30 Jun 26

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

13.0°C > 18.0°C: Early cloud produced a very light shower c.06:00 before clearing to good sunny periods. Clouded again after 09:15. Light, becoming moderate mainly southerly breeze. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 04:50 BST

* = a species photographed today
! = a first sighting of the species this year
$ = a new species for me in this area

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 04:45– 06:00 // 07:15 – 09:45

(150th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the seven Greylag Geese goslings with two extra adults present.
- yesterday's new brood of two Mallard ducklings now down to just one.
- six adult Great Crested Grebes with two trios of juveniles.
- probably the same adult Black-headed Gull appeared and disappeared several times.
- less early breeze meant fewer Swifts early: about 15. Again not so many later.
- the warbler update:
three of the Reed Warblers were singing from outside the reeds. I still did not manage to see any of them.
I did not hear the Garden Warbler possibly because I did not go close to that area this morning.
both the Common Whitethroats at the West end and along the South side were singing, the former persistently.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 83 Wood Pigeons
- 22 Jackdaws
- 5 Rooks
That's all

Counts from the lake area:
- 4 + 7 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans
- 30 (?♂) + 1 (1 brood) Mallard
- 2 Moorhens
- 53 Coots: of these at least six were obvious juveniles from four broods
- 6 + 6 (2 broods) Great Crested Grebes: as yesterday
- 1 Black-headed Gull
1 Grey Heron: early only again

Hirundines etc. noted:
- c.15 Swifts
- 2 House Martin

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 11 (10) Chiffchaffs
- 111 (11) Reed Warblers
- 10 (8) Blackcaps
- no Garden Warbler
- 2 (2) Common Whitethroats

Also noted:
Many butterflies while to sun was out. Otherwise disappointing

Butterflies:
- *1 ! Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola
- *18 Small Skipper-type Thymelicus sylvestris: by far my largest ever count of this species here. A few of these may also have been Essex Skippers: not all could be checked in detail.
- *4 Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus
- *1 ! Small White Pieris rapae
- 4 Green-veined White Pieris napi
- 10+ unidentified "whites"
- 1 Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
- 17+ Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus
- 3 Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
- *7 ! Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
- 2 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta

Moths:
In the sunny conditions most flushed moths disappeared in to the far distance

- *1 ! Common Knapweed Tortrix Eucosma hohenwartiana [was Bright Bell]
- 5 Garden Grass-moth Chrysoteuchia culmella [was Garden Grass-veneer]

Bees, wasps etc.:
- Honey Bee Apis mellifera
- Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
- Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
- *ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius

Hoverflies:
- *Bumblebee Blacklet Cheilosia illustrata
- Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
- *! Furry Dronefly Eristalis intricaria
- Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
- Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae [Migrant Hoverfly; Migrant Aphideater]
- *Common Spotted Field Syrph Eupeodes luniger [Lunuled Aphideater]
- *Common Twist-tail Sphaerophoria scripta [Long Hoverfly; Common Globetail]
- Syrphus sp. S. ribesii / S. vitripennis / S. torvus

Damsel / Dragon-flies:
Again most damselflies not checked. I am sure there are Azure Damselflies Coenagrion puella somewhere!
- Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum [Common Bluet]
- Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans [Common Bluetail]
- *Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum
- mating pair of Common Darter Sympetrum striolatum
At least two other species of large dragonfly seen in flight only/

Lacewings and other four-winged flies:
- *Common Green Lacewing Chrysoperia carnea

True flies:
a few including...
- Black Snipefly Chrysopilus cristatus
- greenbottle Lucilia sp.
- *semaphore fly Poecilobothrus nobilitatus
- * $ rust fly, possibly Psila fimetaria
- *flesh fly Sarcophaga sp., possibly S. carnaria
other unidentified flies

Bugs:
none

Beetles:
- *Common Red Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha fulva [Hogweed Bonking-beetle]

Spiders, harvestmen etc.:
- *male harvestman Leiobunum rotundum

On the West end street lamp poles around dawn:
Another blank morning

The first skipper butterfly I photographed this morning turned out to be an Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola. Like a Small Skipper T. sylvestris but with the tip of the antennae wholly black.

 Here is a Small Skipper.

And to complete the trio Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus with more shading around the wing edges. The vernacular names of this trio are misleading. The Essex Skipper is not confined to Essex and you would need a micrometer to separate Small and Large Skipper on size.

My: what a long tongue you have. Another Small Skipper.

