20 Apr 26

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

3.0°C > 9.0°C: Another clear start. An area of broken medium-high cloud took the edge off the sun later. Just frosted again. Calm start with light mist over the water; a light easterly breeze later. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 06:01 BST

* = a species photographed today
$ = a new species for me in this area

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:30 – 06:35 // 07:30 – 09:50

(96th visit of the year)

New bird species
Another addition to my 2026 bird species list for here. A Lesser Whitethroat was singing from the Ricoh hedge c.09:15. A typical location for this species. It moved up and down the dense hedgerow and I glimpsed it move twice – which is about par for this species. Whether it will stay and breed is always difficult to determine. Once it has found a mate and set up a territory it will stop singing and be almost impossible to see. Bird species #80 this year. In common with many other warbler species this is my earliest-ever date.

Other bird notes:
- the cob Mute Swan was busy chasing the Canada Geese and it was difficult to know how many there were: at least seven?
- no sign of yesterday's Mallard with ducklings.
- a lone drake Tufted Duck.
- I could only find four Great Crested Grebes.
- a Common Sandpiper arrived.
- no Lesser Black-backed Gulls visited today.
- no Willow Warblers noted (here or at The Flash)
- three Sedge Warblers again, one in a new location.
- four Reed Warblers noted.
- a Starling was noted apparently on feeding duty, ferrying from the grassy area toward the estate. Another(?) was singing(!?) from trees in a garden in Pitchford Drive.
- no Pied Wagtails on the dam: there was a pair of Grey Wagtails instead.
- at least one Lesser Redpoll was calling from tree tops around the Teece Drive gate at c.06:30. Possibly more as there were also Goldfinches calling and when a group of 16 "finches" flew off there did not seem to be enough twittering flight calls for them all to be Goldfinches.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 7 Greylag Geese: a pair flew East and a quintet flew West
- 6 Wood Pigeons
- 7 Jackdaws (I'll have to start earlier to see more on these lighter mornings)

Counts from the lake area:
- 7 Canada Geese: two pairs and a trio seen arriving. Most chased away,
- 2 Mute Swans: the pen on the nest throughout
- 5 (3♂) Mallard
- 1 (1♂) Tufted Duck
- 6 Moorhens
- 21 Coots
- 4 Great Crested Grebes
- *1 Common Sandpiper: arrived
- 1 Herring Gull: immature
- 1 Grey Heron: departed

Hirundines etc. noted:
- >5 Sand Martins
- 2 Barn Swallows again

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- no Willow Warblers
- *15 (14) Chiffchaffs
- 3 (3) Sedge Warblers again
- 4 (4) Reed Warblers
- 18 (14) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- *1 (1) Common Whitethroat

On the West end street lamp poles post-dawn:
Nothing in chilly conditions with dew-covered poles

Noted around the area later:
[numbers only given for moths and butterflies unless exceptional counts noted]
The lack of full sun kept it quiet.

Bees, wasps, etc.:
- *Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
- *Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Hoverflies:
- none

Other flies:
- only a few unidentified flies.

Beetles:
- 7 Spot Ladybird Coccinella 7-punctata

Third morning with little change. A hint of mist over the water.

A Common Sandpiper. This species can often be identified at long range from its "bobbing" gait.

Not 100% sharp but a view of the under-wing pattern.

"Well that's not very nice".

"Slightly better".

"Much better but you need a preen". A "ruffled" Chiffchaff.

A male Common Whitethroat.

What a poser. Why do Lesser Whitethroat (almost) never perch out like this?

False alarm. I was trying to see the Lesser Whitethroat. I was alert, the camera was ready when out popped a bird. A Blue Tit! Drat.

Mrs. Blackbird has found a worm and chopped it in half.

Going in for the kill.

Chomp!

"Just wait till I get back to the nest. The kids will love this!"

A Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius tucking in to some Dandelion nectar. The all-black head and body (apart from the tail) means it is either a queen or a worker, the males having an orange band across the mid-riff.

A Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris also tucks in.

(Ed Wilson)

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Noted in the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Flies:
- 3 midges of two species

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:40 – 07:25

(92nd visit of the year)

New bird species:
*Also a new bird species for the year here for me. Almost unbelievably my first Pied Wagtail of the year here, a male, was seen on a roof in Derwent Drive. Species #64 [Checking my records for previous year this is perhaps not as exceptional as I thought: my first in 2024 was on 26 April]

Other bird notes:
- the Tufted Ducks were as three pairs.
- two adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls arrived and after circling took up position on roofs in Westcroft Walk / Collett Way.
- no Willow Warblers noted

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 1 Herring Gull

Noted on / around the water:
- 14 Canada Geese: of these a pair departed
- no Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 17 (14♂) Mallard
- 6 (3♂) Tufted Duck
- 8 Moorhens
- 21 Coots
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- *2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults, arrived together

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 7 (6) Chiffchaffs
- 7 (7) Blackcaps

Noted around the area:

Flies:
- 1 female plumed midge Chironomus plumosus

Flower:
- *either Early Dog-violet Viola reichenbachiana or Common Dog-violet V. riviniana

Standing tall and proud: one of two adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls that were on roofs in Westcroft Walk / Collett Way.

Another black and white bird on the roofs: my first Pied Wagtail of the year here.

A flower of a Dog-violet, either Early Dog-violet Viola reichenbachiana or Common Dog-violet V. riviniana, not separable from this angle.

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Priorslee Lake
2 Great Crested Grebe
7 Tufted Duck
1 Cormorant
40 Swifts
2 Jays
4 Chiffchaff
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
(Tony Beckett)

2013
Priorslee Lake
2 Little Ringed Plovers
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 White Wagtail
1 Common Redstart
41 Wheatear
1 Fieldfare
1 Raven
(John Isherwood)

The Wrekin
1 Wheatear
11+ Tree Pipit
7 Common Redstart
6 Pied Flycatchers
(JW Reeves)

2012
Priorslee Lake
2 Common Sandpiper
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
2 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

The Wrekin
2 Ring Ouzel
2 Pied Flycatchers
(J W Reeves)

2010
Wrekin
2 Wood Warblers
3+ Common Redstarts
4+ Pied Flycatchers
2+ Tree Pipits
Tawny Owl
4 Green Woodpecker
1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
(J Reeves)

2008
Priorslee Lake
1 Little Grebe
5 Great Crested Grebes
4 Common Sandpipers
20 Sand Martins
4 Swallows
2 Grey Wagtails
1 Wheatear
1 Redwing singing
8 Willow Warblers
9 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Tit
(Ed Wilson)

2007
Priorslee Lake
1 Common Sandpiper
Grey Wagtail
4 Sand Martin
House Martins
Chiffchaff
1 Lesser Whitethroat
(Ed Wilson, Martin Adlam)

2006
Priorslee Lake
6 Great Crested Grebes
3 Greylag Geese
3 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Ducks
2 Sand Martins
15 Swallows
House Martins
2 Stock Doves
26 Wrens
19 Robins
20 Blackbirds
10 Song Thrushes
1 Redwing
9 Blackcaps
9 Chiffchaffs
7 Willow Warblers
2 Sedge Warbler
10 Greenfinches
5 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson, Martin Adlam)

Lanes to east of Priorslee Lake
1 Skylark
1 Meadow Pipit
4 Blackcaps
3 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
2 Greenfinch
2 Linnets
2 Reed Buntings
8 Yellowhammers
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Skylark
2 Meadow Pipit
1 Fieldfare
2 Wheatear
1 Blackcap
2 Willow Warbler
2 Chiffchaff
2 Linnet
(Martin Adlam)

Priorslee Flash
1 Common Sandpiper
(Ed Wilson)

19 Apr 26

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

4.0°C > 9.0°C: A clear with fair weather clouds building after 08:45. Just frosted. Light north-westerly breeze. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 06:03 BST

