2 May 24

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

9.0°C > 11.0°C: Low overcast and misty after last evening's deluge. Moderate northerly breeze, dropped away somewhat. Moderate visibility at best.

Sunrise: 05:35 BST

* = a species photographed today

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:15 – 06:15 // 07:20 – 09:45

(97th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the resident Canada Geese still have seven goslings.
- the resident Greylag Geese still have six goslings.
- I did not see any Coot with juveniles though I did hear begging.
- the Lesser Whitethroat was singing up and down the Ricoh hedge until 08:45 after which it was not heard.
- the long-term Common Whitethroat at the West end was singing very intermittently and also seen gleaning insects. I have yet to see a female here. Another male was along the South side this morning making numerous dancing song flights. Perhaps a new arrival though I have heard (passing?) birds occasionally from the same area.
- certainly two Garden Warblers. I was photographing one looking puzzled while another was singing. They may both have been singing at various times. There are usually three or four pairs nesting. As a species it tends to arrive later than most other migrant warblers.

Counts of birds noted flying over:
- 7 Canada Geese: a single outbound and three pairs inbound
- 4 Greylag Geese: two pairs together outbound
- 1 Stock Dove
- 9 Wood Pigeons
- 1 Collared Dove
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 1 Jackdaw

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 6 Sand Martins
- *7 Barn Swallows
- 1 House Martin

Warblers noted (the figure in brackets relates to birds heard singing):
- *1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 13 (12) Chiffchaffs
- 2 (2) Sedge Warblers
- 10 (10) Reed Warblers
- 12 (10) Blackcaps
- *2 (1) Garden Warblers
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- 2 (2) Common Whitethroats
'nominal' warbler:
- 3 (3) Goldcrests

Counts from the lake area:
- 2 + 7 (1 brood) Canada Geese
- 2 + 6 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 6 (5♂) Mallard: also 1 (1♂) on the lower pool
- no Tufted Duck
- 3 Moorhens
- 22 + ? (1 brood heard only) Coots
- *6 Great Crested Grebes
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: on the football field 06:10

Seen on the street lamps poles pre-dawn:
- 1 female plumed midge Chironomus plumosus

Noted later:

Other flies:
- *smaller female plumed midges
- *Empid dagger fly, species not determined
- *Dance fly Hilara sp.

Beetles:
- Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni: these were everywhere today
- *Raspberry Beetle Byturus tomentosus
- *Soldier beetle Cantharis decipiens
- *unidentified beetle

Spiders:
- *Walnut Orb Weaver Nuctenea umbratica

Not again! Another sighting of a Great Crested Grebe with breakfast. No red on the fish's gills so not a Perch Perca fluviatilis.

Note how the tip of the grebe's body is tilted up, presumably to act as a counterweight.

This gives the best view of the fish which is a Tench Tinca tinca.

At last I have managed a photo of the very noisy Cetti's Warbler even if he is lurking amongst the twigs.

At least the mouth is in focus as he belts out his song for the entire lake to hear.

"Was that me making all that noise?"

A Garden Warbler. This one was looking quizzically toward another singing nearby. The sexes of this species have identical plumage.

 In good light – and this morning wasn't – there is a hint of a grey shawl on the nape of this species. It is not evident here.

Compare and contrast. Sitting on one of jetties are a female Pied Wagtail and a resting Barn Swallow. I did not want to get closer as I would have disturbed the geese families. If the young take to the water then the cob Mute Swan is inclined to drown them.

A female non-biting (I hope) midge. Species unknown.

This is one of the Empid dagger flies. I cannot match the thorax pattern (one pale line and two fainter lines) so it remains unidentified.

A fly in the same Empid family but one of the Hilara species with swollen front tarsus. H. maura is the most common of a group of at least 50 species.

 Most odd. This seems to be a Soldier beetle Cantharis decipiens perhaps just emerged from the larval stage and yet to "dry out". I would never have had a clue at to what this was without the Obsidentify suggestion. The head and thorax are spot-on and the elytra look to be developing to cover the abdomen, as they do in all beetles.

