31 Oct 19

Priorslee Lake, The Flash, Trench Lock Pool and Trench Middle Pool

Priorslee Lake:  05:45 –09:10
The Flash:  09:15 – 10:10
Trench Lock Pool:  10:20 – 10:30 // 11:20 – 11:40
Trench Middle Pool:  10:35 –11:15

5.0°C > 9.0°C:  Broken medium-level cloud. A few spits of rain later. Light / moderate ESE wind. Moderate visibility in haze.

Sunrise: 07:04 GMT

Priorslee Lake:  05:45 –09:10

(258th visit of the year)

Bird notes from today:
- Drake (Eurasian) Wigeon a new arrival.
- Now four Pochard.
- As yesterday a few Lesser Black-backed Gulls arrived from the W preceding the Black-headed Gulls.
- Starling numbers particularly hard to judge this morning. At least 400 left in a big rush together at 06:45. They broke in to two main groups which proceeded to do murmuration flights, including over the water – unusual on exit from roost? During this time they were bisected by a group of 60 Jackdaws which diverted my attention. Were there more birds emerging? Or were the original birds still orientating? Whatever: another 42 birds left in singles or small groups over the next 15 minutes.
- Well after roost-dispersal c.20 Starlings were in trees alongside Castle Farm Way. Most unusual.
- A small arrival of Blackbirds with 22 recorded – about double the number seen on recent days. Eight of these birds were flushed as they fed on the ground in the N side copse.

Bird totals:

Birds noted flying over or flying near the lake:
- 1 Sparrowhawk
- 2 Black-headed Gulls
- 59 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: mainly adults
- 1 Feral Pigeon
- 370 Wood Pigeons: 343 of these in 13 migrant groups heading ‘SW’
- 97 Jackdaws
- 1 Rook again
- 1 Raven
- 53 Starlings (4 groups)
- 1 Fieldfare
- 75 Redwings (8 groups)
- >11 Pied Wagtails
- 1 Linnet

Birds logged leaving roosts around the lake:
- >>450 Starlings (see notes)
- 5 Redwings
- 17 Reed Buntings

Counts from the lake area:
- 2 + 5 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 1 (1♂) (Eurasian) Wigeon
- 8 (4♂) Gadwall
- 11 (7♂) Mallard
- 4 (2♂) Pochard
- 31 (20♂) Tufted Ducks
- 1 Cormorant yet again
- 2 Grey Herons again
- 2 Little Grebes
- 10 Great Crested Grebes again
- 6 Moorhens
- 139 Coots
- c.70 Black-headed Gulls
- 24 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 3 Herring Gulls: all first-winter birds

Lamp poles pre-dawn revealed:
- 3 November Moth-types (Epirrita sp.) again: differing locations from yesterday
- 1 Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
- 3 Nursery Web Spiders (Pisaura mirabilis)
- 1 rather small stretch spider Tetragnatha sp.
- 7 Paroligolophus agrestis harvestmen
- 1 unidentified gnat sp.

Later sightings:
- 1 Grey Squirrel

Eventually we got a rather hazy sunrise on a rather murky morning. You may be able to spot a Carrion Crow in the tree tops.

Well it is still quite dark at 06:45. This at least gives an impression of one of the big groups of Starlings just after they left the roost and while they were still deciding which way to go. I am not sad-enough to try and count these blurred images but >250 seems a good approximation.

The ‘other’ group.

This I did not expect – wheeling around at low-level over the water. I am not sure whether this is one of the earlier groups or group #3.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:  09:15 – 10:10

(244th visit of the year)

Notes from here:
- 2 Collared Doves flying in to the island were my first here for some weeks. During summer I saw them daily, often as many as six birds with several calling from roofs. Where have they gone?
- At least 20 Goldfinches flitting about. Presumed feeding in the Alders on the island.

