28 Feb 23

Priorslee Lake and The Flash

5.0°C > 7.0°C: Still mostly cloudy with a few light showers. Rather more brighter spells. Moderate N wind. Good visibility.

[Sunrise: 07:00 GMT]

* = a species photographed today.

Another dull and damp start to the day suggested a later visit.

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 11:00 – 11:30

(49th visit of the year)

Only viewing from the dam-top area again.

Severn-Trent were again carrying out their planned thinning of the some of the wooded areas. Last day.

Very quiet (apart from the chainsaw)

Bird notes:
- Just one displaying pair of Great Crested Grebes. A lone adult at the other end of the water. I did not see the first year bird noted on the previous two days.

Birds noted flying over here during my brief visit:
- 1 Wood Pigeon

Counts from the lake area:
- 10 Canada Geese
- 2 + 3 Mute Swans
- 4 (2♂) Gadwall
- no Mallard seen
- Pochard gone to The Flash
- 6 (5♂) Tufted Duck
- 5 Moorhens only
- 67 Coots
- *3 Great Crested Grebes only
- 9 Black-headed Gulls
- 1 Cormorant

 Most of the Great Crested Grebes had either departed or were hiding. This pair was displaying.

"My feathers are taller than yours".

Ships that pass in the night?

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 09:25 – 10:55

(45th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- *The adult Mute Swans were seen mating. Later they were both chasing the remaining cygnet.
- The quartet of Pochard were no doubt the birds seen at the Balancing Lake on the previous two days.
- The two Goosanders were resting on the island. I could not tell whether they were females or immature males with the views available.
- Both Great Crested Grebes had extensive head plumes. I am sure yesterday's first year bird (that was not located today) could not have sprouted the plumes overnight. Also these two were in threat posture to each other.
- *Long-tailed Tits were less busy nest-building but still obvious.

Birds noted flying over here:

None

Noted on / around the water
- *24 Canada Geese
- *2 + 1 Mute Swans
- 28 (19♂) Mallard only
- 1 all-white duck (Peking(?) Duck)
- 4 (3♂) Pochard
- 56 (36♂) Tufted Duck
- 2 (?♂) Goosander
- 14 Moorhens
- 33 Coots
- 2 Great Crested Grebes again
- 46 Black-headed Gulls
- 2 Herring Gulls: one second and one third year
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adult
- 3 Cormorants: all departed
- 1 Grey Heron

On / around the street lamp poles or of note elsewhere
Nothing noted

A double-headed Canada Goose?

A Canada Goose arriving. I have tweaked the exposure but I did not need to crop this view.

All the action was a bit too far away for best photos. The Mute Swans were mating this morning, Here both have their tails in the air, the pen in the foreground has her tail more erect as an invitation to the cob.

He looks confused about which end to approach. Well he is a recent arrival and it is not entirely clear whether he was the father of the small second 2022 brood. It could be his first experience.

As with ducks it looks as if the female should drown and he pushes her neck underwater.

 "Let me up for air".

"Weren't we clever?"

The first year Black-headed Gull (bottom right) has found some food and the two adults want it. Note the tail of the first year has moulted to acquire adult feathers in the centre of its tail.

Did someone ask about Long-tailed Tits?

A different bird.

This Song Thrush did not seem too worried about the passing dogs and continued to extract food from the grass.

Another friendly Robin. When seen this closely they are well worth looking at.

So we'd better have another view.

(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

2014

Little Wenlock, Candles Landfill Site

2 Iceland Gulls

(Observer Unknown)

2013

Priorslee Lake

31 Wigeon 

7 Gadwall 

5 Pochard 

18 Tufted Ducks 

1 Greater Scaup

2 Lapwings

c.1600 Black-headed Gulls

c.800 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

c.100 Herring Gulls

1 Iceland

1 Glaucous Gull

1 Caspian Gull

1 Yellow-legged Gull

38 Redwings

2 Fieldfare

15 Siskins

(Ed Wilson, Martin Grant, Tom Lowe)

The Flash

1 Little Grebe

10 Pochard 

123 Tufted Duck 

(Ed Wilson)

Trench Lock Pool

21 Tufted Duck 

1 Goosander 

(Ed Wilson)