I must have looked at many hundred buttercup flowers this morning and this was the only one with a Raspberry Beetle Byturus tomentosus inside.

At the time I thought this was a second getting in early before the flower was properly open. When I checked the photo I can see that the elytra of this beetle are slightly green it is more elongated. One for the Shropshire recorder I fear.

A spider from the underside. The white crescent markings identify this as a Walnut Orb Weaver Nuctenea umbratica.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Nothing of note

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:20 – 07:15

(99th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- most unusually no Tufted Duck were present. Usually a few stay all summer and occasionally they breed here.
- it is tempting to suggest that the two Lesser Black-backed Gulls that dropped in were the two that had been noted on the football field near the Balancing Lake.
- the Willow Warbler remains in good voice: all the other 'stray' warblers have moved on.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:

None

Warblers noted (the figure in brackets relates to birds heard singing):
- 1 (1) Willow Warbler
- 6 (6) Chiffchaffs
- 3 (3) Blackcaps
'nominal' warbler:
- 1 (1) Goldcrest

Noted on / around the water:
- 20 Canada Geese
- 1 Greylag Goose
- *5 Mute Swans
- *21 (17♂) + 2 (1 brood) Mallard
- 5 Moorhens
- 19 + >1 (2 broods) Coots: one brood with a single juvenile; another brood heard begging
- 2 Great Crested Grebes: mating at the nest site.
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults, briefly

Noted elsewhere around The Flash:

Beetles:
- Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni: many fewer today

This Mute Swan caused me to pause. Brown in the wings means an immature but the bill is no longer mainly dark. Is that normal?

Seems it is. One of the other juveniles from last year looks much the same.

A duck Mallard with just two ducklings. When I first spotted the adult showing white in the wing I thought the Gadwall had nested. Not so: the bird is too large, the bill colour wrong and the white (whatever it is) is in the wrong place.

(Ed Wilson)

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Sightings from previous years

2013
Wrekin
6 Tree Pipits
1 Wheatear
5 Pied Flycatchers
2 Common Redstarts
3 Wood Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

2012
Priorslee Lake
Whimbrel
Grasshopper
5 Common Sandpiper
Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

Wrekin
1 Wood Warbler
1 Common Redstart
3 Tree Pipit
2 Pied Flycatcher
(J Reeves)

2006
Priorslee Lake
3 Common Sandpipers
2 Ruddy Ducks
(Ed Wilson)

1 May 24

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

9.0°C > 14.0°C: Alternating between cloud and sun. Light southerly breeze. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 05:37 BST

* = a species photographed today

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:15 – 06:20 // 07:25 – 07:55 // 08:30 – 10:30

(95th visit of the year)

A "car servicing day" so three visits at slightly different times from usual. Probably affected the warbler numbers somewhat as some may have stopped singing by the time I reached them.

Bird notes:
- the resident Canada Geese have hatched seven goslings
- now just six Greylag Goose goslings with the cob Mute Swan threatening if they went in the water.
- a Coot with three juveniles was my first family here. I cannot explain why my Coot count yesterday was so low.
- only three Sedge Warblers today, two of these in different locations to yesterday's mass arrival.
- more Reed Warblers today with several birds singing from scrub rather than reeds and three non-singing birds seen.
- the Lesser Whitethroat was singing up and down the Ricoh hedge all morning.
- the Common Whitethroat did sing intermittently: I also saw him attending what I suspect was a nest site.

Counts of birds noted flying over:
- 4 Canada Geese: a pair outbound and a pair inbound
- 2 Greylag Geese: a pair inbound
- 14 Wood Pigeons
- 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 5 Jackdaws
- 3 Rooks

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 1 House Martin high over at 06:00 was the only sighting

Warblers noted (the figure in brackets relates to birds heard singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 11 (10) Chiffchaffs
- 3 (3) Sedge Warblers
- 14 (11) Reed Warblers
- 15 (12) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- *1 (1) Common Whitethroat
'nominal' warbler:
- no Goldcrests