Bird noted flying over / near The Flash:
- 1 Common Buzzard
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls again
- 19 Jackdaws

Counts from the water:
- 3 Mute Swans as ever
- 38 Canada Geese
- 1 Feral / hybrid-type goose again
- 35 (22♂) Mallard
- 1 (1♂) Pochard once more
- 55 (>23♂) Tufted Duck
- 4 (0♂) Goosander
- 3 Great Crested Grebes again
- 6 Moorhens
- 16 Coots
- 21 Black-headed Gulls
- 1 Kingfisher

Other things:
- on the usual lamp pole
        - 1 Dicranopalpus ramosus harvestman again
- nothing on lamp poles in squirrel alley
- elsewhere on lamp poles
- 1 Paroligolophus agrestis harvestman
- on the bank of Ivy: almost no sun and chill wind so low count
        - 7 wasps
        - [no flies noted]
- and
        Two species of fungus on a different fallen and decaying tree trunk.

The Canada Goose at the back shows white over the bill and a touch below the eye. Not noticed this bird before and no idea why – probably just a touch of albinism. The strange thing was that later when all the geese were apparently much closer I could not re-find it.

All four Goosanders today were ‘brownheads’ and I think all were ducks (rather than immatures). Here one sorts its wing-feathers out after a spell of preening.

Here are the other two, one still preening.

Enlarged to show some plumage detail. The lack of any white stripe running between the bill-base to below the eye suggests these are adult ducks.

Appears to be two different fungus here. The lower one a typical bracket fungus though I was not able to get underneath it to check. The two smaller fruiting bodies seem to be the same as ....

.. these alongside. They have gills so these at least are not bracket fungus. As usual I have failed to identify either species.

(Ed Wilson)

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Trench Lock Pool:  10:20 – 10:30 // 11:20 – 11:40

(47th visit of the year)

All roadworks on the approach to the Blue Pig now complete. The small development of houses behind the Blue Pig is at long last more or less complete though the site is still locked up.

Notes from here. It is becoming increasingly difficult to think of anything given the continuing dearth of birds:
- The adult Mute Swan perhaps the bird last seen at Middle Pool. Would not come close-enough to see whether it was ringed.

No birds noted flying over / near here [other than local Wood Pigeons and Jackdaws].

Counts from the water:
- 1 Mute Swan
- 13 Canada Geese
- 15 (9♂) Mallard
- 6 Great Crested Grebes: 2 adults, 2 juveniles, 2 undetermined
- 2 Moorhens
- 8 Coots
- 2 Black-headed Gulls
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: departed

(Ed Wilson)

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Trench Middle Pool:  10:35 –11:15

(47th visit of the year)

Work continues to stabilise the N side embankment .....

Notes from here:
- The all-white bird that I have previously logged as feral duck is I am sure a goose. It was with the very similar-sized Greylags and was calling very like them. It shares their all-orange bill.
- Two of the Mallard were ostensibly in duck plumage but showed unmarked pale-yellow bills suggesting late-brood drakes yet to undergo moult.
- A party of at least 20 Goldfinches flitting about the trees
and
- 2 November Moth-types (Epirrita sp.) on a lamp-pole: moth species #8 here in 2019
- 1 Green-brindled Crescent moth (Allophyes oxyacanthae) on another lamp pole: moth species #9 here in 2019 and new for me here.

Birds noted flying over / near here:
None

Counts from the water:
- 35 Greylag Geese
- 45 Canada Geese
- 1 Greylag x Canada Goose
- 1 all-white feral Goose-type (see notes)
- 35 (22♂) Mallard
- 9 (4♂) Tufted Duck
- 4 (3♂) Goosander
- 2 Great Crested Grebes: 1 adult + ?
- 16 Moorhens
- 41 Coots
- 2 Black-headed Gulls

The Greylag x Canada Goose here looks rather familiar. It has been at The Flash recently.

Drake Goosanders dominated here.

This moth was a long way up a lamp pole in a dingy corner and with spider webs all around that the camera insisted on focussing on. It is a Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae): my second of the year and only my second ever in Shropshire. Unlike the grey morph seen at the lake on 2nd October this at least shows a tinge of green.

(Ed Wilson)

Note

Here are a few images from Venus Pool on Sunday 27 Oct. Click here.

