Study Area to Pintail Point looking at fungi and other things of interest and then
on to Whillets meadows where if the weather is kind we may be able to offer some
bird ringing. Further details will be issued nearer the time.
TBC April 2025 Spring Walk for members – details to be confirmed.
TBC March/April 2025 AGM and talk for members – details to be confirmed.
West End:- 1 1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 3 Black-headed Gull, 2 Common Tern, 5 House Martin, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Warbler heard.
Butterflies: 2 Ringlet
Whillet’s:- 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (flyover), 1 Whitethroat, 2 Garden Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 1 Yellowhammer heard, 1 Reed Bunting heard.
Butterflies: 2 Ringlet, 1 Large Skipper.
Dam End:- 2 Common Sandpiper, 1m Tufted Duck, 8 Egyptian Geese including 6 goslings, 2 Common terns nesting on pontoon, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Herring Gull, 17 Black-headed Gull, 10 Mallard, 14 Great Crested Grebe, 47 Greylag Geese, 18 Swallows, 1 Swift, 3 Goldfinch, Kingfisher, 2 Jay.
West End:- 2 Coot, 3 Common Tern, 1 Mandarin, 2 House Martin.
West End :- 55 Greylag Goose, 20 Canada Goose, 3 Greylag x Canada Goose (hybrid), 1 Mandarin Duck, 3 Mallard, 12 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Black-headed Gull, 4 Common Tern, 33 Great Cormorant, 8 Grey Heron, 1 Common Kingfisher, 1 Common Kestrel, 80 Eurasian Jackdaw, 2 Eurasian Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 1 Common Reed Warbler, 3 Common Chiffchaff, 2 Eurasian Wren, 2 European Robin, 2 Common Chaffinch