20 Feb 19

Priorslee Lake and The Flash

Priorslee Lake:  06:10 – 09:20
The Flash:  09:25 – 10:15

7.0°C > 8.0°C:  Early light rain; stayed cloudy throughout. Moderate SSW wind later. Very good visibility

Sunrise: 07:17 GMT

Priorslee Lake:  06:10 – 09:20

(48th visit of the year)

Bird notes
- now 6 Great Crested Grebes with 4 birds acting as two pairs
- most Black-headed Gulls arrived and stayed for some reason
- almost all the 74 Wood Pigeons that flew over went E. These may been in the >400 birds seen put up from Ward’s Rough to the NE later
- checked the Magpie roost this morning: 46 is fewer than I have recorded in previous years. I have logged over 80 birds some recent winters
- huge number of Jackdaws today

Bird totals

Birds noted flying over or flying near the lake
- 14 Canada Geese (14 outbound)
- 1 Cormorant again
- 72 Black-headed Gulls
- 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Stock Dove yet again
- 74 Wood Pigeons
- c.1120 Jackdaws!!
- c.45 Rooks
- 3 Pied Wagtails
- 1 Siskin again

Birds recorded leaving roosts around the lake
- 46 Magpies
- 3 Reed Buntings only

The counts from the lake area:
- 1 Mute Swan still
- 6 (5♂) Mallard
- 1 Grey Heron
- 6 Great Crested Grebes
- 10 Moorhens
- 29 Coots
- 122 Black-headed Gulls only

The lamp poles contained a White-legged Snake Millipede (Tachypodoiulus niger)

The Mute Swan was being very cooperative this morning, preening to show its BTO ring number .Z8529.

A (very small) White-legged Snake Millipede (Tachypodoiulus niger) on one of the lamp-posts.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:  09:25 – 10:15

(43rd visit of the year)

Notes from here:
- just about the same as yesterday: two Pochard and a few Tufted Duck seem to have left
and
- another Dotted Border moth on a different lamp post
- a Grey Squirrel again

Birds noted flying over / near The Flash
- 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

The counts from the water
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans
- 20 Canada Geese
- 2 (1♂) Gadwall again
- 33 (22♂) Mallard
- 1 (1♂) Shoveler still
- 2 (2♂) Pochard
- 59 (34♂) Tufted Ducks
- 1 Cormorant again
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 3 Moorhens
- 32 Coots
- 37 Black-headed Gulls

This morning’s Dotted Border moth.

(Ed Wilson)

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On this day..........

2016
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here

2015
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here

2014
Priorslee Lake
5 Pochard
7 Tufted Duck
13 Redwings
227 Jackdaws
172 Rooks
Meadow Pipit
5 Siskins
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
2 Pochard
174 Tufted Ducks
2 Goosanders
(Ed Wilson)

2013
Priorslee Lake
2 Gadwall
29 Wigeon
2 Great Black-backed Gulls
1 Yellow-legged Gull
(JW Reeves, John Isherwood)

Holmer Lake
2 Goosander
Little Grebe
(John Isherwood)

Horsehay Pool
1 Yellow-legged Gull
(JW Reeves)

2009
Priorslee Lake
Kumlien's Gull
(Peter Wilson/Dawn Balmer )

2007
Priorslee Lake
1 Pochard 
13 Tufted Ducks
1 Curlew
c.620 Black-headed Gulls
68 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
146 Wood Pigeons
34 Robins
18 Blackbirds
15 Song Thrushes
8 Redwings
193 Jackdaws
101 Rooks
12 Greenfinches
11 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
7 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
3 Cormorants
2 Gadwall
10 Pochard
27 Tufted Ducks
122 Coots
963 Wood Pigeons
17 Pied Wagtails
14 Greenfinches
62 Siskins
1 Redpoll
4 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)