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

2018
Priorslee 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

2013
Candles Landfill Site
2nd winter Caspian Gull
8 Yellow-legged Gulls
Great Black-backed Gull
c.700 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
(Tom Lowe)

2010
Priorslee Lake
Chiffchaff
Mistle Thrush
29 Fieldfares
32 Redwings
13 Siskins
3 Linnets
(Ed Wilson)

2009
Priorslee Lake
1 Shoveler
5 Wigeon
(John Isherwood)

2005
Trench Pool
2 Goosander
10 Shoveler
(John Isherwood)

30 Oct 19

Priorslee Lake and The Flash

Priorslee Lake:  05:40 –09:10
The Flash:  09:15 – 10:25

4.0°C > 7.0°C:  A few areas of very low cloud pre-dawn; otherwise clear, though with: high cloud encroaching from the south. Slight ground frost. Light E wind. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 07:02 GMT

Priorslee Lake:  05:40 –09:10

(257th visit of the year)

Most surprising bird today was a male Pheasant in the small copse at the S end of the dam. This species is often noisy and active around the area in Spring but otherwise I rarely see one here.

Busy overhead initially, though movement soon faded.

Bird notes from today:
- No Mallard until a trio flew in at 08:50. Probably the roosting birds left before I arrived.
- Now three Pochard.
- Only 10 Great Crested Grebes located. Six, at least, of these immatures.
- The migrant Wood Pigeons rather half-hearted today. No large groups and local birds flying up to join passing groups did not seem to climb to full ‘migrating altitude’.
- Jackdaws behaved unusually. At the normal passage time some 75 birds were logged, all in groups of no more than seven. A party of 118 birds flew over at the late time of 08:05 – some 90 minutes later than usual at this time of year. Even more small groups followed.
- The first Starlings to leave the roost area were nine singles from various locations at the same time. It was nearly 10 minutes before large groups started leaving.

Bird totals:

Birds noted flying over or flying near the lake:
- 4 Black-headed Gulls
- 26 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: mainly adults
- 10 Feral Pigeons (2 groups)
- 101 Wood Pigeons: 66 of these in nine small migrant groups heading ‘SW’
- 221 Jackdaws
- 1 Rook
- 1 Skylark
- 71 Starlings (8 groups)
- 8 Fieldfares (3 groups)
- 119 Redwings (6 groups)
- >10 Pied Wagtails
- 1 Lesser Redpoll

Birds logged leaving roosts around the lake:
- >230 Starlings
- 3 Redwings again
- 12 Reed Buntings

Counts from the lake area:
- 2 + 5 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 5 (3♂) Gadwall
- 3 (2♂) Mallard
- 3 (2♂) Pochard
- 52 (28?♂) Tufted Ducks
- 1 Cormorant yet again
- 2 Grey Herons
- 3 Little Grebes
- 10 Great Crested Grebes only
- 7 Moorhens
- 141 Coots
- 42 Black-headed Gulls
- 51 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Herring Gull: first-winter bird
- 1 Yellow-legged Gull: first-winter
- 1 Kingfisher again

Lamp poles just frosted pre-dawn and revealed:
- 3 November Moth-types (Epirrita sp.)
- 2 Dicranopalpus ramosus harvestmen
- 2 Paroligolophus agrestis harvestmen
- 1 Leiobunum blackwalli harvestman
- 1 unidentified gnat sp.

No later sightings

The next stage in the cygnets flying lesson is landing. Take off is optional: landing is mandatory.

Marks out of 10? Nine I would say.

A drake Gadwall looking coy. Actually it is just taking a pause in its preening. Its partner is still digging it.

Apropos my comment yesterday about the white patches in the leading edge of Grey Heron’s wings: they are not at all obvious here. “My: what big feet you have”

Gull puzzle #1. The wings suggest that this is a first-winter Lesser Black-backed Gull. But why is the upper-tail so heavily marked? No idea. The only gull that seems to match this is the Slaty-backed Gull of East Asia and that has never been recorded in Europe. Probably just an aberrant Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Gull puzzle #2. An immature gull with a white-looking head, a very black-looking bill and some pale in the inner primaries. The upper-tail looks almost grey here and relatively unmarked.

Here we see a hint of brown at the very base of the bill.

A flap after a bit of a bathe.

