30 Apr 25

23 Apr - 7 May
Between the above dates there will only be unedited text for Ed's sightings.

Photos etc. will be added from 8 May onwards.

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Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:10 – 06:10 // 07:15 – 09:40
The Flash: 06:15 – 07:10

9.0°C > 17.0°C: Fine, again with some high cloud. Less hazy. Very light, mainly easterly breeze. Very good visibility.
Sunrise: 05:40 BST

* = a species photographed today. Photos will appear later.
$ = my first sighting of the species for this year

Priorslee Balancing Lake:
(108th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the pair of Greylag Geese still with five goslings.
- a visiting pair of Mute Swans included the erstwhile resident pen with blue Darvic ring 7JSS. Today she was with another (near?) adult: her previous visits have been with a first year bird. The now resident pen spent almost all the time at the nest site.
- the duck Pochard still present.
- a change with the warblers. The Willow Warbler gone; all Sedge Warblers moved on; the Lesser Whitethroat not heard and may either have gone or now be paired and busy with nesting duties.
- just on singing Common Whitethroat noted.
- the clearer visibility enabled many more Jackdaws to be logged on their roost dispersal to the East.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 4 Canada Goose: two pairs outbound
- 1 Stock Dove
- 15 Wood Pigeons
- 1 Herring Gull
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 10 distant unidentified large gulls together
- 109 Jackdaws
- 18 Rooks

Counts from the lake area:
- 8 Canada Geese
- *2 + 5 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- *4 Mute Swans: a pair(?) visited and were chased away
- 6 (5♂) Mallard
- 1 (0♂) Pochard
- 6 Moorhens again
- 35 + 9 (3 broods) Coots
- 8 Great Crested Grebes
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, adult on football field again until c.06:10
- 1 Cormorant: arrived

No hirundines etc. noted:

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- no Willow Warblers
- 20 (17) Chiffchaffs
- no Sedge Warblers
- 11 (10) Reed Warblers
- 23 (18) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Garden Warbler
- no Lesser Whitethroats
- 1 (1) Common Whitethroat

Noted on the West end street lamp poles pre-dawn:
Moths:
*1 Common Plume Emmelina monodactyla
Flies:
*$ 1 male St Mark's Fly or Hawthorn Fly Bibio marci
1 "chimney sweep" midge
Plant Bug:
*$ 1 male Harpocera thoracica
Spiders:
*$ 1 House Spider Eratigena duellica

Noted later:
NB: I concentrated on trying to find Ramson Hoverfly Portevinia maculata that associates with Ramsons (wild Garlic). I didn't! What I did note below was mainly "in passing".
Butterflies:
Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines: males only
$ Small White Pieris rapae
*Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
Moths:
*$ Green Long-horn Adela reaumurella
Bees, wasps etc.:
*Orange-tailed Mining Bee Andrena haemorrhoa aka Early Mining Bee
*$ Early Bumblebee Bombus pratorum
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
for some reason the vegetation that had been alive with Nomad Bees yesterday was devoid of them today
Hoverflies:
*Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax
Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae [Migrant Hoverfly; Migrant Aphideater]
*Tiger Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus
Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]
Common Pipiza Pipiza noctiluca [Common Pithead]
*Syrphus sp. S. ribesii / S. vitripennis
Alder Flies:
Alder Fly Sialis lutaria
Other flies
St Mark's Fly or Hawthorn Fly Bibio marci
Dark-edged Bee-fly Bombilius major
many unidentified flies
Dragon-/Damsel-flies:
*Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula
unidentified "blue". My earliest record of any of this group sadly got away.
Beetles:
Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:
Moths:
*1 Water Carpet Lampropteryx suffumata
Flies
2 Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly, Moth Fly or Owl Fly]
11 midges of at least three species

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:
(105th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- this sets a precedent: it is an even-numbered date there were an even number of Great Crested Grebes. That has not happened for a while.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 1 Jackdaw

