5.0°C: Squally showers. Moderate WNW wind gusting strong in showers. Very good visibility.
[Sunrise: 07:50 GMT]
Photos
[Sunrise: 07:50 GMT]
Photos
None today
Very wet weather suggested I should delay my start. Other commitments meant I only had time to visit The Flash.
The Flash: 09:40 – 10:30
(247th visit of the year)
A quick dash around between the showers, concentrating on the diving ducks.
Bird notes:
- Very low numbers of Canada Geese recently: why?
- Now two drake Pochard.
Birds noted flying over here:
- 1 Jackdaw
- 9 Redwings
On /around the water:
- 5 Canada Geese only
- 3 + 2 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 29 (16♂) Mallard
- 2 (2♂) Pochard
- 54 (25♂) Tufted Duck
- 14 (5♂) Goosander
- 7 Moorhens
- [Coots not counted]
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 22 Black-headed Gulls
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull: adult again
- 2 Grey Herons
On the lamp poles:
Nothing on any of them
On the Ivy:
Not visited
Of note.
Nothing else
Of note.
Nothing else
(Ed Wilson)
An example of a drake Pochard I photographed (Martin Adlam)
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On this day can be found via the yearly links in the right-hand column.
Sightings from previous years without links are below
2012
Priorslee Lake
22 Tufted Ducks
143 Coots
Nuthatch
34 Redwings
1 Fieldfare
228 Jackdaws
98 Rooks
(Ed Wilson)
2006
Priorslee Lake
1 Little Grebe
11 Greylag Geese
27 Pochard
70 Tufted Ducks
1 drake Ruddy Duck
70 Coots
>400 Black-headed Gulls
315 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
5 Herring Gulls
221 Wood Pigeons
22 Blackbirds
45 Fieldfares
38 Redwings
264 Jackdaws
71 Rooks
5 Siskins
(Ed Wilson)
2005
Priorslee Lake
1 Pochard
40 Tufted Duck
1 Goldeneye
2 Ruddy Duck
C.700 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
16 Herring Gulls
2 Yellow-legged Gull
2 Great Black-backed Gulls
Caspian Gull
Sparrowhawk
c.628 Jackdaws
c.358 Rooks
(Martin Adlam)