Yellow Wagtail nice bright male on the spinners Still present 9.30am

This afternoon

Pied Wagtail 23
Grey Wagtail 2
Oystercatcher 2
Littel Grebe 1
Teal 4

1 Water Rail, showed briefly twice & heard, in reeds west of the main path
2 Shoveler (male & female)
2 Gadwall (male & female)
14 Teal
2 Little Grebe
1 Common Buzzard
4 Tufted Duck
c50 Pied Wagtail

2-2.30pm

18 teal
4 shoveler
11 gadwall
5 coot
1 buzzard
1 willow tit

14/01/2013 - 12-1.30pm, mostly frozen over so wildfowl hidden on unfrozen pools at the rear but could hear good numbers of Teal calling and also from deep inside Danewell Wood:

1 Water Rail
2+ Teals
1 Buzzard
3 Coots
1 Moorhen
c40 Black-headed Gull
c50 Pied Wagtails
2 Meadow Pipits
1 Siskin
1 Reed Bunting

01/01/2013 - 7.00-8.30am:

1 Barn Owl - hunting the rough grassland to the north of the pools, made for a great start to 2013
1 Water Rail - although there is an excess of habitat, this is the first i've had here
8 Gadwalls
c100 Teal
1 Common Snipe
c20 Pied Wagtails
c20 Linnets
3 Reed Buntings
1 Lesser Redpoll
1 Siskin

Regarding the "Collared Dove 4" reported by Tim, there were 19 together in the last paddock on the right before the flooded paddock about 11.00. By the time I walked up and down the flooded part only four remained. I've not seen a flocking of Collared Doves like this before....

21/10/2012 - 5pm:

11 Shovelers - 8 drakes, 3 ducks
c20 Teals
1 Little Grebe
1 Common Snipe
1+ Fieldfare
1 Redwing
9 Meadow Pipits
1 Grey Wagtail
10+ Pied Wagtails

5.20-5.30pm - quick 10 min visit this evening whilst cycling past:

1 Chiffchaff
10 Shoveler
4 Gadwall
1 Little Grebe

late post for yesterday:
2 Chiffchaff - including 1 bird singing briefly

-- Edited by Steven Nelson on Thursday 4th of October 2012 09:42:06 PM

20/09/2012 - 1pm: 1 Green Sandpiper

1 Green Sandpiper
2 Snipe
9 Lapwing

Today

1 Snipe
38 Lapwing

61 years ago today...

Lesser Yellowlegs a juvenile female 8th to 9th September 1951, when it died, now at Manchester Museum

-- Edited by Pete Hines on Saturday 8th of September 2012 09:20:47 PM

1 Green Sandpiper
1 Snipe
2 adult 2 juv Little Grebe
3 Lapwing
plus usuals

Today

2 Green Sandpiper

60 years ago today

1 Marsh Sandpiper 10th - 13th august 1952

We live in hope

1 Green Sandpiper
2 Lapwing
6 Shoveler

15/07/2012 - 9am, water levels high:

2 Gadwalls - only one brood visible with 5 growing young
2 Teals - ecl.drk and fem
2 Green Sandpiers - spent some of the time swimming like phalaropes as not much mud left
1 Lapwing
100+ House Martins
c50 Sand Martins
c20 Swifts
1 Willow Warbler
3 Reed Warblers - including one taking food to nest in broom, not the expected phragmites
1 Grasshopper Warbler

2-30pm

2 Green Sandpipers with a hint of a third
Some Little Grebe
Grey Heron
Swifts
House Martin and nest
Tufties
Reed Bunting
Lapwing landing
Oystercatcher flying over






-- Edited by Geoff Walton on Thursday 5th of July 2012 09:24:47 AM

02/07/2012 - 1pm:

2 Green Sandpipers
6 Sand Martins
150+ House Martins
2 Swallows
c40 Common Swifts
plus the usual

1 Green Sandpiper this morning at 8.10am but no sign this evening at 5.45pm

Also this evening:

pair Bullfinches
1 Teal - male
Gadwall with brood of 7
1 Little Grebe
1 singing Sedge Warbler
1 singing Reed Warbler
1 singing Willow Warbler
most ducks moulting into eclipse now

Spent several hours around sewage works and carrington moss from approx 10am

Had 2 green sandpipers. As I arrived a bird took off and as it went up a second slightly more dishevelled bird went up with it. They looked to be flying off but circled for some time, with the less smart bird landing back on pool. Cannot say where other went as they were too far apart to follow both birds and I only stayed on one which came down.

Had great view of grasshopper warbler, which sat on an exposed branch for some 10 mins reeling away.

also
16 swift
Sand and house martins over sewage works, too difficult to count.
6 Swallows
several blackcap, inc a pair
several common whitethroat, inc one carrying fecal sac
2 grey heron
reed bunting
reed warbler (h)

Also a possible fly over hobby. when close bird was only a silhouette and went away very quickly and dropped behind trees so cannot be sure,


-- Edited by Paul Dewey on Thursday 21st of June 2012 04:53:19 PM

4.45pm-5.20pm
No sign of the Green Sandpiper on my way past tonight

But main highlights amongst the usuals:

Garden Warbler singing - managed a brief view
Female Gadwall with brood of 9 young
2 brood of Mallard (8 + 5)
pair Canada Geese + 1 gosling
1 adult Lapwing
2 singing Reed Warbler
3 Tufted Duck (2m,1f)
1 Displaying Greenfinch
1 Grey Heron
Plenty of all 4 Hirundines
2 Blackcaps - males

Green Sandpiper still present this evening (19.45) on the second pond.
1 Lapwing, no young.
6 Gadwall, 1 Teal, 1 Shoveler.
A number of mallards, coots and moorhen with young.
2 Little Grebes
2 Whitethroat
Reed warbler and grasshopper warbler heard, not seen.
1 Kestrel
1 Pied wagtail, pheasant and numerous house martins and swallows by the stables.

14/06/2012 - 10am, water levels still high, little mud but good for breeding waterfowl:

3 Little Grebes - plus 3 young, one with each adult
2 Shovelers - drakes
2 Teals - drakes
6 Gadwalls - no broods as yet, males in eclipse already
10 Mallards - plus 13 young, 10 of which were being fed by a hybrid domestic adult
2 Lapwings - no sign of the youngster
1 Garden Warbler - been much more elusive this year
1 Grasshopper Warbler
1 Reed Warbler - holding territory in willow and elder
2 Reed Buntings
1 Linnet
1 Yellowhammer

05/06/2012 - Juv Lapwing still present. All the usual species on the pools including 13 Gadwalls. 1 Gropper reeling in the scrub to the NE of the pools. Best sight was of 150+ House Martins hawking over the filter beds with lesser numbers of Swallow, Swift and 1 Sand Martin. One of the biggest flocks of House Martins i've ever seen.