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9.10am to 11.05am. 35 species recorded including:

  • Sand Martins 3
  • Great Crested Grebes 2
  • Mute Swans 3 (2 of which appeared to be nesting earlier this week On a hay bale placed in the south-west reedbed by myself and Rick Parker for this purpose though on this visit they seem to have abandoned I thought I could see an egg on the bale through the reeds)
  • Reed Warbler 1 (heard only)
  • Reed Buntings 12+
  • Bullfinch 1
  • Chiffchaff
  • Willow Warblers 4
  • Long-tailed tits 2
  • Snipe 1 (flying)
  • Blackcaps 2
  • Common Terns 2 (Must has arrived during this visit as they were not on the raft when I arrived)


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8.50am to 10.10am. 32 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 3
  • Song Thrush 1
  • Reed Buntings 8
  • Water Rails 2 (heard only in the NW reedbed)
  • Chiffchaff 3
  • Willow Tit 1
  • Teal 4


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8.55am to 10.40am. 34 species recorded including:

  • Teal 2
  • Willow Tits 2
  • Water Rail 1 (heard only)
  • Oystercatcher 1 (flew low calling over the island without landing before flying off the site)
  • Goosander (Female) 1


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9.05am to 10.15am 30 species recorded including:

  • Chiffchaff 1
  • Bullfinch 2
  • Mute Swans 3
  • Snipe 3
  • Cetti's Warbler 1 (As predicted by Andy Makin )


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8.40am to 10.10am. 35 species recorded including:

  • Teal 8
  • Water Rail 1
  • Shoveler 2
  • Snipe 4  


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Wed 27.2.19  (5.20 - 6.25PM)

Bittern        (in flight 6.20pm)

Water rail    (heard twice from causeway reed bed)

Snipe 20     (all flew away 6.10-6.25pm NW)

Tufted ducks

Mallards

Shoveller

Mute swans

White feral geese + 1 Canada

Coots

Moorhens

Red buntings 2+

Blue tit

Great tit

Wren

Song thrush

Corvid roost     (jackdaws+magpies)

Great crested grebe

The bittern made me wait into failing light. Off it took from the reed bed at 6.20pm. It was quite a sight flying over the causeway.

It circled once calling occasionally, but on the 2nd circle it flew from view eastwards out of sight. Great view in my bino's

of the bittern and Jupiter in the same field of view - now that probably wont happen again to me in my lifetime!

 



-- Edited by DAVID KENNEDY on Thursday 28th of February 2019 03:27:54 PM

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8.35 to 10.50, 36 species recorded including:

  • Kingfisher 1
  • Reed Bunting 8
  • Shoveler 2
  • Mute Swan 3
  • Teal 15+
  • Great Crested Grebe 2
  • Little Grebe 2
  • Willow Tit 1
  • Snipe 2
  • Buzzard 1


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5.35pm with Dan Brown. The Bittern showed well roosting in the reeds (same spot as in 2017).

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Today 15.2.19 in 15min visit:

Tufted ducks

Coots

Black headed gulls - plenty

Mute swans 3

Feral white geese 5

Lesser BB gulls 2

Great crested grebe 1

Goosander M+F

Blue tits

Greenfinch

Jackdaws

Crows



-- Edited by DAVID KENNEDY on Friday 15th of February 2019 01:38:30 PM

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Posted as a favour to Steve Almond: 

8.40 to 10.05 32 species recorded in total.

Including, Mute Swans 3, Bittern 1, Water Rail 1 (heard then seen briefly in the South West reedbed Markland Hill side),Teal 8 and Snipe 4. 



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late post from yesterday

140 Black Headed Gulls
3 Common Gull
1 Great Black-backed Gull
5 Mute Swans
3 Snipe
25 Tufted Duck
1 Great Crested Grebe
5 Goosander
Mixed flock of Willow, Great, Blue and Long-tailed tit
3 Bullfinch
8 Greenfinch


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9.00 - 10.00 this morning after a visit to High Rid

2 Grey Heron
8 Snipe
4 Mute Swans
8 Goosander
2 Canada Geese
35 Black Headed Gulls
1 Common Gull
3 Cormorants
1 Buzzard
15 Tufted Duck
4 House Sparrows
1 Teal

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Paul Thompson


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8.20am to 9.25am. 32 species recorded including:

  • Mistle Thrush 4
  • Mute Swans 4
  • Cormorants 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 2
  • Goosander 1
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Long-tailed Tits 30+
  • Willow Tits 4
  • Bullfinch 1
  • Snipe 1
  • Greenfinch 5
  • Coal Tit 1


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8.40am to 10.35am. 34 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swans 4
  • Greenfinch 12+
  • Kingfishers 2
  • Cormorant 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 2
  • Lesser Black-backed Gulls 2
  • Redwings 8
  • Lesser Redpolls 8
  • Common Gull 1
  • Goosander 1
  • Fieldfares 17
  • Kestrel 1
  • Snipe 1


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8.50am to 10.25am. 30 species recorded including:

  • Lesser Redpoll 20+
  • Cormorant 1
  • Mute Swans 4
  • Great Crested Grebe 1
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
  • Redwings 6
  • Greenfinch 6
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Snipe 1
  • Grey Wagtail 1