Horsehay Pool

1 Yellow-legged Gull

(Tom Lowe)

Little Wenlock, Candles Landfill Site

2 Yellow-legged Gulls.

(Tom Lowe)

2012

Priorslee Lake

4 Great Crested Grebes

3 Pochard

32 Tufted Duck

4 Curlew

2 Siskins

(Ed Wilson)

Trench Lock

26 Tufted Duck 

9 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

13 Herring Gulls

1 Yellow-legged Gull

(Ed Wilson)

2010

Priorslee Lake

1 Little Grebe as noted 

6 Great Crested Grebes

4 Gadwall

39 Pochard

57 Tufted Ducks

99 Coots 

29 Blackbirds

4 Redwing

8 Song Thrushes

22 Siskins

3 Reed Buntings

(Ed Wilson)

2009

Priorslee Lake

Common Gull

6 Ravens

(Ed Wilson)

Woodhouse Lane

Stonechat

(John Isherwood)

2007

Priorslee Lake

4 Cormorant

2 Pochard

15 Tufted Duck

1 Ruddy Duck

1 Peregrine Falcon

26 Robin

11 Redwing

63 Magpie

196 Jackdaw

12 Greenfinch

10 Reed Bunting

(Ed Wilson)

2006

Priorslee Lake

2 Little Grebes

6 Great Crested Grebes

2 Cormorants

7 Pochard

35 Tufted Ducks

1 Water Rail

800 Wood Pigeon

142 Starlings

14 Pied Wagtails

18 Robins

20 Blackbirds

11 Fieldfare

10 Song Thrushes

2 Willow Tits

15 Greenfinches

11 Siskins

7 Reed Buntings 

(Ed Wilson)

27 Feb 23

Priorslee Lake and The Flash

4.0°C > 5.0°C: Mostly cloudy with a few very light showers. Just a couple of brighter spells. Light / moderate NNE wind. Very good visibility.

[Sunrise: 07:02 GMT]

* = a species photographed today.

A very dull and slightly damp start to the day suggested a later visit might be better. Perhaps it was.

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 10:50 – 11:35

(48th visit of the year)

Only viewing from the dam-top area.

Severn-Trent were carrying out their planned thinning of the some of the wooded areas. Tomorrow is the last date such work is permitted ahead of the breeding season.

Bird notes:
- The Mute Swan cygnets were presumably three of 'ours' returned. The adults seemed sanguine about their presence and I doubt they would have been so with strangers. So where is the fourth cygnet?
- Three pairs of Great Crested Grebes were noted. *A lone adult was near the dam. The first year bird was mostly asleep in the middle of the water.

Birds noted flying over here during my brief visit:
- 1 Stock Dove
- 3 Wood Pigeons
- 1 Herring Gull
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- *1 Sparrowhawk

Counts from the lake area:
- 2 Canada Geese
- 2 + 3 Mute Swans: some cygnets back
- 4 (2♂) Gadwall still
- 9 (6♂) Mallard
- 4 (3♂) Pochard again
- 14 (9♂) Tufted Duck
- 13 Moorhens
- 66 Coots
- *8 Great Crested Grebes
- 23 Black-headed Gulls
- 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Cormorant: departed

The lone adult Great Crested Grebe just off the dam. Although pairs are displaying I am not entirely convinced that these are always the same birds involved. This species is always hard to keep track of as they often move some distance underwater.

Not a brilliant photo of the Sparrowhawk passing over at some distance against a leaden sky. Hard to tell what colour the barring on the belly might be: looks to be a chunky bird and therefore a grey-striped female.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 09:25 – 10:45

(44th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- The Greylag Goose arrived apparently paired with a Canada Goose. There has been such a pairing for a number of years leading to an array of hybrids.
- A fly-over Collared Dove did not seem to be one of the local birds. The locals were present and correct where they normally are.
- A Jay was heard giving its Buzzard-like mewing call from trees at the top end. Only my second record of this species here this year.
- *Long-tailed Tits were still busy nest-building.

