1 male Common Scoter this evening. Also 1 Great Crested Grebe and 5 Goosander.

2 Curlew, 1 Common Sandpiper, and 1 Dunlin.

1 Swift, 12 Swallow and 2 Sand Martin.

Lunchtime stroll

Cormorant

2 Oystercatcher and a youngster

Lapwing

Lesser Black-backed and Black-headed Gulls

House Martin, Swallow and Swift

Kestrel

Pied Wagtail

Meadow Pipit

Skylark

5 Oystercatcher, 8 Lapwing and 1 Common Sandpiper this morning. Also 10 Sand Martin and 3 Swallow feeding in the Lee of the walls, and 3 Linnet.

A few birds of interest during a late afternoon circuit:

20 Goosander and 1 Great Crested Grebe on the water.

3 Oystercatcher, 1 Curlew, 5 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper and 1 Dunlin.

5+ Swallow.

1 Grasshopper Warbler.

At least 8 Wheatear and 3 male Stonechat- suggestive of 3 breeding pairs.

1 White Wagtail.

Pair Linnet.

Single Yellow Wagtail still present on south bank (11:30 hrs) flew down to overflow culvert and then to sheep pens.

Regards Brian.

My first Wheatear of the year during an afternoon visit. It spent a few minutes on the pump house roof below the eastern dam before disappearing. Also 3 Goosander, 16 Lapwing, 2 Curlew and a group of 5 Skylark.

Braved the weather this afternoon 21/1 16:00-17:00

Gull roost
Black headed c 2,500
Common gull c 30
Great black backed gull 2 ads
Lesser black backed gull 3 ad 6 imms
Herring gull c 20 ads 8 imms

Goosander 6 m 10 f
Lapwing 4 braving it on spit

Wheatear along the south bank this evening and 2 Stonechat and a Robin on the north side. 3 Goldeneye and a Great crested Grebe on the reservoir. 

Green Woodpecker and a Little Owl calling from Two Owls cottage area this afternoon.

2 Skylark and 2 Snipe over the reservoir heading south.

Singlw Wheatear and 2 Stonechat on the north side and a Blue and Great Tit below Ashworth View.

45 Pink-footed Geese over heading East and a White Wagtail on the south bank

140+ Lapwing on the north spit and c10 Reed Bunting along the north shore

A Great Spotted Woodpecker flew west over the reservoir and a Green Woodpecker calling from Two Owls Cottage early this morning .

3 Wheatear and a White Wagtail amongst the many Meadow Pipits and Pied Wagtails around the reservoir .

120+ Goosander present at first light .

2 Great Tit, 2 Chiffchaff and 2 Stonechat on the north side this morning .

The regular Yellow-legged Gull paid a brief visit departing east at 0800.

Steady trickle of Skylark and Chaffinch over the reservoir all heading south.

White Wagtail on the south wall

2 Chiffchaff along the north side below Owd Bett's first thing this morning .

2 Wheatear, 2 Stonechat , and many Pied Wagtails and Meadow Pipits around the reservoir .

4 Siskin, 6 Chaffinch and 7 Skylark  moved south over the reservoir .

Green Woodpecker calling from Two Owls again at 1st light .

Excellent early morning at AMR in light rain . 

3 Chiffchaff arrived overnight on the North shore spit and 2 Coot on the reservoir are both good birds for up here .

A juv female Peregrine was perched on the south wall and allowed unusually close views . A really bad time to realise your camera battery was flat and couldn't tell if it was ringed or not .

3 Tufted Duck on the water and good numbers of Meadow Pipits and Pied Wagtails still around the south bank. 

A single Golden Plover flew over high calling heading west .

Had a reply re colour ringed Black-headed Gull J7J9 that was at the reservoir recently ..

It was ringed as a 3cy+ male at Smetsaddammen, Oslo in Norway in March 2012 and has been recorded many times during summer months in that area . It winters in UK in London around Hyde Park/Kensington area  .

It was recorded on 9th July 2020 at the same spot in Oslo and took 17 days maximum to get to AMR, presumably en route to winter in London again.

Mediterranean Gull and a Redshank on the north shore this evening

Adult Yellow-legged Gull present again this morning along with a small number of Lesser Black-backed Gulls. 

A Jay was by the pumphouse on Ashworth Rd and single Wheatear along south bank. 40+ Pied Wagtails along the south wall. 

A Hobby flushed all the Lapwing and Black-headed Gulls off the grass at Cross Gate and landed on the lawn briefly before flying off west early this morning.

A Great crested Grebe was also present this morning as was a Little Owl near the Pumphouse off Ashworth Road. 

2nd Summer Yellow-legged Gull was on the south side spit with c30 Lesser Black-backed Gulls before departing onto sheepfields near Croston Close(Lancs). There has been a similar aged bird regularly around the Turn Village/Scout Moor area in Lancs but this appears to be a different bird when comparing photographs. 

Whinchat on the east wall this morning and a single Wheatear amongst many Meadow Pipit on the south wall .

Highlights from an evening circuit:

24 Goosander and 3 Greylag with the Canada Geese.

104 Lapwing.

2 Buzzard and 2 Kestrel.

4 Swift and 1 Wheatear.

Mediterranean Gull in with Black-headed Gulls this afternoon on the north side and a Juv Peregrine spent 20 minutes causing havoc around the reservoir. before departing south. 

Highlights from a morning circuit by bike:

42 Lapwing from Ashworth Road.

6 Swift, 25 Sand Martin.

A reeling Grasshopper Warbler in 3 places along the north side but it could have been the same bird following me around? 2 Chiffchaff.