Counts from the lake area:
- *17 Canada Geese: the resident pair with seven goslings: three other pairs, two of which flew off
- 2 + 6 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 5 (5♂) Mallard: also 2 (2♂) on the lower pool; and 1 (1♂) on the upper pool
- 6 (3♂) Tufted Duck: of these a pair flew off West; and a pair arrived from the East
- 4 Moorhens
- 22 + 3 (1 brood) Coots
- 7 Great Crested Grebes

On the street lamps poles pre-dawn:

Nothing at all seen 

Noted later:

Butterflies etc.:
- Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines
- *unidentified larva

Wasp sp.
- *ichneumon to be identified!
- *presumed Blackfly aphid

Hoverflies:
- *Migrant Field Syrph or Migrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae
- *Grey-spotted Boxer Platycheirus albimanus [also known as Grey-spotted Sedgesitter or White-footed Hoverfly]

Other flies:
- plumed midges
- Alder Fly Sialis lutaria
- *owl midge Psychodidae sp.
- *unidentified flies!

Beetles:
- Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni: these were everywhere today
- *Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis var. succinea

Spiders:
- *Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.

Plant:
- *Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata

Not promising...

Slightly better.

The family of Canada Geese with seven goslings.

Here they area again with Mum and Dad keeping a good look out.

Five of the goslings here. Goslings and ducklings can walk and feed as soon as they have hatched. These have yet to discover you cannot eat concrete!

One of two Buzzards overhead.

And the other.

Now: is this one sitting (on one leg) on a street lamp pole in Teece Drive a third?

Camera shy!

The only warbler to be at all cooperative today was the male Common Whitethroat.

Sort of cooperative.

The larva of what? It is resting on one of my fingers. Tiny! (the larva and not my finger)

 I am pushed for time today so have no time for research to identify this ichneumon.

My first Migrant Field Syrph or Migrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae this year. They are not necessarily 'true migrants' though our resident population is boosted by arrivals from the Continent.

A very small hoverfly. It is a Grey-spotted Boxer Platycheirus albimanus [also known as Grey-spotted Sedgesitter or White-footed Hoverfly].

Try taking photos of Blackfly aphids without a close-up lens. Hard to get them in focus.

Another one for research. The reddish hind femur and the pale belly on this fly might allow identification.

Another fly that ought to be identifiable with the swelling on the hind leg.

An owl midge Psychodidae sp. These are so naturally 'fuzzy' it is hard to know whether they are in focus or not.

Is this sharper or a different species? There are 99 to choose from.

Lots of spots and white on the face so a Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis var. succinea.

A Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp. It is easy to see why they are also called stretch spiders.

The flower of a Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata. These have burst open in the last few days.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Nothing of note

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:25 – 07:20

(99th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the cob Mute Swan was displaying with one of last year's juveniles for a while. When they came too close to the pen sitting on the nest her chased her (I assume) away.
- two singing Sedge Warblers this morning, neither where I heard the bird yesterday. My first multiple record here.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 1 Cormorant
- 1 Sparrowhawk

Warblers noted (the figure in brackets relates to birds heard singing):
- 1 (1) Willow Warbler
- 5 (5) Chiffchaffs
- 2 (2) Sedge Warblers
- 5 (5) Blackcaps
'nominal' warbler:
- 1 (1) Goldcrest

Noted on / around the water:
- 13 Canada Geese
- 6 Greylag Geese
- 5 Mute Swans
- 11 (9♂) Mallard
- *5 (3♂) Tufted Duck
- 7 Moorhens
- 18 Coots
- 1 Great Crested Grebe
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults, briefly

Noted elsewhere around The Flash:

Beetles:
- Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
- *Raspberry Beetle Byturus tomentosus or perhaps the similar slightly larger species B. ochraceus.

A pair of Tufted Duck. It is unusual to see a duck bird with so much white on the face at this date. Could it be a Scaup? Well: unlikely paired with a drake Tufted Duck but the white on the face does not extend high-enough on to the bottom of the crown; and although it is hard to make out any hint of a tuft the head shape is the same as the drake.

Good light on a Goldfinch.

