15 Apr 26

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

11.0°C > 13.0°C: An overcast start with light drizzle. Cloud lifted slightly with only a very few breaks developing. Another day with the early light south-easterly wind, increasing moderate. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 06:12 BST

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

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:30 – 06:30 // 07:25 – 09:20

(91st visit of the year)

New bird species:
*A very welcome addition to my 2026 bird list for here with a female Wheatear seen on the dam c.08:45. A typical date and location though the species is far less regular than it once was. Species #77 this year for me.

Other bird notes:
- there did not seem to be any Canada Geese present at dawn. Later there were two pairs. These could well have been birds that I noted leaving The Flash though it is possible that pairs attempting to breed are mostly hiding away from the cob Mute Swan.
- both here and at The Flash the pen Mute Swan was off the nest some of the time. She will only sit full time once the clutch of eggs is complete so as to ensure all the eggs hatch at the same time. Until then she has to visit to make sure the eggs are not chilled.
- the recent decline in Coot numbers is probably because some birds are sitting on nests tucked away in the reeds.
- as usual the Great Crested Grebes were playing submarines and also hiding in the reeds. There were certainly nine present and I strongly suspect 11.
- on my early walk around Blackcaps seemed to be singing everywhere. Today's count of 20 singing individuals is my highest number here. I am sure they cannot all find a breeding territory and some will move on.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Canada Geese: a pair flew West again
- 3 Greylag Goose: a trio flew West
- 1 Stock Dove
- 4 Wood Pigeons only
- 19 Jackdaws

Counts from the lake area:
- 4 Canada Geese
- 2 Mute Swans: the pen on the nest sometime
- 9 (7♂) Mallard: no ducklings seen
- 10 (6♂) Tufted Duck
- 7 Moorhens
- 21 Coots again
- 9 (11?) Great Crested Grebes: see notes
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults at 06:20: presumed these two on the football field 06:25
- 1 Grey Heron

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 5 Sand Martins

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 7 (7) Willow Warblers again
- 17 (14) Chiffchaffs
- 3 (3) Sedge Warblers
- 3 (3) Reed Warblers
- 22 (20)!! Blackcaps

On the West end street lamp poles post-dawn:
Very little in drizzle with wet poles.

Noted around the area later:
Too overcast for much

Flies:
- a number of uninteresting and unidentified flies of at least three species.

Sitting a street lamp pole in Teece Drive at c.06:25 one of the local Common Buzzards was looking the other way. I knew that as I walked past it would fly so I coughed and....

...it gave me a stare before flying away.

I was very pleased to find this female Wheatear on the dam.

A male Wheatears would show a black mask and black wings so no confusion here.

Here she is again. Do not look for a wheat pattern around the ear. The popular name is a polite form of the country name "white arse". Both sexes have a bright white rump clearly visible as they fly ahead of you. As she was likely a tired new arrival from sub-Saharan Africa I let her be rather than try for a closer photo.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Arthropod:
- *1 Common Shiny Woodlouse Oniscus asellus

Slugs, snails etc.:
- *1 Cepaea species of snail, either White-lipped Snail C. hortensis or Brown-lipped Snail C. nemoralis

This is a Common Shiny Woodlouse Oniscus asellus with jauntily angled antennae (only one pair, the other pair is a shadow from the camera flash).

This is one of the Cepaea species of snail. My photo does not show the critical rim at the shell's opening so I cannot tell whether it is a White-lipped Snail C. hortensis or a Brown-lipped Snail C. nemoralis. Both species have very variable, usually colourful and bold, patterning.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:35 – 07:20

(88th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- no Tufted Duck seen. Most unusual, both because a few non-breeding birds can usually be found throughout the year and because there were still some on the Balancing Lake where birds do not tend to stay.
- a Great Crested Grebe was only seen on the nesting platform.?
- *a Cormorant was present when I arrived: it soon departed
- a Stock Dove was calling at the top end and then seen in display flight.
- even more Willow Warblers. At the top of what I call squirrel alley I could hear five birds singing and I could see at least two other non-singing birds in the tree-tops.
- a Sedge Warbler was heard in a very similar place to the bird I heard on Monday.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Canada Geese: pair
- 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults, together

Noted on / around the water:
- 33 Canada Geese: of these 20 departed as 8 pairs and a quartet, separately
- 6 Greylag Geese: of these a trio and a single departed
- 2 Mute Swans
- 14 (12♂) Mallard only
- no Tufted Duck
- 7 Moorhens
- 20 Coots
- 1 Great Crested Grebe: see notes
- *1 Cormorant: departed

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

Noted around the area later:

Caterpillar:
- *1 er?

