22nd

Flashes:
Curlew (calling), Meadow Pipit (1)

Feeding station:
Willow Tit (2), Goldcrest (2), Treecreeper (1), GS Woodpecker (1 male), Goldfinch (2)

Log book record

18th: Stonechat (1 from the flashes hide), Redwing (c.15 in hedgerow along path to flashes hide)

Main pool

4 Little Grebe. A kingfisher in reeds opposite hide fishing and in same place for about 20 minutes.

Buzzard

Flashes/Ross's Rough: Curlew (4), Kestrel (1), Sparrowhawk (1), Meadow Pipit (1)

Woods: Willow Tit (2), Goldfinch (4), Green Woodpecker (2), GS Woodpecker (1 m)

Main Pool: Tufted Duck (5), Little Grebe (2), Water Rail (1 in the channel)

River Pool: Shoveler (4), Teal, Little Grebe (1)

The Scrape: Grey Wagtail (1), Buzzard (1)

Red Admiral (1)

Curlew

Flashes: Curlew (5), Meadow Pipit (3), Skylark (1), Buzzard (1), Green Woodpecker (1)

The scrape: Little Grebe (2), Buzzard (1), Grey Heron (1), Water Rail (1 calling), Grey Wagtail (along river)

River Pool: Little Grebe (2), Shoveler (2), Teal, Water Rail (1 calling)

Main Pool: Water Rail (1 calling), Little Grebe (2), Tufted Duck (3)

Feeding Station: Bullfinch (1m), Willow Tit (2), Goldfinch (1)

Woods: Goldcrest (4, at least 1 juv. still being fed by adult bird), Jay (3)

Nest Boxes

The Johns cleaned out the boxes last week and of the 30 we had put up 26 showed good signs of having been used. One at the feeding station had been used as a roost, 2 others had a little nest material but it was not a nest and a robin box somewhere near the car park is lost!
87% usage is the best year we have had.

Wet Wet Wet

Rain overnight has flooded the river.

Flashes: Teal (130), Wigeon (7), Curlew (calling, but grass too long to see), LBB Gull (1), Meadow Pipit (5), Grey Wagtail (1), Pied Wagtail (1), Buzzard (1), Kestrel (1) , Common Snipe (1)

Car Park: Meadow Pipit (7 in the field), Bullfinch (2)

Woods: GS Woodpecker (1 f), Goldfinch (2), LT Tit (12), Willow Tit (2)

Railway Bridge: Mute Swan (6), Lapwing (13), Canada Goose (69), Wigeon (5), House Martin (1)

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted flycatcher (1), Curlew (6), Siskin (2), Lesser Redpoll (1), Nuthatch (1), Buzzard (2), Sparrowhawk (1 f, almost had a green woodpecker), Goldcrest (1), Kestrel (1), GS Woodpecker (1), Bullfinch (3), Little Grebe (4 main pool, 1 river pool), Tufted Duck (4), Teal (1), Canada Goose (8), Mute Swan (2), Meadow Pipit (1), Stock Dove (2), Goldfinch (2), Willow Tit (2)

Migrant Hawker (2), Southern Hawker (1), Common Darter (4), Ruddy Darter (1)