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The rain brought in c.40 Swifts, 8 Barn Swallows and c.20 House Matins: also 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the water for a while.
The rain was perhaps also responsible for the distinctly out of season pair of Linnets in the trees at the W end: these turned out to be my first of this year from the lake (all the others were in Woodhouse Lane area).
Also present was a late Common Sandpiper.
(56th visit of the year)
Notes
Both pairs of Great Crested Grebes with young but conditions too poor to get a count.
A female Mallard with 8 well-grown ducklings again.
3 Tufted Ducks hanging on.
Coots not counted: no juveniles seen.
No other gulls.
Juvenile Willow Tits seen, so this decreasing species still doing OK here.
and
The same Poplar Hawk-moth in the same place in the Priorslee Avenue tunnel.
Counts
4 +? (2 broods) Great Crested Grebes
1 Cormorant over
2 + 2 Swans
3 (1) + 8 (1 brood) Mallard
3 (1) Tufted Ducks
2 Moorhens
? Coots
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
>40 Common Swifts
8 Barn Swallows
>20 House Martin
9 (9) Song Thrushes
2 (2) Reed Warbler
2 (2) Common Whitethroats
1 (1) Garden Warbler
9 (8) Blackcaps
4 (4) Chiffchaffs
Small corvid roost dispersal: 31 Jackdaws and 4 Rooks
2 (2) Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)
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Notes
Definitely 2 broods of Coots today.
The Willow Warbler not heard today.
Counts
2 Great Crested Grebes
1 Grey Heron over
1 + 1 Swans
2 Greylag Geese
1 Cackling Goose
52 Canada Geese
The all-white feral goose
7 (6) Mallard
Both the all-white and mainly dark feral Mallard-type ducks seen
2 (1) Tufted Ducks
4 Moorhens
8 + 6 (2 broods) Coots
No gulls
and
2 (2) Song Thrushes
4 (4) Blackcap
3 (3) Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)