 



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8.40am to 10.25am. 31 species recorded including:

  • Greenfinch 20+
  • Mute Swans 4
  • Common Gull 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 2
  • Redwings 4
  • Water Rail 1
  • Bullfinch 1
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Kestrel 1

 



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8.40am to 10.20am. 34 species recorded including:

  • Long-tailed Tit 1
  • Goosanders 6 (5 redheads and 1 ault male)
  • Mute Swans 4
  • Great Crested Grebes 2
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
  • Water Rail 1 (in a different location that my 2 sighting earlier this week, this time behind the reedbed on the east of the causeway approach path on the A58 side)
  • Willow Tits 3
  • Kestrel 1
  • Fieldfares 25 (flying over)
  • Shoveler 1
  • Snipe 2
  • Pink-footed Geese 102


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9.35am to 10.55am. 29 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swans 4
  • Teal 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 2
  • Redwing 1
  • Willow Tit 1
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
  • Rook
  • Song Thrush 1
  • Bullfinch 3

 



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8.35am to 10.05am. 32 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swans 4
  • Great Crested Grebes 3
  • Shoveler 1
  • Reed Buntings 2
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Teal 1
  • Water Rail 1 (as with Monday's sighting)
  • Jay 1
  • Snipe 1
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
  • Greenfinch 3

 



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8.45am to 10.20am. 32 species recorded including:

  • Greenfinch 6
  • Mute Swans 4
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Teal 1
  • Water Rail 1 ( observed behind the reedbed on the A58 side, west of the causeway)
  • Redwings 2
  • Long-tailed Tits 3
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
  • Kingfisher 1 (spotted flying to the island & perching in a hawthorn )
  • Snipe 1 (seen on the Markland Hill Lane side near Ripon Ave.) 


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8.50am to 10.25am. 36 species recorded including:

  • Redwings 8
  • Long-tailed Tits 30+
  • Willow Tits 5
  • Mistle Thrush 2
  • Mute Swans 2
  • Jay 1
  • Lesser Redpoll 12
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Grey Wagtail 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Reed Bunting 1
  • Snipe 1
  • Greenfinch 3
  • Teal 2

No sightings of any Kingfishers or Cormorants today.



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8.20am to 9.30am. 27 species recorded including:

  • Cormorant 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Mute Swans 2
  • Kingfisher 1 (3 sightings could be the same or different birds )
  • Grey Wagtail 1
  • Coal Tits 2
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
  • Snipe 1
  • Greenfinch 2

 



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8.40am to 9.35am. 28 species recorded including:

  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Mute Swans 2
  • Dunnocks 3
  • House Sparrows 15+
  • Robins 8
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Greenfinch 1
  • Cormorants 2
  • Rook 1
  • Willow Tit 1
  • Kestrel 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Grey Wagtail 1


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8.50 to 10.25am. 32 species recorded including:

  • Greenfinch 2
  • Reed Buntings 2
  • Cormorants 2
  • Mute Swans 2
  • Kingfishers 2
  • Wigeon 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 5
  • Calling Willow Tits 2
  • Song Thrush 2
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Coal Tit 1
  • Rook 1 (Flying over)
  • Snipe 1


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8.55am to 10.25am. 33 species recorded including:

  • Song Thrush 2
  • Bullfinch 1
  • Mute Swans 2
  • Shoveler 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Chiffchaff 1
  • Cormorant 1
  • Wigeon 2
  • Goldcrest 1
  • Pink-footed Geese 90 (also posted on county Pink-footed goose thread)
  • Brent Geese c50 (heading North-West)
  • Reed Bunting 1


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8.50am to 10.15am. 26 species recorded including:

  • Cormorants 3
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Mute Swans 2
  • Wigeon 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Long-tailed Tits 10
  • Sparrowhawk 1
  • Coal Tits 2


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8.55am to 10.40am. 33 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swans 2 (a second bird arrived on Tuesday 9/10/2018)
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Cormorants 2
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Willow Tit 1
  • Long-tailed Tits 9
  • Mediterranean Gull 1
  • Little Gull 1 (a large flock of Black-headed gulls flew in during this visit and the Little and Mediterranean Gull were with these)
  • Shoveler 1
  • Lapwings 12 (flying over the fields to the west)

 



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8.45am to 10.20am. 29 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Pochard 1
  • Squealing Water Rail (heard only)
  • Cormorant 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 3
  • Grey Wagtails 2
  • Coal Tit 1
  • Long-tailed Tits 12+
  • Greenfinch 2

No sighting of any Teal, Shoveler or Kingfisher today.