* = a species photographed today
$ = a new species for me in this area

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:30 – 06:45 // 07:45 – 09:45

(95th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the noisy group of four adult Black-headed Gulls flying over was an unusual record at this date.
- the usual(?) two adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the south-west grass at 05:45.
- one Willow Warbler heard makings its way rapidly through the tree tops.
- three Sedge Warblers noted, all in previously recorded locations.
- two Reed Warblers noted, both in previously recorded locations.
- yesterday's Garden Warbler not relocated
- Siskin(s) again in tree tops around the Teece Drive gate: heard only.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 3 Canada Goose: a pair flew East; a single flew North
- 4 Greylag Geese: two separate pairs flew West
- *1 Mute Swan: an adult circled the lake twice at height before carrying on West.
- 4 Black-headed Gulls: adult flew West together
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 10 Wood Pigeons
- 5 Jackdaws

Counts from the lake area:
- 4 Canada Geese: two pairs arrived and departed separately the later with...
- 1 Greylag Goose: arrived and departed with a pair of Canada Geese
- 2 Mute Swans: the pen on the nest throughout
- *5 (4♂) + 2 (1 brood) Mallard: the ducklings seen around dawn only
- no Tufted Duck
- 5 Moorhens again
- 20 Coots
- 7 Great Crested Grebes yet again
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- *1 Grey Heron: departed

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 2 Barn Swallows

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 1 (1) Willow Warblers
- *15 (12) Chiffchaffs
- 3 (3) Sedge Warblers
- 2 (2) Reed Warblers
- *17 (15) Blackcaps
- no Garden Warblers
- *1 (1) Common Whitethroat

On the West end street lamp poles post-dawn:
Nothing in chilly conditions with dew-covered poles

Noted around the area later:
[numbers only given for moths and butterflies unless exceptional counts noted]

Butterflies:
- *7 Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines: at least; six of them males

Bees, wasps, etc.:
- *Mining Bee Andrena sp.

Hoverflies:
- Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax
- *Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae [Migrant Hoverfly; Migrant Aphideater]
- Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]

Other flies:
- only a few unidentified flies.

Spiders, harvestmen etc.:
- *1 Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.

Fungi:
- *unidentified fungus

No it is not yesterday's sunrise photo reproduced: it just looks much the same, though colder with a touch of frost.

The adult Mute Swan that had a look at the lake and then carried on.

Mrs. Mallard with just two ducklings. I think the third brood I have seen here this year. Only noted around sunrise.

The local Grey Heron keeps giving me changes for flying shots.

Not something I can recall seeing before: a Chiffchaff sitting on a fence post.

A male Blackcap defying gravity and after a morsel.

Ever upward.

 Looking pleased with itself?

And now singing about it.

"who? me?"

A male Common Whitethroat (Greater Whitethroat according to the Merlin app). The grey head, brown wings and, of course, the white throat are characteristic. Females have the same features, less pronounced.

Flying away showing the brown wings clearly (if nothing else).

Mrs. Reed Bunting.

And again. A pair seemed to be gleaning insects from the vegetation. Note her head pattern.

Mr. Reed Bunting would not come out in to the open but his mostly jet-black head pattern came be seen.

Not one of my best: a pair of sparring Orange-tip butterflies Anthocharis cardamines, the female without the orange on the upper-wings.

Obsidentify said "unknown mining Bee Andrena sp.". I'd prefer "unidentified" to "unknown" but other than that I agree.

This hoverfly is a Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae. The name "migrant" is slightly misleading. Some years huge numbers of this hoverfly arrive from the continent but it is also a very common resident species.

A Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp. You can see why they are also known as stretch spiders.

I cannot get any identity on these edible-looking mushrooms. I was not about to try!

(Ed Wilson)

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Noted in the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Flies:
- 4 midges of two species
- 1 moth fly Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly or Owl Fly]

Spiders, harvestmen etc.:
- *1 possible money spider Erigone sp.