Birds noted flying over here:
- 1 Collared Dove
- 1 Sparrowhawk
- 5 Jackdaws

Noted on / around the water
- 20 Canada Geese
- 1 Greylag Goose
- *2 + 1 Mute Swans
- 40 (27♂) Mallard
- 1 all-white duck (Peking(?) Duck)
- *65 (41♂) Tufted Duck
- no Goosander
- 13 Moorhens
- 34 Coots
- *2 Great Crested Grebes again
- 61 Black-headed Gulls
- 1 Herring Gulls: a third year
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adult and first year again
- 3 Cormorants again

On / around the street lamp poles or of note elsewhere
Nothing noted

Hard to see what is going on here. What seems to be the cob Mute Swan pulling vegetation to construct the nesting platform alongside Derwent Drive. The pen is the bird with the green Darvic ring and is taking no part in proceedings.

A duck Tufted Duck in a bit of a flap.

Here showing the underwing and white belly.

This looks to be the first year Great Crested Grebe now beginning to grow some neck plumes.

And here with the full adult in the foreground. Most of the time these birds keep well apart.

You cannot have too many Long-tailed Tit photos

These were taken as birds brought nesting material to two different sites.

Dull lighting conditions did not make for pin-sharp photos.

A camera-shy bird.

Once the nests have been completed these birds will be much harder to photograph.

(Ed Wilson)

Note:

Ed Wilson's visit to the Wirral on 22 Feb 23 can be found Here.

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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

2014

Little Wenlock, Candles Landfill Site

2 Iceland Gulls

1 Caspian Gull

(Observer Unknown)

2013

Priorslee Lake

6 Great Crested Grebes

1 Greater Scaup

26 Wigeon

4 Gadwall 

33 Tufted Ducks 

84 Coots 

c.800 Black-headed Gulls

c.450 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

c.60 Herring Gulls

1 Great Black-backed Gull 

(Ed Wilson)

Horsehay Pool

1 Glaucous Gull

(J W Reeves )

2012

Priorslee Lake

4 Great Crested Grebes

1 Shelduck

4 Pochard

30 Tufted Duck

35 Robins

24 Wrens

15 Dunnocks 

(Ed Wilson)

Priorslee Flash

3 Great Crested Grebes

9 Pochard

53 Tufted Duck 

(Ed Wilson)

2010

Priorslee Lake

1 Little Grebe 

6 Great Crested Grebes

1 Heron 

4 Gadwall

35 Pochard

51 Tufted Ducks

1 Water Rail

103 Coots 

c.700 Black-headed Gulls

c.225 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

27 Herring Gulls

Common Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

2 Willow Tit

124 Jackdaws

86 Rooks

1 Linnet

14 Siskins

2 Reed Bunting

(Ed Wilson)

2009

Priorslee Lake

1 Glaucous Gull

1 Iceland Gull

(Ed Wilson)

2007

Priorslee Lake

4 Pochard 

19 Tufted Duck

1 Ruddy Duck

600 Black-headed Gulls

100 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

1 Herring Gull

1 Great Black-backed Gull

36 Wren

28 Robin

7 Redwing

20 Magpie

134 Jackdaw 

8 Greenfinch

4 Reed Bunting

(Ed Wilson, Martin Adlam)

2006

Priorslee Lake

6 Great Crested Grebes

1 Heron

2 Cormorant

2 Gadwall

7 Pochard

42 Tufted Ducks

110 Coots

150 Starlings

23 Pied Wagtails

21 Wrens

15 Robins

17 Blackbirds

2 Redwings

1 Willow Tit

16 Greenfinches

38 Siskins

1 Redpoll

4 Reed Buntings

(Ed Wilson)

26 Feb 23

Priorslee Lake and The Flash

1.0°C > 5.0°C: As yesterday with areas of medium-level cloud and some clear spells. Lighter N wind. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 07:04 GMT

* = a species photographed today.