Flies:
- *2 owl midges Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly, Moth Fly or Owl Fly]

In the poor light I was never going to get more than a record shot of this morning's Cormorant.

A Song Thrush jumped down in front of me...

...and had seen breakfast. Anyone for spaghetti?

One of two owl midge Psychodidae sp. on the same sign giving details of the penalty for dog-fouling.

Not sure about this. At the time I thought a caterpillar on the street lamp pole. But after I had edited the photo I had my doubts. Obsidentify thought (4%!) it was a willow - and it may be correct. A single willow leaf caught in a web? See the thread running away towards 11 o'clock. Oops!

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Priorslee Lake
3 Great Crested Grebes
3 Grey Herons
2 Greylag Geese over
9 Tufted Duck
1 Little Ringed Plover
2 Common Sandpipers
10 Blackcaps
6 Chiffchaffs
5 Willow Warbler
117 Jackdaws
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
2 Great Crested Grebes
1 Cackling-type Goose
29 Tufted Ducks
3 Blackcap
4 Chiffchaffs
4 Willow Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

Trench Lock Pool
4 Great Crested Grebes
5 Tufted Ducks
4 Blackcaps
3 Chiffchaffs
7 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

Trench Middle Pool
3 Great Crested Grebes
8 Greylag Geese
13 Tufted Duck
3 Blackcaps
2 Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
4 Wheatear
Willow Warbler
Blackcap
(Ian Grant)

2013
Priorslee Lake
2 Great Crested Grebe
1 Buzzard
3 Chiffchaff
(Tony Beckett)

Long Lane, Wellington
10 Ringed Plover
5 Dunlin
(J W Reeves)

2012
Nedge Hill
2 Redstart
1 Wheatear
(Martin Grant)

2011
Priorslee Lake
Grey Wagtail
1 Common Sandpiper
5 Tufted Duck
1 Kingfisher
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Wheatear
Common Redstart
11 Wheatear
(John Isherwood, Ed Wilson)

Telford Railway Station
11 Waxwings
(Colin Wright)

2007
Nedge Hill
1 Buzzard
4 Skylark
1 Fieldfare
3 Willow Warbler
2 Chiffchaff
3 Greenfinch
4 Linnet
(Martin Adlam)

Priorslee Village
Black-tailed Godwit
(Martin Adlam)

2006
Priorslee Lake
4 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
3 Greylag Geese
3 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Duck
1 Water Rail
3 Common Sandpiper
1 Ringed Plover
12 Chiffchaff
7 Willow Warbler
6 Blackcaps
1 Sky Lark
2 Grey Wagtail
1 Willow Tit
4 Greenfinch
3 Linnet
5 Reed Bunting.
(Martin Adlam, John Isherwood)

14 Apr 26

Priorslee Balancing Lake, Woodhouse Lane and The Flash

3.0°C > 9.0°C: A mostly clear start with cloud quickly spreading from the West. Light south-easterly wind, increasing moderate. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 06:14 BST

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

Still a good number of Willow Warblers passing.

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:30 – 06:30 // 07:40 – 09:10

(90th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- unusually there were more Blackbirds (nine) than Song Thrushes (seven) noted singing. Many more Blackbirds seen only, though no non-singing thrushes seen.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Canada Geese: a pair flew West
- 1 Greylag Goose: flew East
- 1 Mute Swan: flew South 06:30
- 4 Herring Gulls: flew West together, two at least immatures
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- *1 Great (White) Egret: flew East well to the South at 08:05
- 21 Wood Pigeons
- 68 Jackdaws: no large groups
- 9 Rooks

Counts from the lake area:
- *4 Canada Geese: of these a pair arrived and a pair departed
- 2 Mute Swans: the pen on the nest throughout
- *8 (6♂) + 3 (1 brood) Mallard
- 4 (3♂) Tufted Duck
- 6 Moorhens
- *21 Coots: only – why?
- 6 Great Crested Grebes
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull: adult, briefly c.05:50
- 1 Grey Heron again
- no Great (White) Egret at the lake

Hirundines etc. noted:
- c.10 Sand Martins
- 2 Barn Swallows

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 7 (7) Willow Warblers
- 20 (18) Chiffchaffs
- 2 (2) Sedge Warbler
- 3 (3) Reed Warblers again
- 15 (13) Blackcaps

On the West end street lamp poles post-dawn:
Nothing on the heavily dew-covered poles on a chilly morning. Not helped by one of the lights having failed – typically the one that is well surrounded by vegetation and which produces the greatest number of moths.