Noted on / around the water:
- 14 Canada Geese
- 2 Greylag Geese
- 1 Mute Swan: the other resident presumed to be on the island.
- 19 (16♂) Mallard
- 11 (7♂) Tufted Duck
- 1 Moorhens only: all busy at nest sites?
- 24 Coots
- 2 Great Crested Grebes

No hirundines etc. noted:

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 5 (5) Chiffchaffs
- 5 (5) Blackcaps

Noted around the area:
On a street lamp pole:
Moths:
*1 Swallow Prominent Pheosia tremula
Elsewhere
New flower for the year
*Ivy-leaved Toadflax Cymbalaria muralis

(Ed Wilson)

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Of interest between the Balancing Lake and The Flash:
*the Moorhens on the lower pool have young
a Reed Warbler was singing quietly alongside the lower pool. My first here (I have noted Sedge Warblers in transit occasionally in the past).

(Ed Wilson)

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2013
Priorslee Lake
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Raven
2 Reed Warbler
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Whinchat
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 White Wagtail
2 Common Redstart
40 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

Long Lane, Wellington
3 Whimbrel
(JW Reeves)

2012
Priorslee Lake
1 Lesser Whitethroat
1 Reed Warbler
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Common Redstart
15 Wheatear
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Raven
(John Isherwood)

The Wrekin
2 Pied Flycatchers
Common Redstart
(Observer Unknown)

2009
Priorslee Lake
Hobby
2 Red-legged Partridge
Lesser Whitethroat
Cormorant
5 Lapwings
6 Reed Warblers
3 Whitethroats
8 Blackcaps
5 Chiffchaffs
4 Linnet
(Ed Wilson)

2008
Priorslee Lake
17 Mute Swans
(Martin Adlam)

2007
Priorslee Lake
1 Swift
c.20 Sand Martins
1 Swallow
6 House Sparrows
2 Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Kestrel
2 Stock Dove
2 Grey Wagtails
1 Sedge Warbler
4 Reed Warblers
Chiffchaff
126 Jackdaw
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Buzzards
Swallow
Ring Ouzel
2 Common Whitethroat
1 Chiffchaff
2 Linnets
(Ed Wilson)

Priorslee Flash
3 Great Crested Grebes
Reed Bunting
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
5 Great Crested Grebes
2 Greylag Geese
6 Tufted Ducks
2 Common Sandpiper
1 Cuckoo
1 Skylark
c.10 Sand Martins
c.8 Swallows
c.20 House Martins
1 Meadow Pipit
2 Grey Wagtails
32 Wren
26 Blackbirds
2 Sedge Warblers
3 Reed Warblers
2 Lesser Whitethroats
2 Garden Warbler
10 Blackcaps
6 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
1 Jay
11 Chaffinches
8 Greenfinches
3 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)

29 Apr 25

23 Apr - 7 May
Between the above dates there will only be unedited text for Ed's sightings.

Photos etc. will be added from 8 May onwards.

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Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:10 – 06:15 // 07:20 – 09:45
The Flash: 06:20 – 07: 15

9.0°C > 18.0°C: Fine with some high cloud. Hazy again. Very light mainly easterly breeze. Good visibility.
Sunrise: 05:42 BST

* = a species photographed today. Photos will appear later.
$ = my first sighting of the species for this year

Priorslee Balancing Lake:
(107th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- *the pair of Greylag Geese still with five goslings.
- the duck Pochard still present.
- a Common Sandpiper was seen on the dam-face at 08:30 but not previously.
- *the singing Willow Warbler still present.
- just one singing Sedge Warbler now.
- the Lesser Whitethroat was not heard until c.09:30.
- two singing Common Whitethroats noted.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 8 Canada Goose: single flew South; single did not know where it was going; a pair and a quartet inbound.
- 1 Stock Dove
- 14 Wood Pigeons
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 11 Jackdaws
- 16 Rooks

Counts from the lake area:
- 8 Canada Geese
- *3 + 5 (1 brood) Greylag Geese: of these a single arrived
- 2 Mute Swans: no visit to the nest site noted.
- 4 (4♂) Mallard
- 1 (0♂) Pochard
- 6 Moorhens
- 32 + 13 (4 broods) Coots
- 6 Great Crested Grebes
- *1 Common Sandpiper: as noted
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, adult on football field c.06:10