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 06:00 – 08:45

(47th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- A male Pheasant was calling from the West end scrub at 06:15 and several times thereafter.
- The Mute Swan cygnets seem to have really gone. Fishermen present throughout after their departure at 07:45 yesterday reported no sightings.
- One of the Great Crested Grebes seen was an immature lacking head plumes. It is unlikely to be the individual seen recently at The Flash as that one was there today. I have not seen an immature here for several weeks, all the displaying birds having plumes.
- A Great Spotted Woodpecker was heard and also seen drumming.
- Not only did I heard a Cetti's Warbler singing but I saw it – very briefly in flight between two stands of reeds

Birds noted flying over here:
- 2 Canada Geese: South together
- *3 (?♂) Goosander
- 1 Feral Pigeon
- 1 Stock Dove
- 13 Wood Pigeons
- 8 Black-headed Gulls
- 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 3 Cormorants: a single and a duo
- 2 Jackdaws
- 3 Rooks

Counts from the lake area:
- 11 Canada Geese: of these four arrived; five and then two departed
- 1 Greylag Goose: arrived and departed
- 2 Mute Swans: cygnets gone
- 4 (2♂) Gadwall again
- 4 (2♂) Mallard
- 4 (3♂) Pochard
- 12 (9♂) Tufted Duck
- 11 Moorhens
- 68 Coots
- 4 Great Crested Grebes
- 28 Black-headed Gulls
- 3 Herring Gulls
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- *1 Grey Heron: arrived
- 1 Kingfisher again

Noted on / around the frosted street lamp poles pre-dawn:
- *1 male Dotted Border moth (Agriopis marginaria): different lamp pole to yesterday
- 1 spider sp.

Of note later:
- *my first Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale agg.) flower of the year.

Too much early cloud for a decent sunrise.

A very small amount of colour later.

A 'grab shot' as the trio of Goosanders flew across. About all I can say is that none of them is an adult drake.

This Grey Heron seems relatively unfazed by me. It is keeping a careful watch.

A Dunnock singing its cheery song.

A male Chaffinch trying to hide at the top of one of the tallest trees around the lake.

At least he had the decency to turn around.

Another chance to see.... a different Dotted Border moth (Agriopis marginaria) with the clearest 'dotted border' yet. Once again the photo seems to include a springtail (by the outer cross-line on the left forewing)

The first Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale agg.) flower I have noted here this year. The 'agg.' in the scientific name is short for 'aggregate'. The taxonomy of Dandelions is extremely complex with over 250 distinct (to some people) forms. What is known is that these forms do not hybridise, each plant producing seeds that develop in to clones of the parent. A question arises in my mind: "how did so many forms develop?"

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 08:50 – 09:55

(43rd visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- A Sparrowhawk shot in to a tree right next to me and immediately shot out again.

Birds noted flying over here:
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 2 Jackdaws

Noted on / around the water
- 26 Canada Geese
- 1 Greylag Goose
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans
- *31 (21♂) Mallard
- 1 all-white duck (Peking(?) Duck)
- 64 (40♂) Tufted Duck
- 1 (0♂) Goosander
- 16 Moorhens
- 37 Coots
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 58 Black-headed Gulls
- 2 Herring Gulls: a third and a first year
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adult and first year
- 3 Cormorants

On / around the street lamp poles
Nothing noted

Noted elsewhere:
- 1 Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus)

The bank of Ivy was in full sun but apparently devoid of insects. I presume the ambient temperature was still too low.

A pair of Mallard flew in very close. In this frame I just about captured the duck.

And here the drake with feet out for splash-down.

This Long-tailed Tit is preparing to...

 ...take off.

Very close-by was this Long-tailed Tit bringing nesting material to a different nest.

(Ed Wilson)

Note:

Ed Wilson's visit to the Wirral on 22 Feb 23 can be found Here.

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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

2014

Priorslee Lake

4 Great Crested Grebes 

3 Cormorants 

1 Grey Heron 

8 Pochard 

4 Tufted Duck 

164 Black-headed Gulls

78 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

9 Herring Gulls

1 Yellow-legged Gull

16 Fieldfare

18 Redwings

c.800 Jackdaws

 >250 Rooks

20 Siskins

(Ed Wilson, Gary Crowder)

The Flash

1 Little Grebe 

185 Tufted Ducks

(Ed Wilson)

Little Wenlock, Candles Landfill Site

2 Iceland Gulls

3 Caspian Gull

(Observer Unknown)

2013

Priorslee Lake

6 Great Crested Grebes 

33 Wigeon 

1 Common Teal 

4 Gadwall 

33 Tufted Ducks 

89 Coots 

c.650 Black-headed Gulls

c.410 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

41 Herring Gulls

1 Great Black-backed Gull

(Ed Wilson / John Isherwood)

The Flash

1 Little Grebe

9 Pochard 

89 Tufted Duck 

1 Greater Scaup

(Ed Wilson, John Isherwood)

2010

Priorslee Lake

6 Great Crested Grebes 

18 Swans 

4 Gadwall

35 Pochard

44 Tufted Duck

96 Coots 

c.650 Black-headed Gulls 

c.220 Lesser Black-backed Gulls 

12 Herring Gulls 

1 other 'strange gull'!

