60+ Ducks

18:45>19:15, 12 Degrees. Full Moon.

I Was talking to Tim this morning he said he had 80 + Ducks on Reservoir one night last week.

so i set of tonight and got there at 18:45 ,just getting dark.

8 Goosander on the Reservoir

2 Tufted

as night fell Mallards kept dropping in, in 4 and 6s when i left there was over 50 Mallards on the reservoir .

also 7 Lesser Black Back Gulls

Linnets, Lapwing

10:30>14:00, 16 Degrees, Sunny Intervals.

240 Lapwing North Shore

16 Snipe

47 BH Gulls

1 Common Gull

1 Tufted Duck Female

1 Gt Crested Grebe

4 Teal

4 Goosanders

60+ Linnets on Wall leading up to reservoir

40 + Meadow Pipits

Lapwing

10:45>12:15, 14 Degress, Showers.

• Counted 248 Lapwing on North shore

• 3 Teal
• Pair of Tufted Duck

11 Snipe

65 BH Gulls

1 Grey Heron

Golden Plover

08:40>12:00. 16 Degrees, Calm, Sunny.

2 Golden Plover in with 60+ Lapwing

18 Snipe Counted along North shore

65 BH Gulls

1 LBB Gull

1 Common Gull

1 Grey Heron

5 Teal

1 Female Tufted Duck

1 Gt Crested Grebe

Another success for Ringstone

09:00>12:30, 19 Degrees light wind, sunny.

Grey Partridge with up to 6 young in west fields 200 Metres down from Keeper's House.

1 Whinchat

2 Stonechat

1 Robin

• On Reservoir

6 LBB Gulls

32 BH Gulls

1 Grey Heron

1 Gt Crested Grebe

43 Lapwing

40+ Meadow Pipits

4 Linnets

1 Grey Wagtail at inflow

5 Pied Wagtails on South walls of reservoir

50+ Swallows > W

8 Snipe

50 Finches at Feeding station

10:30>12:30, 14 Degrees, Gail Force Wind.

33 Goldfinch and 20+ Greenfinch on Nyger next to feeding station

• On Reservoir

1 LBB Gull

24 BH Gulls

31 Lapwing

8 Snipe on North Shore

Green Lane

1 Female Melin

Fields to west of green lane

2 Stonechats

1 Whinchat

1 Little Owl

Snipe

08:30> 09:30> 11:30>13:30 . 14 Degrees. Strong west windand Shower.

Good Numbers of Snipe returning up to 25 on shoreline and in west and East pools.

5 Goosanders

1 Gt Crested Grebe

33 Black Headed Gulls

32 lapwing

Whinchat/Stonechat/Wheatear

08:40>14:00, 17 Degrees, Sunny.

2 Stonechat in West Fields with

1 Whinchat.

Wheatear on pile of rubble in North Field.

Grey Wagtail in Run off next to Green Lane

2 Coal Tits in Valley down Green Lane

• on Reservoir.

2 Teal

1 Cormorant

1 Gt Crested Grebe

70 Lapwing

6 Snipe

60 + BH Gull

2 Common Gull

1 Lesser Black Backed Gull

6 Pied Wagtail

2 Reed Bunting

4 Skylark

6 Mallard

8 House Martins

12 Swallow >W

6 Linnet

1 Kestrel over west Bank

20+ Meadow Pipits

1 Wren on West Wall

30+ Starlings

8 Carrion Crow

4 Magpie

• On Feeders

14 Goldfinch

4 Blue Tits

2 Robin

3 Dunnock

1 Blackbird

3 Chaffinch

LESSER WHITETHROAT

Reports of a Lesser Whitethroat just up from the reservoir near Clockface Quarry.

I went up to see if i could get it but dipped out.

1 Chiffchaff, 5 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Gt Tit and Swallows over head. I Walked back down to where the Redstart was seen and got 2 Stonechats and 1 Whinchat

in the paddock.

4 Shelduck 11 Wigeon

4 Shelduck this AM, 11 Wigeon 2.00 pm.

2 Stonechat

90 Lapwing

4 Snipe

100+ BH Gulls

2 LBB Gulls

1 Grey Heron

2 Cormorants

1 Gt Crested Grebe

Reports of Common Tern and Redstart yesterday evening

Redstart, Chiffchaff, Knot

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08:00> 12:35, 14 Degrees, light west wind.

Had reports from John W @ 7:40 that stonechat were showing well 200 meters down from water works house.

Got to where I thought they would be but nothing doing . Then got a flash of red tail feather in the old Paddock about 150 meters from the road. My first Redstart at ringstone , had it for about 30 seconds , ran back to car for camera . It had moved to elderberry so i quickly took 3 shots . The was the last i saw of it, i didn't see it fly .

Then came the sound of Stonechats ,2 of of them on the drystone walls leading down to Greenlane. A lot of birds moving mainly Meadow Pipits up to 40 in fields and on walls. I walked back down to the House and in the last big bush before Cliffords 2 Chiffchaff Calling and flitting around. Then 4 Willow Warblers along the inflow flying up towards the quarry.

I Went down to the Hide but only 2 snipe and about 60 BackHeaded Gulls on the reservoir.

Went to get a coffee and sat at the feeding station. 8 Lapwing flew in with 2 Dunlin and another wader i couldn't get, it split from the others and went further up towards the hide. I Set my scope up and just got about a minute of a Knot in view before it went into west pool.

A very good day at Ringstone edge

24 Wigeon Monday 11 September

24 Wigeon on reservoir at 3:00pm

Also 2 Snipe

130+ BH Gulls

1 Grey Heron

1 Cormorant

1 Gt Cested Grebe

Curlew, Wheatear

11:30>12:45, 19 Degrees, Blue Skies.

4 Curlew in North Field

1 Wheatear

13 Lapwing

270 Bh Gulls

8 Common Gulls

3 Lbb Gulls

30 Swallows Over Reservoir

8+ House Martins

3 Snipe

4 Mallard

2 Teal on East Pool

1 Grey Heron on East Pool

23 Linnets near Farm House

4 Reed Bunting

1 Gt Crested Grebe

200 + Starling North Field

3 Pied Wagtail

1 Little Owl

1 Kestrel

2 Wrens

10 Rooks in East Field

8 Carrion Crow North Field

Blue Tit, Gt Tit, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Robin , Blackbird, Chaffinch,Pheasant, Magpie on Feeders.

31 Species in all, nice to see the sun again

Friday,Saturday,Sunday, Monday

Weather appalling, none stop rain and wind, very quite.

over 70 BH Gulls on all 4 days, 1 Male Merlin on Friday near hide. 4 Snipe on Sunday