This is possible a money spider Erigone sp. though it looks larger than I would expect.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:50 – 07:40

(91st visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- Great Crested Grebes noted both well away from and sitting at the putative nest site.
- *a Great Spotted Woodpecker was again drumming loudly near the bottom of squirrel alley. Could I see it today? Nope: but I did see it when it moved.
- two Willow Warblers noted, both passing at speed through the tree-tops

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

Noted on / around the water:
- 20 Canada Geese: of these a pair departed
- 7 Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 21 (17♂) Mallard
- 7 (4♂) Tufted Duck
- 5 Moorhens
- 20 Coots
- 2 Great Crested Grebes

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 2 (2) Willow Warbler
- 6 (6) Chiffchaffs again
- 9 (9) Blackcaps

Noted around the area:

Bees, wasps etc.:
- 1 Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
- *1 Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris

Flies:
- 1 female plumed midge Chironomus plumosus
- 1 smaller female plumed midge

Beetles:
- 1 Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni

Spiders, harvestmen etc.:
- 1 Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.

The male Great Spotted Woodpecker was drumming away loudly again. And again I could not find it until it flew a short distance. The red on the nape that identifies it as a male is only just visible here. Note the large feet and claws.

The red on the nape is better seen here.

A photo of the third Song Thrush in the last few days.

A Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris. Note the parallel-sided yellow stripe down the side of the thorax. It is more triangular on the mostly likely confusion species German Wasp V. germanica.

(Ed Wilson)

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2013
Priorslee Lake
1 Kittiwake
1 Sedge Warbler
3 Little Ringed Plover
4 Common Sandpiper
2 Blackcap
Sand Martin
Swallow
(John Isherwood)

East Priorslee
2 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Whinchat
7 Redstart
57 Wheatear
Fieldfare
Meadow Pipit
Siskin
Lesser Whitethroat
(Mick Wall, John Isherwood)

Redhill Lane
10+ Wheatear
4 Yellowhammer
(Mick Wall)

2012
The Wrekin
2 Ring Ouzel
(Observer Unknown)

2011
Priorslee Lake
1 Common Sandpiper
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Grasshopper Warbler
26 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2010
Priorslee Lake
1 Swift
2 House Martin
2 Swallow
150 Sand Martin
7 Blackcap singing
1 Common Sandpiper
(Martin and Ian Grant)

2007
Priorslee Lake
1 Pintail x Mallard
1 Kestrel
Tawny Owl
1 Common Sandpiper
20 Swallow
20 Sand Martins
2 Blackcap
1 Garden Warbler
3 Chiffchaff
4 Reed Bunting
(Martin Grant, Martin Adlam, Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Wheatear
(Martin Grant)

The Flash
Common Sandpiper
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
6 Great Crested Grebes
3 Ruddy Duck
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
12 Sand Martins
8 Swallows
4 House Martins.
2 Stock Doves
1 Skylark
30 Wrens
18 Robins
26 Blackbirds
6 Blackcaps
11 Chiffchaffs
12 Willow Warblers
1 Willow Tit
5 Greenfinches
3 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)

18 Apr 26

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

8.0°C > 11.0°C: Mostly clear with a few medium-level clouds. Light southerly wind, veering moderate westerly. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 06:06 BST

* = a species photographed today
$ = a new species for me in this area

Just one Willow Warbler noted this morning – at The Flash.

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:30 – 06:30 // 07:30 – 08:55

(94th visit of the year)

Other things to do today so a shorter than usual visit which may have affected some of the counts.

New bird species:
Yet another addition to my 2026 bird list for here: a Garden Warbler was singing from the south-west copse c.08:40. Species #79 this year for me and another warbler recorded on my earliest-ever date [20 April in 2020 was my previous earliest record]. Also the last of the warbler species I record every year here. Still a few possibilities for passage birds.

