7.0°C: Cloudy after a morning of heavy rain. Light S wind. Moderate visibility.
[Sunrise: 08:16 GMT]
No photos today
A quick check to find anything interesting. Failed in that quest. Totals from the waters as below. No overflights logged
Priorslee Lake: 14:22 – 14:47
(279th visit of the year)
Bird notes:
- Three of the Mute Swan cygnets well away from the parents and the other two siblings
Counts from the lake area only:
- 2 + 5 Mute Swans
- 8 (5♂) Gadwall
- 4 (2♂) Mallard
- 2 (2♂) Pochard still
- 33 (21♂) Tufted Duck
- 1 Cormorant
- no Grey Herons
- 4 Great Crested Grebes: one of these a first-winter
- 9 Moorhens
- 166 Coots
- 48 Black-headed Gulls
- 7 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 2 Herring Gulls: both immatures
(Ed Wilson)
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(261st visit of the year)
Bird notes:
- All seven cygnet located.
- Two Great Crested Grebes found
- Black-headed Gulls arriving all the while
Counts from the water:
- 3 + 7 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 2 Greylag Geese
- 10 Canada Geese
- 30 (16♂) Mallard
- 4 (3♂) Pochard
- 58 (32♂) Tufted Duck
- 3 (0♂) Goosanders again
- no Grey Herons
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 8 Moorhens
- 32 Coots
- 123 Black-headed Gulls
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: yep: still floating
- 1 Herring Gull: immature
On the lamp pole; on / around the Ivy; or elsewhere:
Nothing on any of them
(Ed Wilson)
(Ed Wilson)
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2019
Priorslee Lake
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2018
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2017
Priorslee Lake
Today's Sightings Here
2016
Priorslee Lake
Today's sightings Here
2014
Priorslee Lake
Today's sightings Here
2013
Priorslee Lake
5 Gadwall
3 Pochard
49 Tufted Ducks
238 Coots
6 Fieldfare
>256 Redwings
3 Siskins
1 Redpoll
(Ed Wilson)
The Flash
2 Teal
2 Pochard
167 Tufted Ducks
1 Greater Scaup
2 Goosanders
1 Redpoll
(Ed Wilson)
2012
Priorslee Lake
2 Little Grebe
35 Tufted Ducks
4 Gadwall
7 Pochard
149 Coot
1 Water Rail
25 Redwings
(Ed Wilson)
2011
Priorslee Lake
6 Great Black-backed Gulls
(John Isherwood)
2009
Priorslee Lake
Black-necked Grebe
5 Great Crested Grebes
23 Swans
34 Pochard
84 Tufted Ducks
1 Water Rail
Snipe
273 Coots
25 Goldfinches
7 Linnets
50 Siskins
(Ed Wilson)
2006
Priorslee Lake
3 Great Crested Grebes
4 Cormorants
9 Pochard
46 Tufted Ducks
1 Water Rail
Woodcock
70 Coots
c.220 Black-headed Gulls
104 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
2 Herring Gulls
1 Great Black-backed Gull
5 Buzzards
20 Pied Wagtails
1 Willow Tits
561 Jackdaws
149 Rooks
c.190 Fieldfare
c.120 Redwings
5 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson / Martin Adlam)