My first confirmed Small White butterfly Pieris rapae of the year. No "veins" on the underwing and can be separated from Large White on size. This is often hard to do in practice and the most obvious distinction is that on Small White the black on the trailing edge of the wing stops before the level of the black wing spot. On Large White the black extends beyond the spot.

My first Gatekeeper butterflies Pyronia tithonus of the year appeared this morning: at least seven. A similar colour to Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina but smaller and crucially it has two white dots in the dark circle in the wing. The Meadow Brown only has one. This is a male, identified by the shading in the centre of the forewing.

A micromoth I see most years: a Common Knapweed Tortrix Eucosma hohenwartiana.

For the third consecutive day I have seen an ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius.

With waving grass somewhat blurring the photo here is a Bumblebee Blacklet Cheilosia illustrata, the only hoverfly of this genus that is easy to identify.

Not a hoverfly I see too often: this is a Furry Dronefly Eristalis intricaria...

...and from this angle shows the typical brown marks of the genus at the top of the abdomen.

A Common Spotted Field Syrph Eupeodes luniger or, as Obsidentify calls it, a Lunuled Aphideater. Note on this species, unlike the Migrant Field Syrph E. corollae, the yellow "lunules" do not wrap around the side of the abdomen but stop at the edge.

A male Common Twist-tail Sphaerophoria scripta. This species is most easily spotted by the obvious yellow scutellum (the half-moon shaped area behind the thorax) and the yellow antennae.

Trying to be camouflaged is a Black-tailed Skimmer dragonfly Orthetrum cancellatum

Perhaps a vegetarian Common Green Lacewing Chrysoperia carnea taking time off from munching aphids and getting nectar from Common Hogweed Heracleum sphondylium.

A well-posed male semaphore fly Poecilobothrus nobilitatus.

Both my apps tell me this is a rust fly. Only Obsidentify names it as Psila fimetaria. It is not shown in either the NatureSpot or eakringbirds photo galleries to allow me to confirm its identity. I am sure I have seen this fly before. I wonder what I identified it as then?

Scary! A flesh fly from the genus Sarcophaga. Out with the microscope to say which particular species if is.

There almost looks to be more individuals but as there are only four antennae this is a mating pair of Common Red Soldier Beetles Rhagonycha fulva. They are clearly botanically challenged as they are not living up to their internet name of Hogweed Bonking-beetle by using Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra instead.

A round body and black surround to the oculum (the eyes on top of the body) indicated this is a male harvestman Leiobunum rotundum. This fully a month earlier than I have recorded this species previously. Has harvest started early?

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

On my return through the tunnel council workers were painting the wall to obliterate the often obscene scribblings of the mindless.

Moths:
- 1 Garden Grass-moth Chrysoteuchia culmella [was Garden Grass-veneer]
- *1 Common Grey Scoparia ambigualis
- *2 Small Fan-footed Wave Idaea biselata
- *1 Riband Wave Idaea aversata nominate form aversata

Flies:
- 8 midges of several species
- 2 moth fly Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly or Owl Fly]
- *1 cranefly Nephrotoma quadrifaria

Warming its feet on one of the strip-lighting covers was this Common Grey moth Scoparia ambigualis

One of two Small Fan-footed Wave moths Idaea biselata in the tunnel. One on the wall and this one on the ceiling.

On the ceiling I found this Riband Wave moth Idaea aversata of the less common nominate form aversata with the area between the two cross-lines filled in.

For comparison here is a Riband Wave moth of the form remutata taken at The Flash this morning. I was tempted to suggest it was the one I photographed yesterday as it was on the same street lamp pole. When I passed by the pole an hour later it had gone.

The combination of abdomen and wing markings identify this as the cranefly Nephrotoma quadrifaria.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:05 – 07:10

(147th visit of the year)

The path across the bridges still firmly shut.

Bird notes:
- counting the geese was, as always a challenge. With the footbridges closed some had decided to go in to the cut-offs where they were hard to see.
- I think ten Mute Swans. There were eight on the open water and probably two seen around the island at different times. At least neither of these seemed be slumped down as I suspected the previous two days.
- I did not see the duck Mallard with her partly-grown ducklings. *I noted a small group of fully grown birds keeping close-company and all with duck(female)-like plumage suggesting they might be from the same brood. If so where have they come from? Are they able to fly? Some Mallard certainly can and do fly as a very few still appear on roof-tops,
- a small arrival of Tufted Duck. I am not attempting to sex all of them as they go through their moult.
- *Coots have begun their usual post-breeding gathering along the East side of the island, all bunched up (no more testosterone) and hard to count.
- no Great Crested Grebe seen.
- a Grey Heron was on the edge of the island again.