No hirundines etc. noted:

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- *1 (1) Willow Warbler
- 18 (15) Chiffchaffs
- 1 (1) Sedge Warbler
- 10 (10) Reed Warblers
- 17 (16) Blackcaps
- 1 (1) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- 2 (2) Common Whitethroats

Noted on the West end street lamp poles pre-dawn:
Moths:
none
Bees, wasps, etc.:
*3 ichneumon sp. perhaps Ophion obscuratus
Spiders:
1 Long-jawed Orb-web Spiders Tetragnatha sp.

Also noted later:
Butterflies:
*Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines: males and female
*$ Green-veined White Pieris napi
*Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
Bees, wasps etc.:
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
unidentified Nomad Bee sp.
*$ sawfly Aglaostigma aucupariae
*ichneumon, perhaps from the genus Lissonata.
Hoverflies:
*$ possible Figwort Blacklet Cheilosia variabilis
Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax
*$ Short Melanostoma Melanostoma mellinum [Variable Duskyface]
Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]
*$ Common Pipiza Pipiza noctiluca [Common Pithead]
Grey-spotted Boxer Platycheirus albimanus [Grey-spotted Sedgesitter or White-footed Hoverfly]
Alder Flies:
Alder Fly Sialis lutaria
Other flies
Dark-edged Bee-fly Bombilius major
many unidentified flies
Dragon-/Damsel-flies:
none
Bugs:
*$ Dock Bug Coreus marginatus
Beetles:
Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
Spiders:
*$ Zebra Spider Salticus scenicus
unidentified money spider

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:
Flies
2 Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly, Moth Fly or Owl Fly]
3 midges of at least three species
Spiders:
*1 money spider sp.

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:
(104th visit of the year)

Highlight today was a party of about six House Martins that appeared overhead, circled the estate area to the East and departed. Resident birds appeared over Newport yesterday afternoon so the main arrival seems to be taking place. Bird species #67 for me here in 2025 - as it was in both 2023 and 2024 though on both those occasions it was in to May before I recorded any.

Other bird notes:
- despite often behaving as mostly paired the Tufted Duck seem to change number and composition every day.
- as it is an odd-numbered date there were an even number of Great Crested Grebes: two!
- my fourth Sedge Warbler of the year here was noted singing intermittently from somewhere at the bottom end – I never established exactly where.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Jackdaws: singles again

Noted on / around the water:
- 18 Canada Geese
- 1 Greylag Goose
- 1 Mute Swan: the other resident presumed to be on the island.
- 16 (14♂) Mallard
- 14 (9♂) Tufted Duck
- 4 Moorhens again
- 23 + ? (1 brood) Coots: juveniles still being brooded and not visible
- 2 Great Crested Grebes
- 1 Herring Gull: moulting immature briefly
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls: adults, departed.

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 6? House Martins

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 6 (4) Chiffchaffs
- 1 (1) Sedge Warbler
- 7 (5) Blackcaps

Noted elsewhere:
On various street lamp poles:
Moths:
none
Springtail:
*1 Tomocerus vulgaris

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Nedge Hill
2 Lesser Whitethroat
10 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2013
Priorslee Lake
2 Great Crested Grebes
1 Common Sandpiper
4 Reed Warblers
2 Common Whitethroat
18 Blackcaps
7 Chiffchaffs
5 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
3 Greylag Goose
1 Richardson's / Cackling-type Canada Goose
1 Pochard
11 Tufted Duck
4 Blackcaps
3 Chiffchaffs
5 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Red-legged Partridges
Swallows
7 Wheatear
2 Common Whitethroats
3 Blackcaps
1 Chiffchaffs
4 Bullfinches
(Ed Wilson)

2011
Priorslee Lake
3 Common Sandpipers
(Ed Wilson, John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
2 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2010
The Wrekin
1 Wood Warbler
4 Common Redstart
1 Pied Flycatcher
(Paul Rutter)

