Priorslee Lake only
1.0°C: Low overcast with light sleet rapidly changing to moderate snow. Covering of snow in all areas. Almost calm. Poor visibility especially once the snow started.
[Sunrise: 08:11 GMT]
No photos today.
Priorslee Lake: 12:30 – 12:50
(250th visit of the year)
Viewing only from the Castle Farm Way lay-by and dam-top. Still c.50% mainly thin ice.
I just about finished my initial counts when the snow began to fall heavily and visibility dropped preventing any viable recount.
Bird notes:
- A pair of Common Teal were new arrivals
- Significant decrease in Tufted Duck numbers. Not sure whether The Flash was less iced-over for them to have gone there. I did take a quick look but with the snow settling on the roads I decided to high-tail it back home.
Counts from the lake area:
- 5 Canada Geese
- 2 + 4 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 6 (4♂) Gadwall again
- 2 (2♂) Mallard
- 2 (1♂) (Common) Teal
- 4 (3♂) Pochard
- 55 (31♂) Tufted Duck
- 11 Moorhens
- 166 Coots
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 18 Black-headed Gulls
- 5 Herring Gulls
- 47 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 6 Cormorants
- 1 Grey Heron
Noted
Nothing else
(Ed Wilson)
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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
2013
Priorslee Lake
Scaup imm/fem
4 Yellow-legged Gull
(Gary Crowder)
2012
Priorslee Lake
3 Yellow-legged Gull
8 Great Black-backed Gulls
1 duck Gadwall
3 Goosander
4 Teal
1 Wigeon
1 Redshank
8 Pochard.
55 Tufted Ducks
1 Water Rail
172 Coots.
4 Great Black-backed Gulls .
36 Redwings
42 Fieldfares
453 Jackdaws
64 Rooks
(John Isherwood/Roger Clay/Ed Wilson)
Trench Lock Pool
35 Mute Swans
1 drake Wigeon
1 duck Goldeneye
2 drake Shoveler
40 Tufted Duck
1 Common Gull
6 Herring Gull
163 Lesser Black-backed Gull
128 Black-headed Gull
2 Great Black-backed Gulls
165 Coot
Lesser Black-backed Gull with a Dark Blue ring with Orange [red] numbers 567. This bird bred in Germany.
(Martin Grant/Ed Wilson)
2011
Priorslee Lake
Adult Caspian Gull
(Tom Lowe)
2009
Priorslee Lake
Black necked Grebe
1 Great Black-backed Gull
(John Isherwood)
2006
Priorslee Lake
5 Cormorants
18 Pochard
56 Tufted Ducks
27 Robins
23 Blackbirds
3 Fieldfares
2 Redwings
1 Willow Tit
2 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)
2005
Priorslee Lake
Water Rail
750 Black-headed Gulls
1000 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
1 Little Grebes
5 Great Crested Grebes
15 Pochard
27 Tufted Duck
2 Redpolls
25 Siskins
15 Pied Wagtails
2 Redwings
32 Fieldfares
5 Reed Buntings
13 Robins
18 Blackbirds
11 Greenfinches
(Ed Wilson)