Confirms the upper tail is not well-marked.

Here from behind, wings spread.

Subsequent discussion on Twitter about photos taken by others of this bird here have re-identified it as a first-winter Caspian Gull. The bill structure, the clean white head with no dark eye smudging, and the pale underwing all point to this species.

I know all about formation flying: but with airliners? In reality these two were vertically separated by 5000’ feet – a mile away. If you are interested the one on the bottom left is a Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner of United Airlines flying from Denver to Paris Charles de Gaulle. And the one on the right is a Boeing 767-300 also of United Airlines and going to Paris but from Chicago. About an hour later would not be a good time to be at French immigration.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:  09:15 – 10:25

(243rd visit of the year)

Highlight today was a splendid drake Goldeneye. My first Goldeneye here since 02 December 2017. Bird species #82 here this year

Other notes from here:
- The Sparrowhawks were being seen off by Carrion Crows, as often happens.
- One of the three Common Buzzards was being ‘helped’ away by the other two.
- A Pied Wagtail was on a house-roof briefly.

Bird noted flying over / near The Flash:
- 2 Cormorants
- 2 Sparrowhawks
- 3 Common Buzzards
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 2 Wood Pigeons
- 7 Jackdaws
- 1 Skylark
- 9 Starlings
- 26 Redwings (1 group)

Counts from the water:
- 3 Mute Swans
- 21 Canada Geese
- 1 Feral / hybrid-type goose
- 30 (17♂) Mallard
- 1 (1♂) Pochard still
- 41 (>14♂) Tufted Duck
- 1 (1♂) Goldeneye
- 5 (2♂) Goosander
- 3 Great Crested Grebes
- 3 Moorhens
- 12 Coots again
- 16 Black-headed Gulls

Other things:
- on the usual lamp pole
        - 1 Dicranopalpus ramosus harvestman
- on lamp poles in squirrel alley
- 1 November Moth-type (Epirrita sp.): same place as yesterday
- elsewhere on lamp poles
- 1 November Moth-types (Epirrita sp.): also same place as yesterday
- on the bank of Ivy: hazy sun and chill wind so low count
        - c.10 wasps
        - very few flies
- and
        large number of toadstools on long-fallen tree trunk. Probably Mycena archangeliana or Angel’s Bonnet

The drake Pochard is still sleeping it off. This species is primarily a nocturnal feeder – diving for weed growing from the bottom of lakes and ponds. So resting during the day is not necessarily a sign of sloth.

As the wind blew he rotated slowly. Note he has just about got an eye open to check what is going on.

As the days go by sexing of Tufted Ducks is getting easier – they are moulting in to adult plumage. This is an obvious drake with the white flanks. He seems to need a touch of ‘Grecian 2000’ on the ‘tuft’.

This is not too hard either – plenty of white in the flanks. Not much ‘tuft’ though – perhaps a first-year bird.

This one too has white emerging to cover up the browner winter flank-markings. Looks as if he is smirking about something.

How about this one? Not at the best angle but I think a duck

The star of the morning. A Goldeneye: and a splendid drake at that. The unique head shape is clear as is the stunning white face patch which this species only shares with Barrow’s Goldeneye of Alaska and in that species the white is crescent-shaped. A real ‘golden eye’.

Here he is again with different lighting.

A common result when photographing Goldeneye!

From the paths at The Flash it is hard to avoid strong contrast on ducks in the middle of the water – many like to be as far away from the edges as possible. Two drake Goosanders with their bottle-green heads attend to their feathers. Note the very bright feet on this species.

Having a good preen. Obvious drakes are generally much less common at this time of year as youngsters have yet to moult in to adult plumage.

This mass of toadstools has suddenly emerged on a long-fallen tree-trunk, rotting away.

Where are the fairies then?

And from underneath we see the gills. I am certain this is a Bonnet fungus from the genus Mycena. My vote would be for M. archangeliana or Angel’s Bonnet in which case we should be looking for angels and not fairies to be dancing around.

