2.0°C > 0.0°C: Broken cloud to start with a few sleet showers. Clouded after 08:00 with heavy snow for a while. Moderate / fresh NW wind. Very good visibility, became poor in snow.
Sunrise: 07:39 GMT
Priorslee Lake: 06:30 – 08:55
(21st visit of the year)
Notes from today:
- yet another adult Mute Swan this morning
- one pair of Gadwall spent a while on the grass – not sure I have ever seen them do that here before
- no Coot count: by the time I got to the dam it was snowing hard and the other end of the lake was not visible
- Magpies again started calling and leaving their roost well before light-enough to count them
and
- the lamps remain again
Today’s bird totals
Birds noted flying over / near the lake:
- 2 Greylag Geese (outbound)
- 1 Greylag x Canada Goose outbound
- 22 Canada Geese (5 groups outbound)
- 3 (1♂) Mallard
- 3 (2♂) Goosanders
- 1 Common Buzzard
- 23 Black-headed Gulls
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 2 Stock Doves
- 2 Wood Pigeons only
- >250 Jackdaws
- 32 Rooks
- 2 Greenfinches
Birds noted leaving roosts around the lake:
- [give up with the Magpies]
- 4 Redwings again
The counts from the lake area
- 11 + 4 Mute Swans
- 2 Canada Geese
- 12 (7♂) Gadwall
- 6 (4♂) Mallard
- 1 (0♂) Pochard
- 31 (16♂) Tufted Ducks
- 1 Grey Heron
- 1 Cormorant
- 1 Little Grebe
- 4 Great Crested Grebes again
- 6 Moorhens again
- Coots not counted
- 74 Black-headed Gulls
(Ed Wilson)
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On this day..........
2016Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2015
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2012
Priorslee Lake
A juvenile Iceland Gull
2nd winter Iceland Gull
A juvenile Glaucous Gull
1st winter Greater Black-backed Gull
An adult Common Gull
(Ian Grant / Roger Clay / Martin Grant / Jim Almond / Paul King)
Ringed Birds
Today Roger Clay found 75 ringed birds. Only 12 of these had he seen on previous days before. There were:
- 3 from Iceland
- 3 from Netherlands
- 3 Still to be checked and the remaining ringed birds were all from the UK
(Roger Clay)
2006
Priorslee Lake
9 Great Crested Grebes
2 Gadwall
11 Pochard
40 Tufted Ducks
144 Coots
2 Water Rails
88 Lapwing
c.500 Black-headed Gulls
63 Lesser Black-backed Gull
27 Herring Gulls.
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
c.45 Fieldfares and Redwing
450 Jackdaws
259 Rooks
250 Starling
19 Robins
16 Blackbirds
10 Song Thrushes
12 Greenfinches
33 Siskin
8 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)