(Ed Wilson)

2009

Priorslee Lake

Iceland Gull

2 Curlew

(Ed Wilson)

2007

Priorslee Lake

1 Water Rail

2 Sky Larks

(Ed Wilson)

2006

Priorslee Lake

1 Little Grebe

6 Great Crested Grebes

1 Heron

1 Cormorant

2 Gadwall

6 Pochard

45 Tufted Ducks

96 Coots

c.1000 Black-headed Gulls

274 Wood Pigeon

135 Jackdaws

111 Rooks

78 Starlings

45 Pied Wagtails

20 Robins

17 Blackbirds

10 Song Thrushes

4 Redwings

2 Willow Tits

20 Greenfinches

6 Siskins

5 Reed Buntings

(Ed Wilson)

25 Feb 23

Priorslee Lake and The Flash

1.0°C > 3.0°C: Areas of medium-level cloud with a few clear spells. Moderate N wind. Very good visibility.

Sunrise: 07:06 GMT

* = a species photographed today.

Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:55 – 08:40

(46th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- *After my comment yesterday that the cob Mute Swan was not having much success in persuading the cygnets to leave all four cygnets took to the air c.07:35 and flew off East and had not returned by the time I departed.
- I heard a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming: the first I have heard here this year.
- I heard a Cetti's Warbler singing in the north-west area early and then later in the north-east area. I assume this is the same bird?
- The two Mistle Thrushes flew high South overhead and seemed not to be the birds that usually nest in the Ricoh copse.
- A Grey Wagtail was briefly on the dam. My first record here since 06 January.

Birds noted flying over here:
- 7 Canada Geese: two East together; five South together
- 3 Greylag Geese: outbound together
- 1 Stock Dove
- 16 Wood Pigeons
- no gulls
- 1 Jackdaw
- 2 Mistle Thrushes: together

Counts from the lake area:
- 9 Canada Geese: of these five departed; and two arrived and then departed
- *2 + 4 Mute Swans: but see notes
- 4 (2♂) Gadwall
- 8 (5♂) Mallard
- 4 (2♂) Tufted Duck
- 14 Moorhens
- 77 Coots
- 5 Great Crested Grebes
- 37 Black-headed Gulls
- *9 Herring Gulls
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls again
- 1 Grey Heron: arrived
- 1 Kingfisher

Noted on / around the frosted street lamp poles pre-dawn:
- *1 male Dotted Border moth (Agriopis marginaria)

Of note later:
- *first flowers of Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

Very little clear sky early.

The best of an uninspiring sunrise.

A swan-song? The four cygnets take to the air...

...and off they go to the East. They did not return while I was present.

One of the first of first year Herring Gulls has found something to play with.

This morning's male Dotted Border moth (Agriopis marginaria). [Reminder: females of this species have vestigial wings and cannot fly]. Several of the marks around the moth on the lamp pole look as if they might be tiny springtails.

Just about on cue I noted the first flowers of Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). Last year I first recorded them on 22 February. The flowers were some way up a bush where the sun reaches over the top of other vegetation.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash: 08:45 – 09:45

(42nd visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- A very 'routine' day with little of note. A brief sunny spell provided a few good images of some of the small passerines.

Birds noted flying over here:
- *1 Sparrowhawk

Noted on / around the water
- 32 Canada Geese
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans
- 40 (24♂) Mallard
- 1 all-white duck (Peking(?) Duck)
- 70 (44♂) Tufted Duck
- *3 (1♂) Goosander
- 14 Moorhens only
- 35 Coots
- 1 Great Crested Grebe again
- 43 Black-headed Gulls
- 3 Herring Gulls: two third and one first year
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adult and first year
- no Cormorants

On / around the street lamp poles or of note elsewhere:
Nothing noted

Two of the three Goosanders present this morning as they went for a fly-about. The 'cleaner-looking' bird closest is a first year drake; the other with a white chin is a duck, probably also a first year.