(Ed Wilson)

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

2018
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here

2015
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here

2014
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here

2010
Priorslee Lake
10 Swans
c.60 Golden Plover
c.200 Starlings left a roost in the reeds at the W end
763 Wood Pigeons
3 Skylarks
7 Meadow Pipits
165 Fieldfare
9 Redwings
4 Siskins
3 Linnets
1 Redpoll
(Ed Wilson)

2009
Priorslee Lake
8 Wigeon
20 Pochard
(John Isherwood)

The Flash
1 Goosander
1 Teal
(John Isherwood)

2006
Priorslee Lake
100 Jackdaw
130 Rooks
1 Buzzard
Kestrel
c.60 Golden Plover
(Martin Adlam)

2005
Priorslee Lake
450 to 500 Starlings left the roost
11 Pochard
47 Tufted Duck
Pair of Ruddy Duck
200+ Coot
1 Dunlin
104 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
100 Black-headed Gulls
Kingfisher
A Buzzard was seen feeding on earthworms and possibly beetles
2000+ Wood Pigeon
62 Redwing
54 Fieldfare
3 Song Thrushes 
(Martin Adlam)

29 Oct 19

Priorslee Lake and The Flash

Priorslee Lake:  05:40 –09:00
The Flash:  09:05 – 09:55

2.0°C > 4.0°C:  Clear overhead and to the N: area of high cloud to S. Some mist in vicinity not affecting immediate area. Ground frost. Light, mainly E wind. Good visibility.

Sunrise: 07:00 GMT

Priorslee Lake:  05:40 –09:00

(256th visit of the year)

Best bird today was a Woodcock seen flying in to its roost at 06:10. My first of the Autumn and a different location to where I usually see this species, though I have seen a bird in this location once before, but many years ago.

Busy overhead although, Wood Pigeons apart, no definitive migration.

Bird notes from today:
- Four of the five cygnets achieved lift-off.
- A duck Pochard new in.
- Very few Black-headed Gulls again.
- The first migrant Wood Pigeons were in a party of 12 at 07:02. Apart from a group of 171 (sad isn’t it?).at 08:35 most of the groups were quite small.
- I managed to locate many, but by no means all, of the Pied Wagtails leaving their roost site and passing high eastwards overhead in the clear sky.
- Reed Buntings started calling at 06:15. I saw none leave the roost until 06:45.

Bird totals:

Birds noted flying over or flying near the lake:
- 3 Greylag Geese: (single & pair inbound)
- 9 Canada Geese: (1 group outbound)
- 1 Sparrowhawk
- 1 Common Buzzard
- 3 Black-headed Gulls
- 14 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: mainly adults
- 1 Herring Gull: (near) adult
- 1 Stock Dove
- 480 Wood Pigeons: 457 of these in 11 migrant groups heading ‘SW’
- 183 Jackdaws
- 3 Skylarks
- 19 Starlings (4 groups)
- 9 Fieldfares (3 groups)
- 29 Redwings (5 groups)
- >30 Pied Wagtails (see notes)

Birds logged leaving roosts around the lake:
- >125 Starlings
- 3 Redwings
- 16 Reed Buntings

Counts from the lake area:
- 2 + 5 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 4 (2♂) Gadwall
- 8 (5♂) Mallard
- 1 (0♂) Pochard
- 43 (21?♂) Tufted Ducks
- 1 Cormorant again
- 3 Grey Herons again
- 4 Little Grebes
- 14 Great Crested Grebes again
- 6 Moorhens again
- 134 Coots
- 1 Woodcock
- 27 Black-headed Gulls only
- 14 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: just two of these first-winter birds
- 1 Herring Gull: first-winter bird
- 1 Kingfisher

Still reasonably busy on frosted lamp poles pre-dawn:
- 4 November Moth-types (Epirrita sp.) again
- 1 Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata)
- 1 Dicranopalpus ramosus harvestman
- 5 Paroligolophus agrestis harvestmen again
- 3 spiders, likely all Nursery Web Spiders (Pisaura mirabilis): frost hiding markings
A single moth was all that was still present at 08:45.

Later sightings elsewhere
- several probable Field Blewit (Lepista saeva) fungus
- 1 Grey Squirrel

Mainly clear start with the high cloud to the S producing a little sunrise colour.