From head-on an 'Angry Bird'

Enjoying a buttercup are three what I think are Raspberry Beetles Byturus tomentosus. There is a similar slightly larger species. If you look carefully there is something small and green disappearing at the 2 o'clock position.

(Ed Wilson)

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Sightings from previous years

2013
Priorslee Lake
3 Great Crested Grebes
6 Cormorants
3 Reed Warblers
2 Common Whitethroat
8 Blackcaps
9 Chiffchaffs
3 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
2 Greylag Geese
1 Richardson's / Cackling-type Canada Goose
17 Tufted Duck
2 Song Thrushes
3 Blackcaps
4 Chiffchaffs
3 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
16 Wheatears
1 Lesser Whitethroat
3 Common Whitethroats
1 Blackcaps
2 Chiffchaffs
3 Fieldfare
5 Linnets
4 Yellowhammers
1 Raven
(Ed Wilson)

Long Lane, Wellington
2 Whimbrel
(JW Reeves)

2011
Priorslee Lake
2 Common Sandpiper
1 Sedge Warbler
2 Raven
(John Isherwood)

Priorslee Flash
1 Common Sandpiper
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Whinchat
4 Wheatear
2 Garden Warbler
(John Isherwood)

2010
Priorslee Lake
5 Reed Warbler
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Whinchat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
22 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2009
Priorslee Lake
7 Swans
3 Common Sandpipers
Sedge Warbler
Garden Warbler
9 Reed Warblers
Common Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
(Ed Wilson)

Lanes to the E / SE of the lake
2 Lesser Whitethroats
3 Whitethroats
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
8 Tufted Duck
2 Willow Warblers
1 Chiffchaff
2 Blackcaps
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
Lesser Whitethroat
Common Whitethroat
Garden Warbler
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
2 Linnets
2 Yellowhammers
5 Wheatears
4 Skylarks
2 Jays
(Ed Wilson)

The Wrekin
5+ Tree Pipit
3 Redstart
Wood Warbler
Garden Warbler
Wheatear
7 Meadow Pipits
(Ed Wilson)

2008
Priorslee Lake
13 Mute Swans
(Martin Adlam)

2007
Priorslee Lake
Whimbrel
4 Great Crested Grebes
3 Tufted Ducks
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Stock Doves
2 Grey Wagtails
2 Sedge Warblers
4 Reed Warblers
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Lesser Whitethroat
Jay
119 Jackdaw
3 House Sparrows
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
4 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
1 Tufted Duck
2 Ruddy Ducks
1 Dunlin
1 Whimbrel
5 Common Sandpipers
8 Swifts
1 Skylark
97 Sand Martins
31 Swallows
3 House Martins
2 Grey Wagtails
1 Sedge Warbler
1 Reed Warbler
2 Lesser Whitethroats
1 Garden Warbler
10 Blackcaps
6 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
6 Greenfinches
1 Linnet
4 Reed Bunting

Lanes to the east of the Lake
3 Mallards
1 Lesser Whitethroat
5 Whitethroats
3 Jay
3 Skylarks
2 Blackcaps
2 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
4 Greenfinches
3 Linnets
4 Bullfinches
8 Yellowhammers.
(Ed Wilson)

30 Apr 24

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

8.0°C > 12.0°C: Another mostly clear to start. It stayed clear to the East with variable medium-level cloud below a high overcast to the West and overhead. Fresh south-easterly breeze. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 05:39 BST

* = a species photographed today

Quite a day today with numerous highlights:
- best was two Whimbrel that flew south-west together over Teece Drive at 07:25. My only other record of this species in the area was of a single bird heard calling overhead on 26 April 2019.
- my second Common Sandpiper of the year at The Flash. Surprisingly I did not note any at the Balancing Lake.
- no fewer than seven singing Sedge Warblers: six at the Balancing Lake, all along the South side where several were almost shoulder-to-shoulder. Also one at The Flash in water-side vegetation between the two footbridges.
- a second Lesser Whitethroat record at the lake with one singing in the Ricoh hedge both at 05:30 and 09:30 (and probably in between).
Frustratingly I was not able to get photos of any of these!