The same two with the drake in the lead. Note the inner forewing is paler on the drake than the duck.

A closer fly-by with the drake nearest me.

Here one of the two ducks comes back for a splash-down.

A Sparrowhawk dashes over. In this view the tail bands are visible but the belly looks streaked.

A second or so later and the belly is clearly banded. The under tail is too shaded to see the bands.

Gathering more nesting material is a Long-tailed Tit.

A male Bullfinch feeding on buds – as they do.

Munch, munch, munch.

And now for another of those delicious buds.

A female Greenfinch. Males are much brighter green at this time of year.

"Are you looking at me?"

A smart Goldfinch. I cannot tell which sex it is. The shape of the back-edge of the red apparently differs between males and females but I can never reliably decide which I am looking at.

Plane of the day: this is an Aeropro EuroFOX 2K operated out of a private airstrip close to the owners home near Tarporley, Cheshire resident. It is on its way to visit the Mid-Wales Airport on the outskirts of Welshpool. This Slovak designed two-seat light sport aircraft has multiple high-lift devices enabling to use very short grass runways. Notable in this view are the split flaps along the trailing edge of the wings. Over 600 have been built. Some in Europe have been amateur-built from kits. Aeropro, the US concessionaires, only sells completed aircraft.

(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

2014

Priorslee Lake

8 Pochard 

5 Tufted Duck

5 Cormorant

1 Kittiwake

1 Great Black-backed Gull.

1 Iceland Gull

1 Caspian Gull

23 Redwings

c.800 Jackdaws

 >300 Rooks

 9 Siskins

(Ed Wilson, J. Reeves, P. Jordan, John Isherwood, Gary Crowder)

The Flash

1 Little Grebe

215 Tufted Ducks

2 Goosanders

(Ed Wilson)

Trench Middle Pool

11 Tufted Duck

(Ed Wilson)

Telford Crematorium

Cackling Goose

300 Lesser Black-backed Gull

c.20 Herring Gull

500 Black-headed Gull 

1 Great Black-backed Gull

(Gary Crowder)

Nedge Hill

1 Stonechat

(John Isherwood)

2013

Priorslee Lake

3 Great Crested Grebes

25 Wigeon

4 Gadwall

17 Tufted Ducks

(Ed Wilson)

The Flash

Greater Scaup

50 Tufted Duck

12 Pochard

(Jim Shannon)

2012

Priorslee Lake

5 Redpoll

Priorslee Flash

1 Goosander

Nedge Hill

8 Lapwing

(John Isherwood)

2010

Priorslee Lake

1 Little Grebe 

5 Great Crested Grebes

4 Gadwall

47 Pochard

55 Tufted Duck

c.550 Black-headed Gulls

c. 800 Lesser Black-backed Gulls 

56 Herring Gulls

(Ed Wilson)

2007

Priorslee Lake

1 Little Grebe

7 Pochard

7 Tufted Duck

1 Ruddy Duck

2 Kestrel

1 Peregrine Falcon

1 Lapwing

3 Grey Wagtail

26 Wren

28 Robin

21 Blackbird

15 Redwing

53 Magpie

14 Greenfinch

6 Reed Bunting

(Ed Wilson)

2006

Priorslee Lake

1 Little Grebe

6 Great Crested Grebes

2 Gadwall

9 Pochard

56 Tufted Ducks

5 Cormorants

121 Coot

1 Mediterranean Gull

c.1100 Black-headed Gulls

211 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

33 Herring Gulls.

741 Wood Pigeon

289 Jackdaws

108 Rooks

290 Starlings

21 Reed Bunting

1 Sky Lark

11 Greenfinches

6 Siskins

23 Reed Buntings

(Ed Wilson)

29 Pied Wagtails

23 Blackbirds

6 Greenfinches

17 Siskins

1 Redpoll

6 Reed Buntings

(Ed Wilson)