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

Noted on / around the water:
- 176 + 1 (1 brood) Canada Geese
- 116 Greylag Geese
- 10? Mute Swans: see notes
- *19 (?♂) Mallard
- 12 (?♂) Tufted Duck
- 4 Moorhens
- *48 adult and immature Coots: eight of these juveniles from six late broods
- no Great Crested Grebes
- 1 Grey Heron

Hirundines etc. noted:
These appeared overhead as the light shower faded away and were seen no more.
- 3 Swifts
- 3 House Martins

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 2 (2) Chiffchaffs
- 5 (4) Blackcaps

Noted around the area:
Conditions were poor at the time I was here.

Moths:
- 2 Garden Grass-moth Chrysoteuchia culmella [was Garden Grass-veneer]
- *1 Riband Wave Idaea aversata form remutata
- 1 Small Fan-footed Wave Idaea biselata
- *1 Swallow Prominent Pheosia tremula

Bees, wasps etc.:
none

Hoverflies:
none

Other flies:
- 1 larva of a mayfly Caenis sp. If the same as yesterday it had moved several feet up the street lamp pole.
- 1 Black Snipefly Chrysopilus cristatus

Beetles:
- 1 Rough-haired Lagria Beetle Lagria hirta

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

This group of four Mallard were keeping close together and may well be siblings. If so I did not see them growing up from ducklings. Of the right hand trio the back two have pale bills suggesting they will moult in to drakes; the other the pale-edged bill of a duck. I am not sure about the left-most bird. None of them looks to have flight feathers.

At the end of the breeding season Coots congregate on the East side of the island – as here. I make it 19 (and one Mute Swan, likely the resident pen).

I found this Swallow Prominent moth Pheosia tremula where I see a few every year: on one or other of the two street lamp poles in the wooded area top left. This species is bivoltine (it has two generations each year). Since I saw one at the Balancing Lake in April this must be from a second generation specimen.

(Ed Wilson)

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2010
Priorslee Lake
Common Sandpiper
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
1 drake Ruddy Duck
(Ed Wilson)

29 Jun 26

Priorslee Balancing Lake and The Flash

12.0°C > 17.0°C: Mostly clear to start. Broken cloud soon arrived from the West. Later it became even more cloudy. Light / moderate south-westerly breeze. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 04:49 BST again

* = a species photographed today
! = a first sighting of the species this year
$ = a new species for me in this area

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 04:45– 05:55 // 07:05 – 10:00

(149th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the seven Greylag Geese goslings with two extra adults present.
- *a new brood of Mallard ducklings: just two!
- as yesterday seven adult Great Crested Grebes with two trios of juvenile.
- an adult Black-headed Gull was hawking insects along with a recently fledged juvenile when I arrived: they did not stay. A few adults came and went later.
- *at least 30 Swifts were in a swirling party over the East end early. Fewer later when they were joined by at least eight House Martins. Just one Barn Swallow noted
- the warbler update:
no Cetti's Warbler again.
the Garden Warbler was in full song at c.09:25 in the same location as yesterday.
a Common Whitethroat at the West end sang briefly c.09:35.
- more Jackdaws today as I arrive earlier in "sun time" and see more of the roost dispersal passing over.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 49 Wood Pigeons
- 37 Jackdaws
- 3 Rooks again

Counts from the lake area:
- 4 + 7 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- *2 Mute Swans
- *30 (?♂) + 2 (1 brood) Mallard
- 3 Moorhens
- 48 adult and immature Coots
- *7 + 6 (2 broods) Great Crested Grebes: as yesterday
- 6 + 1 juvenile Black-headed Gulls: see notes
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
1 Grey Heron: early only

Hirundines etc. noted:
- *c.30 Swifts
- 1 Barn Swallow
- 8 House Martin

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 9 (9) Chiffchaffs
- 10 (10) Reed Warblers
- 13 (10) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Common Whitethroat

Also noted:
Again not too much in the cloudy and then drizzly conditions

Butterflies:
- *1 Green-veined White Pieris napi
- *14 Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus
- 1 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta

Moths:
- *1 Italian Bark Moth Metalampra italica [previously Italian Tubic]
- 1 Garden Straw Agapeta hamana [was Common Yellow Conch; Hook-marked Straw-moth]
- 1 Common Marble Celypha lacunana
- 11 Garden Grass-moth Chrysoteuchia culmella [was Garden Grass-veneer]
- 1 White-banded Grass-moth Crambus pascuella [was Inlaid Grass-veneer]
- *4 Shaded Broad-bar Scotopteryx chenopodiata