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:20 – 06:20 // 07:20 – 09:50

(95th visit of the year)

New Bird Species
The Whimbrel as highlighted is my 90th bird species here this year.

Other bird notes:
- still seven Greylag Goose goslings despite two Carrion Crows hanging around. The adults did not seen particularly concerned.
- after confirming just two Great Crested Grebes yesterday I noted seven on the surface at one time today.
- a Kestrel flew West at 05:40 and soon after was seen hovering over the Ricoh grounds. Possibly the same bird flew East at 08:50. The number of recent sightings suggests that this declining species is once again nesting locally.
- Starlings are now ferrying food from the playing fields toward the estate. I have not heard begging juveniles so I assume they are feeding egg-sitting partners.
- the only Common Whitethroat to have set up a territory was singing as usual until at least 07:30. I did not hear him later.
- as they do every year during late Spring and early Summer the House Sparrows from the estate are venturing around the lake area. Today one reached as far as the dam. I have never proven that they have nested around the lake.
- after weeks (months) of almost no records a Nuthatch has been calling loudly from the Ricoh copse for the last two mornings.

Counts of birds noted flying over:
- 7 Canada Geese: a pair outbound and a quintet inbound
- 6 Greylag Geese: four flew South together and a pair inbound
- 8 Wood Pigeons
- 2 Herring Gulls
- 14 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 5 Cormorants: a single and two duos
- 5 Jackdaws

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 3 Swifts
- 10 Sand Martins
- 4 Barn Swallows
- 8 House Martins

Warblers noted (the figure in brackets relates to birds heard singing):
An almost full-house of species: just Grasshopper Warbler missing
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 14 (11) Chiffchaffs
- 6 (6) Sedge Warblers
- 7 (7) Reed Warblers
- 17 (12) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- 1 (1) Common Whitethroat
'nominal' warbler:
- 1 (1) Goldcrests

Counts from the lake area:
- 4 Canada Geese: the resident pair throughout: a pair visited and stayed on the dam top
- 2 + 7 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 3 (2♂) Mallard: also 1 (1♂) on the lower pool
- no Tufted Duck
- 3 Moorhens
- 12 Coots only
- 7 Great Crested Grebes

On the street lamps poles pre-dawn:

Nothing at all seen

Noted later:

The sun was not out and a brisk wind again:

Hoverflies:
- "Buttercup" Hoverfly Cheilosia albitarsis/ranunculi agg.
- Short Melanostoma Melanostoma mellinum aka Variable Duskyface

Other flies:
- plumed midges
- Alder Fly Sialis lutaria
- a 'greenbottle', perhaps Eudasyphora cyanella
- at least five other species of fly

Beetles:
- Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
- 24 Spot Ladybird Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata

A couple of photos of a sunrise for which it was worth getting up.

A different view. As so often it was all downhill for the next few hours.

The family party of Greylag Geese seem happy on the dam-top.

All seven goslings gathered together.

A Kestrel hovering over the Ricoh grass just as the sun is rising. The narrow white tips to the otherwise broad black tail band indicate it is a female.

And again. With the tail more or less closed the missing feather(s) are less obvious.

I think this is one of the species pair Cheilosia albitarsis/ranunculi that favour buttercups. All members of this genus of hoverflies are glossy green/black and apart from one large species with patterned wings they are very difficult to separate.

A female Short Melanostoma hoverfly Melanostoma mellinum aka Variable Duskyface. Many females are all-dark (melanistic): not this one.

Obsidentify is not good at flies: the scientific name it gave to its 100% identification of this turns out to be a black and yellow hoverfly with bold stripes on the thorax. I think not! Searching NatureSpot leads me to the Muscid fly Eudasyphora cyanella on the basis of the white collar and the dark lines extending across the thorax. But...

A different individual. These are different-looking 'greenbottle' flies with the green increasing in intensity toward the rear of the abdomen. I read that as they age the green turns to bronze. That's helpful!

Another greenish fly, this one apparently having lost (part of) an antenna. No white collar or marks on the thorax of this species.