Around the area later:

Nothing noted. Too chilly, windy and overcast

The early dawn with almost all the cloud behind me to the West.

Coloured up for a while.

This is one of a pair of Canada Geese that seem to have unwisely chosen a nest site a few feet from where the pen Mute Swan has her nest. The cob Mute Swan usually tries to prevent the geese accessing the water. This morning he managed to chase this one away for a while.

Neither of the Mallard parents seem at all interested in what their three ducklings are doing.

Here are the ducklings. I think this is a different brood to the group of five I photographed last Friday.

A Coot in full cry.

And here doing its impression of the Jesus Christ Lizard of Central and South America (properly known as the Common Basilisk which scampers so quickly across flowing water that to the human eye it does appear to run on top of the water)

Very distant. The only Great (White) Egret I noted this morning.

There has been a group of three Pied Wagtail chasing around on the dam-face for many days now. I assumed a ménage à trois but... this is one – a female.

#2 also a female.

#3 another female. So?

(Ed Wilson)

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Woodhouse Lane: 06:30 – 07:40

(5th full visit of the year)

Bird notes:
Highlight here was one, and perhaps two, Common Whitethroat heard in song and then briefly seen as they flitted out of sight. My first for the year but outside my Priorslee Lake recording area. Perhaps tomorrow....

Other bird notes:
- a Coot was being very aggressive toward a Moorhen at the lower pool. Perhaps it also chased the Moorhen that ended up as a road casualty in Castle Farm Way yesterday.
- *one male Blackcap sat on the hedge right next to me and we looked at each other for a while!
- just one Sky Lark heard and then seen.
- *a few Linnets were being typically flighty and mainly in tree tops.
- *three Yellowhammers seen chasing. I later heard a male calling. The only Yellowhammer I got a good look at was a female.

Counts of significant species (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 2 Pheasants: male seen and another heard calling
- 2 Canada Geese on the lower pool
- 1 (1♂) Mallard on the upper pool
- 1 Moorhen on the lower pool, being pursued by...
- 1 Coot on the lower pool
- 1 (1) Skylark: only
- 1 (1) Willow Warbler
- 1 (1) Chiffchaff
- *3 (2) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Common Whitethroats: possibly a second
- 1 (1) Goldcrest
- *3 (2) Song Thrushes
- 1 Pied Wagtail
- *6 (3) Chaffinches
- *3 Linnets: at least
- 2 Goldfinches
- *3 Yellowhammers: no song

The sunrise from the concrete road leading to Woodhouse Lane.

The same group of trees looking the other way, sunlit against the incoming cloud.

Looking down Woodhouse Lane it is difficult to believe the new estate is less than half-a-mile away.

The male Blackcap that popped up on the cut, nay massacred, hedge alongside Woodhouse Lane.

We just looked at each other. After a minute or so the Blackcap flew off in no particular hurry.

An aggressive Robin coming in for the kill?

Not really. It was just leaving its perch because it thought I was too close.

A Song Thrush bouncing around in the dew-laden grass. It looks to be carrying something in its bill but...

...nothing visible seconds later.

 A female Chaffinch devouring breakfast.

The best I could manage with the always distant Linnets. The grey head and red on the breast – which cane be very bright on breeding males – are diagnostic.

No better was this distant female Yellowhammer.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

A later visit: nothing found

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 09:15 – 10:15

(87th visit of the year)

New bird species:
Yet another addition to my 2026 bird list for this site. A Sand Martin flew away over my head as I was arriving. Later at least three were seen over the water. Bird species #63 for me here. I do not see this species very often. I have only ever seen it here on Spring passage when the weather has not been sunny. My previous sighting was on 19 March 2023.

Bird notes:
- a Mute Swan flew South overhead without ever looking as if it had any intention of visiting.
- a Common Sandpiper was heard in flight but not seen.
- a Great Crested Grebe was seen on the open water. Later one was on the nesting platform – same?
- a Stock Dove was calling at the top end.
- no Sedge Warbler heard today.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 1 Mute Swan: see notes
- 1 Herring Gull: immature
- 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults, together
- 1 Sparrowhawk
- 1 Common Buzzard

Noted on / around the water:
- 11 Canada Geese: only. More inside the island?
- 5 Greylag Geese: of these a pair arrived
- 2 Mute Swans
- 25 (20♂) Mallard
- 10 (7♂) Tufted Duck
- 6 Moorhens
- 21 Coots
- 1 Great Crested Grebe: see notes
- 1 Common Sandpiper: heard only
- 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults, together briefly

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 4 Sand Martins

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 7 (7) Willow Warblers
- *8 (7) Chiffchaffs
- 9 (8) Blackcaps

Around the area later:

Nothing noted. Too chilly, windy and overcast

Another failure: I thought at long last a Willow Warbler photo. Not so. The black legs and weak supercilium mean it is "only" a Chiffchaff.