Bees, wasps etc.:
- *$? mining bee Andrena sp., just possibly Wilke's Mining Bee A. wilkella
- Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
- Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
- *! Willow Mason Wasp Symmorphus bifasciatus
- ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius

Hoverflies:
- Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
- Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
- Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae [Migrant Hoverfly; Migrant Aphideater]
- Meadow Field Syrph Eupeodes latifasciatus [Broad-banded Aphideater]
- *!? possible Variable Duskyface Melanostoma mellinum [Short Melanostoma]
- *! White-clubbed Glasswing Scaeva pyrastri [White-bowed Smoothwing] [was Pied Hoverfly]
- Common Twist-tail Sphaerophoria scripta [Long Hoverfly; Common Globetail]
- Syrphus sp. S. ribesii / S. vitripennis / S. torvus

Damsel / Dragon-flies:
again most damselflies not checked
- Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum [Common Bluet]
- Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans [Common Bluetail]

Other flies:
a range of species including...
- soldier fly Broad Centurian Chloromyia formosa
- Black Snipefly Chrysopilus cristatus
- long-legged fly Dolichopus ungulatus or similar
- greenbottle Lucilia sp.
- *$ soldier fly Pachygaster leachii
- *semaphore fly Poecilobothrus nobilitatus
- Marsh Snipefly Rhagio tringarius
other unidentified flies

Bugs:
- *Common Froghopper Philaenus spumarius

Beetles:
- 7 Spot Ladybird Coccinella 7-punctata
- Rough-haired Lagria Beetle Lagria hirta
- Common Red Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha fulva [Hogweed Bonking-beetle]

New flower:
- *$ Amphibious Bistort Persicaria amphibia

On the West end street lamp poles around dawn:

Moths:
- 1 Ghost Moth Hepialus humuli: yesterday's female trussed up in a web.
That's all.

This morning's sunrise. Cloud soon arrived from the West.

The new brood of just two Mallard ducklings with their mother.

Safety in numbers especially with the Mute Swans to deter wayward dogs. Fourteen of the thirty adult Mallard present at the lake are in this view (you have to look hard to see the 14th hiding behind Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris).

"Feed me Mum!". An adult, I assume the female with the male a distance away fishing, from the second pair of Great Crested Grebe to produce young. A growing trio.

Swifts have fork-tails...

...or do they?! I have never seen one flare its tail like this before.

A Green-veined White butterfly Pieris napi showing its, er, "green" veins.

I noted no fewer than fourteen Ringlet butterflies Aphantopus hyperantus this morning. Smart.

What was most likely yesterday's female Ghost Moth Hepialus humuli now trussed up in a web.

An Italian Bark Moth Metalampra italica. A tiny moth, here on the "flowers" of Common or Stinging Nettle Urtica dioica. It was difficult to persuade the camera to focus on the moth – a recent (natural) invasive species from the Continent.

My first Shaded Broad-bar moth Scotopteryx chenopodiata of the year. A smart-looking specimen...

...unlike this one!

It is a mining bee in the Andrena genus: but which. It is just possible, thanks to Google Lens, it is a Wilke's Mining Bee A. wilkella though to be sure I would have needed to see the whole of the abdomen as see that the pale hairs between some of the body segments (tergites) were broken in the middle. It would be a new species for me of this very difficult group.

This is what Steven Falk calls a Willow Mason Wasp Symmorphus bifasciatus. I saw one here on the same date last year.

I have struggled with the identification of this apparently deceased hoverfly. My best call is a male Variable Duskyface Melanostoma mellinum also known as Short Melanostoma. I reached the conclusion because the wings look too short for a male Chequered Hoverfly M. scalare, also known as Long-winged Duskyface. I spent ages looking and comparing all the photos in Steven Falk's gallery and remain puzzled by the width of the black areas between the yellow spots on the abdomen. None of the examples for either species have such extensive black areas.

In flight this hoverfly had striking pale lemon yellow markings. It would not perch showing those marks and this was the only photo I managed before it flew off in to the far distance. Enough to identify it as a White-clubbed Glasswing Scaeva pyrastri which Obsidentify calls White-bowed Smoothwing.

Another fly species I have not recorded previously. It is the soldier fly Pachygaster leachii with clear wings and orange at the base of its antennae.

On the left a male semaphore fly Poecilobothrus nobilitatus. I assume the fly on the right is a female with only a slight paleness to her wing tips. The different abdomen colour is due to the different angle of light on these metallic-looking insects.