I said Obsidentify is not good at flies. It was 100% sure this was a Common Cranefly. I am 100% sure it isn't. But what it is I have no idea.

 I wonder whether this is the same species of fly?

My initial thought this might be "another Cheilosia hoverfly". The white around the inside of the eyes is not a feature of any species of hoverfly. So yet another unidentified fly.

Another two-fer. I can't tell anything about either of the flies but I can identify a Dandelion when I see one.

A red ladybird with lots of spots immediately suggests a Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis var. succinea. However this was about a quarter the size of a typical Harlequin and...

...does not show white on the face. The head and thorax are the same colour as the elytra. It is a 24 Spot Ladybird Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata. It is a good job that they wear a label showing their scientific name: you would need a microscope to read it. They do not always have exactly 24 spots.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Flies:
- various midges

Arthropods:
- 1 White-legged Snake Millipede Tachypodoiulus niger

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:25 – 07:15

(98th visit of the year)

New Bird Species
The Sedge Warbler as highlighted is my 65th bird species here this year. I record this species on passage most years.

Other bird notes:
- big reduction in Tufted Duck numbers recently (none today at the Balancing Lake)
- only juvenile Coot seems extant from the first-noted brood. The second noted brood not seen.
- now only one Willow Warbler singing here. It has been singing strongly in the same place for several days as if it has set up a territory.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 1 Jackdaw

Warblers noted (the figure in brackets relates to birds heard singing):
- 1 (1) Willow Warbler
- 6 (6) Chiffchaffs
- 1 (1) Sedge Warbler
- 6 (4) Blackcaps
'nominal' warbler:
- 1 (1) Goldcrest

Noted on / around the water:
- 22 Canada Geese
- no Greylag Geese
- 5 Mute Swans
- 13 (10♂) Mallard
- 4 (2♂) Tufted Duck
- 6 Moorhens
- 19 + 1 (1 brood) Coots
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 1 Common Sandpiper

Noted elsewhere around The Flash on different lamp poles:

Moths:
- all gone! The street lamp was getting the full force of the breeze

Beetles:
- Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni

Would you believe a Common Sandpiper in flight? The best I could do.

(Ed Wilson)

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Sightings from previous years

2013
Priorslee Lake
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Raven
2 Reed Warbler
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Whinchat
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 White Wagtail
2 Common Redstart
40 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

Long Lane, Wellington
3 Whimbrel
(JW Reeves)

2012
Priorslee Lake
1 Lesser Whitethroat
1 Reed Warbler
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Common Redstart
15 Wheatear
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Raven
(John Isherwood)

The Wrekin
2 Pied Flycatchers
Common Redstart
(Observer Unknown)

2009
Priorslee Lake
Hobby
2 Red-legged Partridge
Lesser Whitethroat
Cormorant
5 Lapwings
6 Reed Warblers
3 Whitethroats
8 Blackcaps
5 Chiffchaffs
4 Linnet
(Ed Wilson)

2008
Priorslee Lake
17 Mute Swans
(Martin Adlam)

2007
Priorslee Lake
1 Swift
c.20 Sand Martins
1 Swallow
6 House Sparrows
2 Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Kestrel
2 Stock Dove
2 Grey Wagtails
1 Sedge Warbler
4 Reed Warblers
Chiffchaff
126 Jackdaw
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Buzzards
Swallow
Ring Ouzel
2 Common Whitethroat
1 Chiffchaff
2 Linnets
(Ed Wilson)

Priorslee Flash
3 Great Crested Grebes
Reed Bunting
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
5 Great Crested Grebes
2 Greylag Geese
6 Tufted Ducks
2 Common Sandpiper
1 Cuckoo
1 Skylark
c.10 Sand Martins
c.8 Swallows
c.20 House Martins
1 Meadow Pipit
2 Grey Wagtails
32 Wren
26 Blackbirds
2 Sedge Warblers
3 Reed Warblers
2 Lesser Whitethroats
2 Garden Warbler
10 Blackcaps
6 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
1 Jay
11 Chaffinches
8 Greenfinches
3 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)