Priorslee Lake: 06:30 – 08:55
The Flash: 09:00 – 10:10
7°C > 8°C: Persistent and often heavy showers until c.08:45. Then clear. Moderate, sometimes fresh and gusty, WNW wind. Very good visibility except in heaviest rain
Sunrise: 08:09 GMT
Priorslee Lake: 06:30 – 08:55
(175th visit of the year)
I had just about finished struggling to count most things when the weather cleared
Other bird notes:
- back to 4 pairs of Gadwall
- Tufted Duck once more counted in sections
Bird totals
Birds noted flying over or flying near the lake
- 10 Canada Geese [1 group outbound]
- 4 Goosanders (3♂)
- 1 Stock Dove
- 2 Wood Pigeons only
- 164 Jackdaws
- 2 Redwings
Birds recorded leaving roosts around the lake
- 2 Redwings
- 1 Reed Bunting
The counts from the lake area:
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans remain
- 2 Canada Geese
- 8 (4♂) Gadwall
- 7 (5♂) Mallard
- 11 (8♂) Pochard
- 67 (29♂) Tufted Ducks
- 1 Grey Heron
- 1 Little Grebe again
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 10 Moorhens
- [Coots not counted]
- >190 Black-headed Gulls
My log of other things
when I checked the lamp poles between showers I expected everything to have been blown / washed off, but ...
- 1 Winter Moth
- 1 Mottled Umber moth: same as last 2 days, sheltered
- 1 harvestman (Paroligolophus agrestis)
- 1 un-identified Muscid fly
later
- 1 Winter Moth flushed from the vegetation
(Ed Wilson)
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The Flash: 09:00 – 10:10
(136th visit of the year)
Another amazing count of Goosanders: at least 112 for a while. Other(?) birds seen in flight overhead may have been a few more arriving. At least 41 were drakes
Later 54 Tufted Duck arrived. I assume these were birds flushed off the lake by whatever the Sailing Club are up to today
Also as the weather finally cleared some overhead passage was noted
Other bird notes from here
- I twice heard what sounded like Greylag Geese but was unable to locate them
- the sunny weather prompted 2 Coal Tits to sing
- Grey Wagtail around the house roofs
Birds noted flying over / near The Flash
- >7 (?♂) Goosanders (or did these land?)
- 1 Sparrowhawk
- 1 Common Buzzard
- 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Feral Pigeon again
- 29 Wood Pigeons (2 groups)
- 2 Fieldfares (with Redwings)
- 31 Redwings (3 groups)
The counts from the water
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans as usual
- ? Greylag Geese (see notes)
- 2 Canada Geese
- 39 (24♂) Mallard
- 10 (6♂) > 64 (32) Tufted Ducks
- >112 (>41♂) Goosanders
- 1 Cormorant
- 2 Grey Herons
- 1 Great Crested Grebe as usual
- 2 Moorhens
- 11 Coots
- 31 Black-headed Gulls
Some of the arriving Tufted Ducks circle while they work out where to land.
And around they go...
(Ed Wilson)
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On this day..........
2017Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2016
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2015
Priorslee Lake
Today's sightings Here
2014
Priorslee Lake
Today's sightings Here
2012
Priorslee Lake
1 Little Grebe
1 Little Egret
3 Gadwall
3 Pochard
34 Tufted Ducks
169 Coots
c.233 Wood Pigeons
6 Redwings
1 Fieldfare
c.800 Jackdaws
137 Rooks
16 Siskins
2 Linnets
1 Redpoll
(Ed Wilson)
Trench Lock Pool
39 Tufted Duck
1 Goldeneye
162 Coots counted again
(Ed Wilson)
2009
Priorslee Lake
1 Little Grebe
4 Great Crested Grebes
38 Swans
34 Pochard
45 Tufted Ducks
2 Water Rails
c.1800 Black-headed Gulls
210 Lesser Black-backs
8 Herring Gulls
1 Great Black-backed Gull
14 Redwings
1 Siskin flew over
(Ed Wilson)
2006
Priorslee Lake
1 Little Grebe
12 Pochard
56 Tufted Ducks
1 drake Ruddy Ducks
2 Goosanders
3 Lapwings
1 Snipe
>1700 Black-headed Gulls
865 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
22 Robins
22 Blackbirds
6 Redwings
243 Jackdaws
133 Rooks
1 Brambling
4 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)
2005
Priorslee Lake
2500 Black-headed Gulls
250 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
2 Little Grebes
11 Pochard
34 Tufted Duck
237 Coot
2 Redpolls
24 Siskins
2 Redwings
3 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)