Priorslee Lake: 05:50 –08:20
The Flash: 08:25 – 09:15
9.0°C > 10.0°C: Very low cloud / mist. Early light drizzle, later ‘in the air’. Light SE wind. Poor visibility.
Sunrise: 07:06 GMT
Priorslee Lake: 05:50 –08:20
(259th visit of the year)
No bird notes from today: nothing special in poor visibility
Bird totals:
Birds noted flying over or flying near the lake:
**only things passing directly overhead could be seen
- 2 Wood Pigeons only
- 68 Jackdaws
- 29 Redwings (2 groups)
- >3 Pied Wagtails
- 2 Meadow Pipits
Birds logged leaving roosts around the lake:
**poor visibility hampered these counts
- 33 Starlings (see notes)
- 6 Redwings
- 5 Reed Buntings
Counts from the lake area:
**best effort in poor viz: scope for under- / double- counting
- 2 + 5 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 6 (3♂) Gadwall
- 3 (2♂) Mallard
- 4 (3♂) Pochard
- 53 (?♂) Tufted Ducks
- 3 Grey Herons
- [no Little Grebes]
- 9 Great Crested Grebes
- 6 Moorhens again
- 130 Coots
- >110 Black-headed Gulls
- 26 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 2 Herring Gulls: both first-winter birds
Lamp poles pre-dawn revealed:
- 4 November Moth-types (Epirrita sp.)
- 1 rather small stretch spider Tetragnatha sp.
- 1 Leiobunum rotundum harvestman
- 3 Paroligolophus agrestis harvestmen
No later sightings:
(Ed Wilson)
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The Flash: 08:25 – 09:15
(245th visit of the year)
Visibility even worse here – unable to see across the water at times.
Notes from here:
- The drake Pochard not located. Perhaps the extra drake at the lake?
Birds noted flying over / near The Flash:
- 9 Starlings
Counts from the water:
all counts potentially affected by poor visibility
- 3 Mute Swans
- 1 Canada Goose only
- 36 (20♂) Mallard
- 43 (>12♂) Tufted Duck
- 4 (3♂) Goosander
- 3 Great Crested Grebes still
- 3 Moorhens
- 9 Coots only
- 19 Black-headed Gulls
Other things:
- on the usual lamp pole
- 1 Leiobunum rotundum harvestman
- nothing on lamp poles in squirrel alley
- elsewhere on lamp poles
- 1 November Moth-type (Epirrita sp.)
- 1 rather small stretch spider Tetragnatha sp.
- 1 Leiobunum rotundum harvestman
- nothing on the bank of Ivy
(Ed Wilson)
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On this day..........
2018Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2015
Local Area
Today's Sightings Here
2014
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2010
Priorslee Lake
Brambling
3 Fieldfares
12 Redwings
5 Siskins
2 Linnets
(Ed Wilson)
2005
Priorslee Lake
Cormorant
14 Pochard
40 Tufted Duck
Female Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Goldcrest
Willow Tits with the Long-tailed Tits
Kingfisher
Jays
Sky Lark
Siskin
Redpoll
(Ed Wilson)