Three cygnets, well in the air and undercarriage almost retracted, take a test-flight with one of the parents. A Black-headed Gull gets out of the way!

I was just a second or two late on to this Cormorant. It had just caught and was swallowing a large fish. All that remains is a rather thicker neck than usual as the prey slides down.

Did I know that Grey Herons had two white patches on the leading edge of each wing and a white patch to the wing root? I do now.

They are rather formidable. Why is it necessary to be so large? I guess smaller birds are more nimble and take smaller fish and that herons have evolved to be large enough to deal with the bigger fish that others cannot cope with.

This gull popped up on this buoy and I never saw it arrive or depart. It seems it is an advanced first-winter Herring Gull with the mantle feathers moulted, unlike most of the immature gulls seen to date. The new feathers have neat black markings. Somewhat unusual is the pale head with the dark eye, reminiscent of Common Gull. Immature large gulls have dark eyes, not usually so obvious when this is part of a dark smudgy area on the face. The bill is too heavy for a Common Gull. The mantle tone is too pale for Yellow-legged Gull which is always a possibility on a pale-head large gull.

Neck ache time again. Not only can this immature Goldfinch hang head-first but it can twist its neck and still not fall off as it digs in to an alder cone.

I think I could cope with this angle OK.

“Three’s a crowd”. These November-type Moths had found one of the lamps under shelter of trees which is not frosted and had decided it was a better resting place.

This fungus appears every year in this location. I think Field Blewit (Lepista saeva)

From underneath.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:  09:05 – 09:55

(242nd visit of the year)

Notes from here:
- Rather quiet. Where have many of the Mallard gone? Were they hiding inside the island?

Bird noted flying over / near The Flash:
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 7 Wood Pigeons

Counts from the water:
- 3 Mute Swans as ever
- 2 Greylag Geese
- 28 Canada Geese: 8 of these arrived
- 14 (8♂) Mallard only
- 1 (1♂) Pochard again
- 25 (10?♂) Tufted Duck
- 1 Grey Heron
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 5 Moorhens
- 12 Coots
- 10 Black-headed Gulls

Other things:
- on the usual lamp pole
- 1 November Moth-type (Epirrita sp.)
- 1 Dicranopalpus ramosus harvestman
- on lamp poles in squirrel alley
- 1 November Moth-type (Epirrita sp.)
- 1 Paroligolophus agrestis harvestman
- elsewhere on lamp poles
- 1 November Moth-types (Epirrita sp.)
- on the bank of Ivy: although sunny a chill wind and not sheltered today
- >30 wasps
- a few flies

(Ed Wilson)

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

2018
Priorslee 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

2013
Priorslee Lake
7 Gadwall
1 Teal
1 Raven
(John Isherwood)

The Flash
Location
1 Pochard
1 Teal
(John Isherwood)

2012
Priorslee Lake
1 Yellow legged Gull
2 Gadwall
1 Shoveler
1 Wigeon
Chiffchaff
10+ Fieldfare
Siskin
Willow Tit
(John Isherwood)

The Flash
Location
3 Pochard
Sparrowhawk
(John Isherwood)

2010
Priorslee Lake
34 Pochard a high count 
500+  Lesser Black-backed Gulls
432 Jackdaws
228 Rooks
171 Fieldfare
5 Redwings
2 Siskins
4 Linnets
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
115 Canada Geese
9 Pochard
52 Tufted Ducks
1 Kestrel
c.200 Golden Plover
23 Pied Wagtails
17 Robins
18 Blackbirds
12 Song Thrushes
70 Redwing
1 Mistle Thrush
9 Fieldfare
1 Chiffchaff
1 Blackcap
1 Willow Tit
195 Jackdaws
206 Rooks
31 Greenfinches
4 Redpoll
10 Reed Buntings
(Martin Adlam)

2005
Priorslee Lake
Buzzard feeding on earthworms, mobbed by Black-headed Gulls
1 Raven
7 Pied Wagtails
3 Grey Wagtail
11 Meadow Pipits
Kingfisher
1700+ Wood Pigeon
192 Redwing
111 Fieldfare
(Martin Adlam)