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Priorslee Lake
3 Great Crested Grebes
12 Cormorants over
3 Grey Herons
2 Tufted Duck
4 Common Sandpipers
c.6 Sand Martins
1 Swallow
Green Woodpecker
9 Blackcaps
7 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warbler
193 Jackdaws
(Ed Wilson)

The Wrekin
Tree Pipit
Pied Wagtail
Willow Tit
Marsh Tit
5 Pied Flycatchers
2 Common Redstarts
Willow Warblers
Siskins
(Ed Wilson)

2013
Priorslee Lake
2 Little Ringed Plover
6 Willow Warbler
5 Chiffchaff
1 House Martin
4 Sand Martin
(Martin Grant)

2012
Priorslee Lake
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Blackcap
Willow Tits
2 Jays
(Martin Grant)

Nedge Hill
4 Common Redstart
31 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

The Wrekin
5 Pied Flycatcher
1 Common Redstart
2 Tree Pipit
6 Willow Warbler
Marsh Tit
Goldcrest
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Siskin
Lesser Redpoll
Crossbill
(Glenn Bishton)

2011
Priorslee Lake
4 Common Sandpiper
1 Reed Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
4 Wheatear
(Ed Wilson)

2008
Priorslee Lake
1 Osprey
4 Gadwall
12 Sand Martin
2 Swallows
6 Willow Warblers
4 Chiffchaffs
1 Blackcap
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
1 Common Sandpiper
6 Willow Warbler
4 Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)

Trench Lock
5 Sand Martin
Swallows
4 Willow Warbler
2 Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Swallows
1 Willow Warbler
2 Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)

2007
Priorslee Lake
1 Pintail x Mallard
17 Tufted Duck
1 Grey Heron
2 Willow Warblers
8 Chiffchaffs
5 Blackcaps
20 Wrens
2 Linnet
6 Reed Bunting
(Martin Adlam)

Nedge Hill
2 Willow Warblers
1 Blackcap
2 Chiffchaff
1 Fieldfare
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Swallow
1 Buzzard
4 Skylark
2 Meadow Pipit
4 Yellowhammer
3 Greenfinch 3
4 Linnet
(Martin Adlam)

2006
Priorslee Lake
5 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
7 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Duck
1 Water Rail
3 Common Sandpiper
8 Chiffchaff
5 Willow Warbler
5 Blackcaps
1 Garden Warbler
3 Swallows
1 Kestrel
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Skylark
1 Willow Tit
2 Siskin
5 Reed Bunting
(Martin Adlam)

13 Apr 26

The Flash and Priorslee Balancing Lake

6.0°C > 11.0°C: Clear start with cloud bubbling up. Hail shower c.12:00. Light southerly wind, moderate in shower. Very good visibility.

[Sunrise: 06:17 BST]

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

A late start after getting a jab at the local clinic.

Another significant passage of Willow Warblers.

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 10:45 – 12:30

(88th visit of the year)

A different time-slot will have affected many of the numbers.

Bird notes:

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 3 Wood Pigeons only
That's all!

Counts from the lake area:
- 4 Canada Geese
- 2 Mute Swans: the pen on the nest throughout
- 12 (10♂) + ? (1 brood) Mallard: duckling(s) seen scampering – no idea how many
- no Tufted Duck
- 6 Moorhens: also *one road casualty in Castle Farm Way
- *32 Coots
- *6 Great Crested Grebes
- 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: all adults
- 1 Grey Heron
- no Great (White) Egret

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 2 Sand Martins: overhead during the shower only

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 8 (5) Willow Warblers
- 12 (10) Chiffchaffs
- 1 (1) Sedge Warbler
- 3 (3) Reed Warblers
- *12 (10) Blackcaps

Noted around the area later:

Butterflies:
- Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines : quicker than I was in sheltering from the hail shower

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

Hoverflies:
- *Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]

Flies:
- only unidentified flies

Sad. Lying at the side of Castle Farm Way was a dead Moorhen. I presume road-kill. This species will walk long distances even though it is a strong flyer. The head appears to be missing. However I think if it had been predated then there would be evidence on the rest of the body.

A pleasing view of a Great Crested Grebe.