2009
Priorslee Lake
Common Sandpiper
1 Sand Martin
2 Swallows
6 Reed Warblers
Common Whitethroat
3 Blackcap
4 Chiffchaff
3 Reed Buntings
3 Linnets
1 Yellowhammer
(Ed Wilson)

2007
Priorslee Lake
4 Great Crested Grebe
6 Tufted Duck
2 Ruddy Duck
3 Swifts
2 Sand Martins
4 Swallows
4 Cormorants
1 Kestrel
1 Sparrowhawk
3 Common Sandpipers
2 Grey Wagtail
6 Blackcap
1 Garden Warbler
2 Sedge Warbler
2 Reed Warblers
5 Chiffchaff
3 Greenfinch
2 Reed Bunting
(Ed Wilson, Martin Adlam)

Nedge Hill
1 Ring Ouzel
Common Whitethroat
2 Swallows
(Martin Adlam)

Priorslee Flash
2 Greylag Geese
1 Grey Wagtail here
2 Chiffchaffs
1 Reed Bunting
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
3 Great Crested Grebes
2 Ruddy Ducks
1 Common Buzzard
1 Kestrel
1 Swallows
1 Grey Wagtail
4 Sedge Warbler
2 Reed Warblers
4 Blackcaps
2 Garden Warbler
5 Chiffchaffs
3 Willow Warblers
2 Lesser Whitethroat
4 Greenfinches
2 Reed Buntings
(Martin Adlam)

28 Apr 25

23 Apr - 7 May
Between the above dates there will only be unedited text for Ed's sightings.

Photos etc. will be added from 8 May onwards.

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Priorslee Balancing Lake:
(106th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the pair of Greylag Geese still with five goslings.
- the pair of Gadwall gone again {I have been told they have been seen using the storm pools across Castle Farm Way].
- the duck Pochard still present.
- a Common Sandpiper was again on the south-west grass at 05:30 but not seen subsequently.
- a singing Willow Warbler was a surprise. I assumed they had all passed through by now.
- still two singing Sedge Warblers.
- the Lesser Whitethroat still mostly heard singing from the dense Hawthorns alongside the West end path. It is unusual for this species to be heard singing like this. Normally almost as soon as they arrive they pair up and stay silent (and hidden) only announcing their presence when the male sings again, briefly, between broods.
- only the male Common Whitethroat singing from the south-west scrub noted.


Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Canada Goose: pair outbound
- 16 Wood Pigeons
- 3 Herring Gulls
- 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 12 Jackdaws
- 6 Rooks

Counts from the lake area:
- 9 Canada Geese: the highest count though again possibly more individuals as birds flew in and out
- 4 + 5 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- *4 Mute Swans: a visiting pair was chased off by both the residents at 07:40. Otherwise the pen was mostly at the nest site
- no Gadwall
- 4 (3♂) Mallard
- 1 (0♂) Pochard
- 9 Moorhens
- 26 + 6 (2 broods) Coots
- 5 Great Crested Grebes only
- 1 Common Sandpiper: departed
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, adults briefly

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 1 Barn Swallow

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 1 (1) Willow Warbler
- 17 (15) Chiffchaffs
- 2 (2) Sedge Warblers
- 11 (11) Reed Warblers
- 19 (18) Blackcaps
- *1 (1) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- 1 (1) Common Whitethroat

Noted on the West end street lamp poles pre-dawn:
Moths:
*1 Chocolate-tip Clostera curtula : moth species #8 here this year and my fourth record here (last 2021)
Spiders:
*1 Stout Sac Spider Clubiona sp.

