Sunrise: 05:13 BST
16°C > 19°C. Variable amounts of cloud and some sunny spells. Calm start with very light S wind later. Very good visibility
(75th visit of the year)
Notes
- 3 Tufted Duck ducklings still around
Birds noted flying over
None
Hirundines etc. seen here today
- 8 Swifts
- House Martins heard only
Warblers seen / heard around the water: numbers in brackets are singing birds
- 1 (0) Chiffchaff
- 3 (3) Blackcaps
The counts from the water
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans
- 54 Greylag Geese
- 50 Canada Geese
- 1 all white feral-goose
- 18 (13♂) Mallard
- 22 (11♂) + 3 (1 brood) Tufted Ducks
- 1 Grey Heron
- 2 + 1 Great Crested Grebes again
- 2 Moorhens
- 20 + 5 (2 broods) Coots
- 15 Black-headed Gulls (2 juveniles)
The Tufted Duck family
(Ed Wilson)
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Priorslee Lake: 07:25 – 09:25
(110th visit of the year)
Notes from today
- the Swan did not seem really too concerned about either the Greylag or the Canada Geese
- another new brood of Coots: both of yesterday’s new broods already lots one of their number
- 49 mainly white / very pale birds flew S in a tight group – not the usual direction for racing pigeons
- 2 Kingfishers heard and then seen chasing in flight
- family party of Goldcrests seen
- family party of Dunnocks seen
- 4 juvenile Pied Wagtails from another recent brood together
and
- the lamps today held a Riband Wave, a Yellow-tail, a Beauty sp., and a
- grass moths Pearl Veneer (Agriphila straminella); the micro moth Pale Straw Pearl (Udea lutealis); and Shaded Broad-bar moths all flushed from the grass
- Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Large White, Small White, Green-veined White, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown and Ringlet butterflies all logged. Both Large Skipper and Red Admiral were new for my Priorslee 2016 list
- the lone Ringlet butterfly was very worn and this species is likely about finished this year
- Common Blue and Blue-tailed Damselflies as usual
- Common Darter dragonfly also seen
- Black-tailed Skimmers seen: new for the year here
- two more species of hawker dragonfly seen – but they shot by too quickly to ID
- a whole slew of small flies with white wing-tips that they seemed to wave in a display as they jumped about on the margins of the water. These were Poecilobothrus nobilitatus.
Counts of birds flying over the lake (in addition to those on / around lake)
- 51 Feral Pigeons
- 1 Stock Dove
- 8 Wood Pigeons
[- no Jackdaws or Rooks]
- 1 Goldfinch
Hirundines etc. seen here today
- 3 Swifts
- 1 Swallow
- 3 House Martins
Warblers seen / heard around the lake: numbers in brackets are singing birds
- 6 (2) Chiffchaffs
- 8 (3) Blackcaps
- 4 (0) Common Whitethroat
- 5 (2) Reed Warblers
The counts from the lake area
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans
- 1 Greylag Goose
- 4 Canada Geese
- 32 (?♂) Mallard
- 9 (6♂) Tufted Ducks
- 1 juvenile Grey Heron again
- 6 + 4 (2 broods) Great Crested Grebes
- 3 + 3 (2 broods) Moorhens again
- 41 + 17 (11 broods) Coots
- 28 Black-headed Gulls (1 juvenile)
- 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
A Buzzard on a lamp post along Teece Drive. Did not fly off immediately as they usually do.
An immature bird I am sure.
Ruby Tiger moth on one of the lamps
You can just about see the yellow tail on the Yellow-tail moth.
A drake Mallard mainly in eclipse plumage but with a vestige of green sheen.
A male Black-tailed Skimmer.
Gatekeeper butterfly
Common Darter dragonfly
(Ed Wilson)
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2011
Priorslee Lake
1 Kingfisher
Female Ruddy Duck
(John Isherwood)
2009
Priorslee Lake
1 Kingfisher
(Ed Wilson)
2006
Priorslee Lake
A drake Ruddy Duck
(Ed Wilson)
Priorslee Lake
1 Kingfisher
Female Ruddy Duck
(John Isherwood)
2009
Priorslee Lake
1 Kingfisher
(Ed Wilson)
2006
Priorslee Lake
A drake Ruddy Duck
(Ed Wilson)