Priorslee Lake: 06:25 – 09:20
Trench Lock Pool: 09:30 – 09:50 // 10:45 – 11:15
Trench Middle Pool: 09:55 – 10:40
4°C > 7°C: Overcast start with light rain showers: clearer for a while with some breaks: then dull and misty until c.10:30 when cleared again. Mainly light N wind. Good visibility but moderate for a while.
Sunrise: 07:51 GMT
Priorslee Lake: 06:25 – 09:20
(163rd visit of the year)
Bird notes:
- an unringed adult Mute Swan flew in at 08:40 to join the new resident: did not appear to be welcome
- not sure where the geese on the lake came from: did not notice them before 06:50. Flew off E 07:20
- at least 5 Tufted Ducks flew in after I had done the basic count. Perhaps more, though hard to keep track of as they were diving and flying about
Bird totals
Birds noted flying over or flying near the lake
- 21 Canada Geese (2 groups outbound)
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 17 Wood Pigeon only
- 196 Jackdaws
- 2 Pied Wagtails
Birds leaving roosts around the lake
- 11 Redwings
The counts from the lake area
All numbers affected by low light levels again
- 2 Mute Swans
- 4 Greylag Geese
- 6 Canada Geese
- 8 (4♂) Gadwall
- 12 (9♂) Mallard
- 4 (3♂) Pochard
- 124 (>58♂) Tufted Ducks
- 2 Great Crested Grebes again
- 6 Moorhens only
- 109 Coots
- c.80 Black-headed Gulls
And other notes
My log today consisted of
- 2 Winter Moths on lamp poles
- 2 moths in flight pre-dawn likely also Winter Moths
- 1 Scarce Umber moth on a different lamp pole to the previous records
- 2 Mottled Umber moths on lamp poles
- 1 Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) on another lamp pole
- 1 Grey Squirrel
From above separation a lot harder: I think top left again.
(Ed Wilson)
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Trench Lock Pool: 09:30 – 09:50 // 10:45 – 11:15
(24th visit of the year)
Bird notes from here
- Grey Wagtail here again
No birds noted flying over / near here
[excluding the local Wood Pigeons and Jackdaws coming and going]
The counts from the water
- 6 Mute Swans again: one 7HXA
- 5 (1♂) Teal
- 4 (3♂) Mallard
- 1 (1♂) ‘feral’ Mallard as usual
- 33 (18♂)Tufted Ducks
- 4 (1♂) Goosanders
- 1 Cormorant again
- 1 Grey Heron again
- 3 Little Grebes again
- 5 Great Crested Grebes
- 5 Moorhens
- 182 Coots
- 3 Black-headed Gulls only
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
(Ed Wilson)
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Trench Middle Pool: 09:55 – 10:40
(23rd visit of the year)
Notes from here
- now the other cygnet is missing: too immature to fly, so ....
- Teal seem to have gone – see increased number at Trench Lock
- drake Pochard remains
- small hen party of Goosanders today
- record number of Coots
- Grey Wagtail here as well (same bird as at Trench Lock?)
- Pied Wagtail overhead was my 45th bird species here this year
- Siskin overhead was my 46th bird species here this year
and
- 1 Autumnal-type moth (Epirrita sp.) on a lamp pole
- 5 Winter Moths on various lamp pole: new for me at this site
Birds noted flying over / near here
- 1 Pied Wagtail
- 1 Siskin
The counts from the water
- 2 Mute Swans: adults Blue 7JLE and 7JLL
- 2 Greylag Geese
- 17 Canada Geese
- 20 (14♂) Mallard
- 1 (1♂) Pochard
- 11 (3♂) Tufted Ducks
- 2 (0♂) Goosanders
- 1 Great Crested Grebe
- 7 Moorhens
- 33 Coots again
- 71 Black-headed Gulls
(Ed Wilson)
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On this day..........
2017Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2016
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2012
Priorslee Lake
22 Tufted Ducks
143 Coots
Nuthatch
34 Redwings
1 Fieldfare
228 Jackdaws
98 Rooks
(Ed Wilson)
2006
Priorslee Lake
1 Little Grebe
11 Greylag Geese
27 Pochard
70 Tufted Ducks
1 drake Ruddy Duck
70 Coots
>400 Black-headed Gulls
315 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
5 Herring Gulls
221 Wood Pigeons
22 Blackbirds
45 Fieldfares
38 Redwings
264 Jackdaws
71 Rooks
5 Siskins
(Ed Wilson)
2005
Priorslee Lake
1 Pochard
40 Tufted Duck
1 Goldeneye
2 Ruddy Duck
C.700 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
16 Herring Gulls
2 Yellow-legged Gull
2 Great Black-backed Gulls
Caspian Gull
Sparrowhawk
c.628 Jackdaws
c.358 Rooks
(Martin Adlam)