Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Whinchats

15 Degrees , Strong West Wind, 15:00>17:00
2 Whinchats on North Wall
110 B H Gulls
6 Skylark North Field
2 Snipe North Shore
1 Female Mallard 5 young East Pool
1 Gt Crested Grebe
Reports of 3 Oystercatcher this AM on West wall

Friday, August 25, 2006

yesterday

12:00>13:30, 18 Degrees Sunny,
Very Quite.
1 Kestrel, 1 Gt Crested Grebe, 16 BH Gulls.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Wheatears yesterday

14:00>15:00, Sunny 18 Degrees.
up to 8 Wheatears on walls around reservoir.
over 40 Meadow Pipits
1 Gt Crested Grebe
10 Bh Gulls
1 Herring Gull
1 Teal off East Pool
West Pool has some water back in it.
Little owl
Kestrel
On Feeders
Blue tits, Gt Tit, Dunnock , Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Linnet, Blackbird, Starling

Friday, August 18, 2006

Pheasants and Finches

09:30>10:30, 18 Degrees Mist and Showers
Pulled up to the feeding station and had 1 Male Pheasant and 2 females feeding underneath.
Up to forty finches coming in to feed, Chaffinch, Greenfinch , Goldfinch, Linnet and 2 Willow Warblers fliting around on the floor.
Reservoir full now, no shoreline left.1 Gt Crested Grebe
4 Mallards

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Mallards and Skylarks

08:30>10:00 ,18 Degrees, Misty.
  • On Reservoir
22 Mallards
83 Canada Geese
1 Peregrine Falcon
10 Skylark moving Between reservoir and East Fields
20+House Martins
1 Gt Crested Grebe

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Shelduck / Wheatear

08:00> 10:30 , 13 Degrees, Showers and Sunny Spells.
  • On Reservoir

6 Shelduck

2 Wheatear on East Shore

2 Lrp

85 Canada Goose

1 Greylag Goose

24 BH Gulls

2 LBB Gulls

1 Common Gull

1 Gt Crested Grebe

  • On Feeders

8 Linnets

16 Greenfinch mostly Juvenile

3 Dunnock

Pair Blackbirds

Blue Tit

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Greylag Goose

08:30>11:30, 14 Degrees, Cloudy.
80+ Canada Goose on Reservoir
1 Greylag in with them the first for me this year at ringstone.
6 BH Gulls
4 Lrp
1 Gt Crested Grebe
50+ Linnets on wall up to reservoir

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Gulls



08:30>09:30, 15 Degrees, strong west wind.
  • On Reservoir
1 Gt Black backed Gull
2 Common Gulls
22 Black Headed Gulls all on North Shore.
5 Lrps
2 Dunlin
1 Oystercatcher
1 Ringed Plover
  • On Feeder

22 Starlings

11 Greenfinch

4 Dunnock

2 Blue Tits

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Wheatears and Dunlin

Tuesday 2:30>3:30, 17 Degrees light wind.
4 Juvenile Wheatear bathing on east Shore.
2 Ringed Plover
5 Lrp
1 Gt Crested Grebe
Male pheasant on feeding Station

Monday, August 07, 2006

Pheasants and Peregrine

07:55> 09:30. 17 Degrees, Sunny.
  • 1 Juvenile Peregrine chasing Gulls on North Shore
  • 1 Ringed Plover
10 LRP
16 Lapwing
32 Canada Geese
1 white domestic Duck.
  • Feeding Station

Pair of Pheasants

Pied Wagtail

Willow Warbler

Blue Tit, Chaffinch,Greenfinch,Starling,Blackbird,Wren,Linnet,Goldfinch,Robin and Dunnock

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Plovers



0:845>13:00 , Fog moving East, 18 degrees.
Fog over M62 as I turned up this morning , it gradually moved towards res .
At one point for about 10 mins it covered the reservoir.
4 Ringed Plover landed straight away harassed by Lrps
Followed by 8 Golden Plover calling over head.
3 Lapwing on North Shore flushed by
1 juv Peregrine who stayed for 5 minutes.
4 Teal
12 Bh Gulls
4 Reed Bunting
Feeder busy with Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Linnet, Goldfinch ,Robin, Blackbird, Dunnock and Blue Tits

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Sanderling/ Green woodpecker

09:20>11:20, Calm . 17 degrees.
1 Sanderling in middle of north shore
3 Dunlin
1 Redshank
9 Lrp
1 Grey Heron
8 BH Gulls
1 Gt Crested Grebe
4 Mallard
  • Green Lane
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Green Woodpecker flew down valley
  • Feeding Station

18 Greenfinch

5Goldfinch

1 Robin

4 Dunnock

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Green Sandpiper


11:30>12:45, Strong West winds Heavy showers, 18 Degrees.
1 Green Sandpiper on north Shore
7 LRPs
6 BH Gulls
4 Lapwing
2 Mallards