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9.00am to 10.15am. 30 species recorded including:

  • Greenfinch 3
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Cormorants 3
  • Willow Tits 2
  • Chiffchaff 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Shoveler 1
  • Teal 2
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Grey Wagtail 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Pink-footed Geese 37


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8.45am to 10.15am. 34 species recorded including:

  • Long-tailed Tits 4
  • Coal Tit 1
  • Goldcrest 1
  • Cormorants 3
  • Calling Water Rail 1
  • Shoveler 1
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Willow Tits 3
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Teal 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Nuthatch 1


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8.50am to 10.20am. 30 species recorded including:

  • Mistle Thrush 1
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Cormorants 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Jays 4
  • Teal 2
  • Greenfinch 12+
  • Willow Warbler 1
  • Goldcrest 1

 



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8.30am to 10.10am. 31 species recorded including:

  • Cormorants 3
  • Shoveler 1
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Greenfinch 12+
  • Chiffchaffs 2
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Long-tailed Tits 2
  • Grey Wagtail 1
  • Calling Bullfinch 1

 



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8.50am to 10.30am. 27 species recorded including:

  • Pink-footed Geese 48 (also posted under county Pink-Footed geese sightings)
  • Cormorants 3
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Shoveler 1
  • Chiffchaffs 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Willow Tit 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Buzzard 1
  • Calling Grey Wagtail 1
  • Teal 4
  • Kingfisher 1 (Photo attached long-range view of the bird on the island)

 



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8.40am to 10.25am. 34 species recorded including:

  • Grey Heron 1
  • Greenfinches 15+
  • Jays 2
  • House Martins 15+
  • Cormorants 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Shoveler 1
  • Reed Bunting 1
  • Calling Willow Tit 1
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Teal 2
  • Coal Tit 1

 



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8.25am to 10.05am. 33 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 1
  • Chiffchaffs 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Cormorants 3
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Shoveler 1
  • Teal 4
  • Calling Jay 1
  • Goldcrests 2
  • Mistle Thrushes 4
  • Bullfinch 1
  • Grey Wagtail 1

 



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8.40am to 9.10am. Did not make a full list, highlights:

  • Kingfisher 1 (On the island)
  • Shoveler 1


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8.45am to 10.25am. 32 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Cormorants 3
  • Teal 1
  • House Martins 25+
  • Jays 3
  • Bullfinches 4
  • Reed Bunting 1
  • Chiffchaff 1
  • Shoveler 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1

 



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8.45am to 9.45am. 27 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 1
  • Greenfinches 6
  • Singing Chiffchaff 1
  • Pied Wagtail 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Cormorants 2
  • Bullfinch 1
  • Calling Jay 1

 



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8.35am to 9.50am. 28 species recorded including:

  • Willow Tits 2
  • Cormorants 3
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Jays 3
  • Grey Wagtail 1
  • Singing Chiffchaff 1

 



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8.40am to 10.10am. 32 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 1
  • Cormorants 3
  • Reed Buntings 2
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Chiffchaffs 2
  • Jay 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Goldcrest 1
  • Greenfinches 3
  • Blackcap 2
  • Willow Warbler 1
  • Wren 1
  • Coal Tit 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 3

 



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8.30am to 9.50am. 23 species recorded including:

  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Cormorants 3
  • Blackcap 1
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Snipe 1
  • Kingfisher 1


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8.35am to 9.55am. 29 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 1
  • Cormorant 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • House Martins 40+
  • Blackcap 1
  • Willow Warblers 5
  • Song Thrush 1
  • Calling Willow Tits 2
  • Calling Bullfinch 1


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9.05am to 10.30am. 29 species recorded including:

  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Reed Warbler 1
  • House Martins 50+
  • Kestrel 1
  • Willow Warblers 2
  • Teal 3
  • Chiffchaff 1
  • Mute Swan 1


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8.20am to 9.45am. 26 species recorded including:

  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Cormorant 1
  • Bullfinch 1
  • Sparrowhawk 1
  • Willow Warbler 1
  • House Martin 1 (heard only due to low cloud etc.)


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8.40am to 10.10am. 27 species recorded including:

  • Coal Tit 1
  • House Martins 50+
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Grey Wagtail 1
  • Long-tailed Tits 5
  • Calling Bullfinch 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 4

 



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8.40am to 10.05am 32 species recorded including:

  • Grey Heron 1
  • House Martins 50+
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 4
  • Spotted Flycatcher 1
  • Chiffchaff 1
  • Willow Warbler 1
  • Blackcap 1
  • Coal Tit 1


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8.45am to 10.10am. 23 species recorded including:

  • Kingfisher 1
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Long-tailed Tits 6+
  • Great Crested Grebes 5

 



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8.45am to 10.00am. 26 species recorded including:

  • Cormorants 2
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 5
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Common Terns3
  • Calling Willow Tit 1
  • Calling Bullfinches 2
  • Chiffchaffs 2
  • House Martins 20+

 



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9.00am to 10.30am: 27 species recorded including:

  • Grey Herons 2
  • Mute Swan 1
  • Chiffchaffs 2
  • Blackcap 1
  • Willow Warblers 2
  • Great Crested Grebes 5
  • Reed Buntings 2
  • Common Terns3
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
  • Calling Willow Tit 1
  • Swallow 1


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10.25am to 11.25am. 26 species recorded including:

  • Mute Swan 1
  • House Martins 15+
  • Reed Bunting 1
  • Grey Heron 1
  • Great Crested Grebes 6
  • Common Terns 3
  • Willow Tits 2
  • Sparrowhawk 1

 



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