A Common Froghopper Philaenus spumarius for some reason resting ten feet up a street lamp pole. A ling way to hop.

Another Rough-haired Lagria Beetle Lagria hirta

A new flower for me but one I have likely overlooked. Growing in the water's edge is Amphibious Bistort Persicaria amphibia. I will have to recheck the species that grows in the damp areas around the lake and which I have previously identified as Bistort Polygonum bistorta.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Moths:
- 1 Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella
- *1 ! Small Fan-footed Wave Idaea biselata

Flies:
- 13 midges of several species
- 3 moth fly Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly or Owl Fly]

My first Small Fan-footed Wave moth Idaea biselata of the year on the ceiling here.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 06:00 – 07:00 again

(146th visit of the year)

The path across the bridges still firmly shut.

Bird notes:
- just seven Mute Swans confirmed. The six visitors toward the top end. What I took to be the resident pen slumped in the same place on the edge of the island as yesterday. I did not see any others.
- the duck Mallard still has the six partly-grown ducklings. I did not see any other duckling.
- only two Great Crested Grebes confirmed.
- a Grey Heron was on the edge of the island

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Jackdaws

Noted on / around the water:
- 181 + 1 (1 brood) Canada Geese
- 102 Greylag Geese
- 7 Mute Swans: see notes
- 25 (?♂) + 6 (1 brood) Mallard
- *8 (6♂) Tufted Duck
- 4 Moorhens: one of these a well-grown juvenile
- 26 adult and immature Coots: one of these a small juvenile
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 1 Grey Heron

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 7 House Martins
where have the Swifts gone?

Warblers noted (the number in brackets refers to birds singing):
- 1 (1) Chiffchaff only again
- 3 (3) Blackcaps again

Noted around the area:
Generally fewer insects in the overcast conditions.

Moths:
a good range of moths on and around the street lamp poles...
- *1 Bird-cherry Ermine Yponomeuta evonymella
- *7 Garden Grass-moth Chrysoteuchia culmella [was Garden Grass-veneer]
- *1 White-banded Grass-moth Crambus pascuella [was Inlaid Grass-veneer]
- *1 ! Chevron Grass Moth Agriphila geniculea [was Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer]
- 1 Common Grey Scoparia ambigualis
- 1 Treble Brown Spot Idaea trigeminata
- *1 Riband Wave Idaea aversata form remutata

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An update on the moth I photographed last Thursday that Obsidentify was a 100% sure was a Giant Water-veneer Schoenobius gigantella but I thought more likely a Reed Veneer Chilo phragmitella. Both species are very rare in this part of the country so the Shropshire recorder tells me he has been casting around with others more familiar with the two species. The consensus is that it is NOT a Reed Veneer but because of its rarity the specimen would have needed examination for it to be accepted as a Giant Water-veneer. Sad but adds to the knowledge of what might be around.
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Bees, wasps etc.:
- 2 Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Hoverflies:
- >5 Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus

Other flies:
- *1 larva of a mayfly Caenis sp.
- 1 Black Snipefly Chrysopilus cristatus

It is becoming difficult to sex the Tufted Duck (as well as the Mallard) as they undertake their annual moult. This drake has lost his gleaming white flanks.

High up on a street lamp pole in squirrel alley I noted this Bird-cherry Ermine moth Yponomeuta evonymella.

A Garden Grass-moth Chrysoteuchia culmella. Apropos my comment yesterday on the white "fingers" I now realise this just indicates a worn specimen and not necessarily a different species.

A different "grass moth": this a White-banded Grass-moth Crambus pascuella that used to called Inlaid Grass-veneer.

Yet another species of "grass moth": the faint cross-line in the middle of the wing makes this a Chevron Grass Moth Agriphila geniculea. It used to be known as an Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer.

A Riband Wave moth Idaea aversata of the form remutata where the area between the two obvious cross-lines is not solid dark brown. This form seem to predominate in our area.

This is the larva of a mayfly Caenis sp. It seems unusual in having five tails rather than the normal three. I did not expect to find this at eye-level on a street lamp pole, albeit only a short distance from the water.

(Ed Wilson)

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2013
Priorslee Lake
15 Cormorants
(Ed Wilson)

2011
Priorslee Lake
Common Sandpiper
(Ed Wilson)

2010
Priorslee Lake
Juvenile Yellow Wagtail
(Ed Wilson)

2009
Priorslee Lake
Siskin
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
2 drake Ruddy Ducks
(Ed Wilson)