Busier than the Strait of Hormuz.

With puffy clouds it was a great day to ride the thermals. Did this Common Buzzard have to be SO high up.

It goes to show, though what I am not sure. I thought I had finally latched on to a Willow Warbler in a position I could get a reasonable photo. Wrong! It is a female Blackcap!

Most times I would be pleased with this as a photo of that energetic sprite, Goldcrest. After the photos I took Saturday I am not sure why I bothered,

"I am sitting up straight and looking alert" says Mrs. Pied Wagtail. The unusually dark back suggests a male at first glance. On a male the black of the throat joins up with the black on the head and neck. The literature suggests that some, especially older, females can show black feathers on the back. Here the black on the back is not uniform which it would be on a male.

A Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris tramples all over the blossom before....

...eventually settling down to feed.

A female Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare with triangular yellow spots. About the last insect I note before the hail shower sent us all scurrying for cover.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 09:20 – 10:35

(86th visit of the year)

New bird species:
*Another addition to my 2026 bird list for this site: two Common Sandpipers were seen flying around and briefly perching on overhanging branches on the island. Bird species #62 for me here. I see this species most year, more often on Autumn passage. Strange they were here today when there was none at the Balancing Lake.

Bird notes:
- I was told that a single duckling had been seen earlier at the top end.
- a Sedge Warbler was singing again, about 50 yards from where I heard one yesterday. I would suspect this is a different individual to that recorded yesterday. I have never had records of this species on consecutive days in earlier years.

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

Noted on / around the water:
- 19 Canada Geese: of these a pair departed
- 5 Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 22 (18♂) Mallard: see notes
- 6 (4♂) Tufted Duck
- 7 Moorhens again
- *23 Coots
- no Great Crested Grebe
- *2 Common Sandpipers

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 11 (10) Willow Warblers at least
- 7 (7) Chiffchaffs
- 1 (1) Sedge Warbler again
- *9 (7) Blackcaps

Of note around the area:

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

Hoverflies:
- Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]
- *female Syrphus species either S. ribesii or S. vitripennis

Flies:
- *1 Blow-fly from the Calliphoridae family
- 1 male plumed midge Chironomus plumosus
- *1 male Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
- otherwise only unidentified flies: fewer than I expected on a sunny morning

A Coot in full cry. This one was chasing Mallard off what it regarded as its territory.

Today's highlight: here are the two Common Sandpipers, the bird on the right flying with typically bowed wings.

An unusual view with the bird on the right with the tail spread, the white tips to the tail-feathers making a fan-shape.

Because this species is usually seen flying on those bowed wings, not raised above the horizontal then the underwing pattern shown here is not often seen. I am afraid the strong contrasting sunlight has lost some of the subtlety but you get the idea.

And again.

Poking her head out of a distant clump of Ivy is a female Blackcap.

For a change it is a female Syrphus species. It will still have to be recorded as either S. ribesii or S. vitripennis because the tibia of the hind leg is not visible - the only easily(!?) seen feature to separate the females of these two species.

A Blow-fly from the Calliphoridae family. Obsidentify suggested it was one of the cluster fly genus but most (though not all) these have golden hairs on the thorax. I cannot suggest a specific identity.

A male Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Priorslee Lake
3 Great Crested Grebes
1 Grey Herons
2 Greylag Geese
1 Common Sandpiper
c.10 Sand Martins
>6 Barn Swallows
1 House Martin
2 Tawny Owls
2 Meadow Pipits
8 Blackcaps
8 Chiffchaffs
3 Willow Warbler
276 Jackdaws
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
1 Greylag Goose
1 Cackling-type Goose
17 Tufted Ducks
1 Swallow
5 Blackcap
5 Chiffchaffs
3 Willow Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

2013
Priorslee Lake
3 Little Ringed Plover
>20 Willow Warbler
(John Isherwood)

The Flash
2 Shoveler
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
2 Common Redstart
8 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

Long Lane, Wellington
47 Black-tailed Godwit
6 Ringed Plover
3 Redshank
1 Dunlin
3 Swallows
(Andy Latham)

2011
Priorslee Lake
2 House Martin
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
7 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2008
Priorslee Lake
4 Common Sandpiper
4 Gadwall
(John Isherwood)

2006
Priorslee Lake
12 Swallow
23 Sand Martin
1 House Martin
5 Great Crested Grebes
3 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Ducks
1 Water Rail
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
2 Fieldfares
3 Blackcaps
5 Chiffchaffs
6 Willow Warblers
2 Greenfinches
1 Siskin
1 Reed Bunting
(Martin Adlam)