Not a species to add to the formal list: a Common Peafowl (Peacock) was calling distant. I think from across the M54 though in previous years it has been in the now-deserted university campus grounds. It is the first year I have heard it before the start of May.

Other bird notes:
- *just one Common Sandpiper noted.
- one adult Lesser Black-backed Gull flew on to the football field at 05:32; two were on the south-west grass at 05:45.
- one of the only two Sedge Warblers noted was in a new location and heard pre-dawn only.
- no Reed Warblers were heard or seen. Their usual breeding areas are not in very good condition. Much of the larger areas of reeds was cut by the sailing club during the Winter. Some smaller stands of old reeds are in locations prone to human disturbance,
- the only Pied Wagtail seen on the dam this morning was a male taking away nesting material.
- *a pair of Siskin was seen in tree tops around the Teece Drive gate.
- a Reed Bunting was heard singing along the South side c.05:50. A male (the same) was seen along the North side c.08:35.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Canada Goose: a pair flew East
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- *1 Grey Heron: very high
- 7 Wood Pigeons
- 13 Jackdaws

Counts from the lake area:
- 2 Canada Geese: a pair arrived
- 2 Mute Swans: the pen on the nest throughout
- 12 (9♂) Mallard
- 6 (4♂) Tufted Duck
- 5 Moorhens
- 21 Coots once more
- 7 Great Crested Grebes again
- *1 Common Sandpiper
- 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: see notes
- *1 Grey Heron
- the Great (White) Egret seems to have deserted us

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 2 Sand Martins
- 2 Barn Swallows

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- no Willow Warblers
- *14 (12) Chiffchaffs
- 2 (2) Sedge Warblers
- no Reed Warblers
- 16 (12) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Common Whitethroat again

On the West end street lamp poles post-dawn:

Beetles:
- 1 Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni

Spiders, harvestmen etc.:
- *1 possible Noble or False Widow Spider Steatoda nobilis
- *1 Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.
- *1 harvestman Platybunus triangularis (also known as Rilaena triangularis)

Noted around the area later:
[numbers only given for moths and butterflies unless exceptional counts noted]

Butterflies:
- *1 male Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines

Flies:
- only a few unidentified flies.

Beetles:
- 7 Spot Ladybird Coccinella 7-punctata

Mainly clear skies at dawn.

Very little colour.

 I could only capture the Common Sandpiper in flight today. One view.

Here, as it prepares to land, note the small feathers where the front of the wing bends. These are called alula and, just like the leading edge flaps on aircraft, they aid manoeuvrability at low speed by increasing airflow over the upperwings.

Probably the Grey Heron seen here earlier flying off West.

This Grey Heron flying very high East some ten minutes later I have assumed is a different bird.

Mrs. Blackbird on the academy fence. She seems to be carrying a leaf that is mostly decomposed, presumably to form part of her nest lining.

The daily Chiffchaff.

A second helping of Chiffchaff. I suspected the Cetti's Warbler was about to pop in to this bush as it made its regular round. When I saw this warbler shoot in to the bush I thought I had nailed it. Drat! The Cetti's dived in a few seconds later and completely hid away from view. How does it do that?

High up in tall poplar tree is a male Siskin. Hard to identify here but colour could only reasonably confused with a Greenfinch which is a bulkier bird and has a much larger bill. An unusually late date for this species here according to my records (18 March last year).

A not very good photo of a very flighty male Orange-tip butterfly Anthocharis cardamines with an annoying shadow across one wing. Only the males have the orange area on the wing. Look hard: the wing-tips are in fact black with white fringes but that does not trip off the tongue so easily!

One of three "spiders" found on the street lamp poles. This is possibly a Noble or False Widow Spider Steatoda nobilis.

This is one of the Long-jawed Orb-web Spiders of the Tetragnatha group. The large palps indicate it is a male. I cannot, off hand, recall seeing such obvious palps on any of this group previously.

Not strictly a spider because the body comprises a single part. It is the harvestman Platybunus triangularis (also known as Rilaena triangularis). As their name suggests this group is more associated with Autumn (harvest-time) and are found mostly between July and December, sometimes in to January. This species is an exception and the only species found in Spring. My first-ever record was here on 05 May last year.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Nothing noted. I forgot to take my torch – doh!

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:35 – 07:25

(90th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the only Great Crested Grebe noted was well away from the putative nest site.
- a Great Spotted Woodpecker was drumming loudly near the bottom of squirrel alley. Could I see it? Nope.

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

Noted on / around the water:
- 25 Canada Geese: of these a pair departed
- 6 Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 22 (19♂) Mallard
- 6 (4♂) Tufted Duck
- 6 Moorhens
- 19 Coots
- 1 Great Crested Grebe

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Willow Warbler
- 6 (6) Chiffchaffs
- *12 (9) Blackcaps: seemed to be everywhere

Noted around the area later:

Bees, wasps etc.:
- *1 Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris

Lacewings and allies:
- *1 Alder Fly Sialis lutaria

Flies:
- *4 plumed midges, all female Chironomus plumosus

It is just possible to make out this is a Blackcap. It takes more imagination to identify it as a female with a brown cap. Not easy high overhead against the light. Edited as best I can.

A different Song Thrush from my recent photos. This one was in one of the lower car parks of Hickory's Smokehouse.

The parallel-sided yellow stripe down the side of the thorax identifies this as a Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris.

An Alder Fly Sialis lutaria: in the same place as seen on 08 April but not there since.

One of four plumed midges that I found here today. All females (antennae without plumes) and all, like this one, large enough to be Chironomus plumosus.

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Priorslee Lake
4 Common Sandpiper
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Lesser Whitethroat
7 Wheatear
6 Lapwing
Whitethroat
(John Isherwood)

2013
Nedge Hill
21 Wheatears
3 Common Redstart
Common Whitethroat
(Peter Jordan, Ian Grant)

2012
Priorslee Lake
1 Sedge Warbler
25 Swallows
6 House Martins
1 Sand Martin
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Blackcap
(John Isherwood, Martin Grant)

Nedge Hill
1 Redstart
1 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2009
Priorslee Lake
17 Tufted Duck
1 Common Sandpiper
Swallows
House Martins
Sand Martins
2 Reed Warblers again
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
Lapwing
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Redstart
(Ed Wilson)

2008
Priorslee Lake
1 Wigeon
4 Willow Warblers
15 Sand Martins
27 Swallows
2 Gadwall
4 Tufted Ducks
2 Kestrels
9 Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
2 Sand Martins
6 Swallows
2 Blackcaps
4 Chiffchaffs
17 Willow Warblers (11 in song)
4 Redpolls

Nedge Hill
2 Willow Warblers

Trench Lock
2 Sand Martins
7 Swallows
2 Chiffchaff
3 Willow Warblers

2007
Priorslee Lake
4 Common Sandpipers
1 Garden Warbler
Chiffchaff
Reed Bunting
1 Ring-necked Parakeet
(Ed Wilson, Martin Grant)

The Flash
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Curlew
(Ed Wilson)

Wood Lane
1 Grasshopper Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
1 Swallow
1 Sand Martin
4 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
3 Tufted Duck
2 Ruddy Duck
5 Common Sandpiper
1 Kestrel
1 Buzzard
1 Skylark
2 Grey Wagtail
1 Willow Tit
5 Greenfinch
1 Linnet
3 Reed Bunting.
(Martin Adlam)

Lanes east of Priorslee Lake
4 Pheasants
4 Skylarks
4 Blackcaps
2 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
8 Linnets
4 Yellowhammers
1 Redwing
1 Tree Sparrow
1 Common Whitethroat
2 Stock Dove
2 Jay
2 Kestrel
(Martin Adlam)
1 Willow Tit
5 Greenfinch
1 Linnet
1 Redpoll
4 Reed Bunting
(Martin Adlam)