Also noted later:
Butterflies:
*Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines: one male
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
*$ Peacock Aglais io
Bees, wasps etc.:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
*unidentified Nomad Bee sp.
Common Wasp Paravespula vulgaris
Hoverflies:
*$ Cheilosia albitarsus agg. either C. ranunculi [Early Buttercup Cheilosia] or C. albitarsis [Late Buttercup Cheilosia]
Spring Epistrophe Epistrophe eligans [Spring Smoothtail]
Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax
Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae [Migrant Hoverfly; Migrant Aphideater] *Tiger Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus
Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]
*Dead-head Hoverfly Myathropa florea [Common Batman Fly]
*$ possible Parasyrphus sp. (also known as forest syrphs)
*$ Grey-spotted Boxer Platycheirus albimanus [Grey-spotted Sedgesitter or White-footed Hoverfly]
Syrphus sp. S. ribesii / S. vitripennis
Alder Flies:
Alder Fly Sialis lutaria
Other flies
many unidentified flies
Dragon-/Damsel-flies:
none
Beetles:
Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
Spiders:
*unidentified money spider
*other unidentified spider

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:
Flies
3 Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly, Moth Fly or Owl Fly]
4 midges of at least three species
Arthropods:
1 White-legged Snake Millipede Tachypodoiulus niger

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:
(103rd visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- of course there were three Great Crested Grebes today.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Jackdaws: singles

Noted on / around the water:
- 20 Canada Geese again
- 3 Greylag Geese
- 1 Mute Swan: the other resident presumed to be on the island.
- 12 (10♂) Mallard again
- 14 (4♂) Tufted Duck
- 4 Moorhens only
- 25 + ? (1 brood) Coots: juveniles still being brooded and not visible
- 3 Great Crested Grebes

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 6 (4) Chiffchaffs
- 7 (5) Blackcaps

Noted elsewhere:
On various street lamp poles:
Moths:
1 Streamer Anticlea derivata: same place as yesterday
Flies:
*cranefly Tipula confusa
New flowers for the year:
*$ Red Campion Silene dioica or Melandrium rubrum [also at the lake and in Woodhouse Lane]

(Ed Wilson)

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Woodhouse Lane
(4th visit of the year)
It seems others have better luck here than I did this morning. A birder recently moved in to one of the houses on the new estates walked the lane yesterday with the definite highlight
- a White Stork heading South. Even worse he managed to take a photo of it!
Otherwise he noted:
- a pair of Gadwall on one of the storm pools
- a Common Sandpiper around one of these pools
- a Kestrel hovering over
- 3 Common Whitethroats
- 5 Yellowhammers with two singing
Thanks to Blake for emailing me this info.

My attempt this morning produced:
- no Pheasants seen or heard
- 2 Stock Doves
- 2 (2) Sky Larks: both distant
- 4 (4) Chiffchaffs
- 4 (3) Common Whitethroats
- no Song Thrushes
- 5 (4) Chaffinches
- 1 or 2 Linnets heard in flight
- 2 (1) Yellowhammer
Butterflies:
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
Bees, wasps etc.:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Hoverflies:
Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax
*Tiger Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus
Syrphus sp. S. ribesii / S. vitripennis
Flies:
*$ Fannia lustrator
*$ Tiger Cranefly Nephrotoma flavescens
*$ possible Tachinid fly Siphona geniculata
*$ cranefly Tipula varipennis

Flowers
*$ Smooth Sow-thistle or Milk Thistle Sonchus oleraceus

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Nedge Hill
2 Lesser Whitethroat
10 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2013
Priorslee Lake
2 Cormorants
2 Swans
5 Greylag Geese
1 Common Sandpiper
8 Swallows
1 Swift
2 Reed Warblers
2 Common Whitethroat
17 Blackcaps
8 Chiffchaffs
4 Willow Warblers
1 Common Redstart
1 Nuthatch
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
3 Greylag Goose
1 Richardson's / Cackling-type Canada Goose
1 Pochard
11 Tufted Duck
4 Blackcaps
3 Chiffchaffs
5 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

2012
Priorslee Lake
6 Goosanders
6 Greylag Geese
2 Tufted Duck
6 Goosander
1 Grasshopper Warbler
2 Sedge Warbler
18 Blackcaps
4 Willow Warblers
14 Chiffchaffs
1 Wheatear
1 Swift
Swallow
House Martin
Sand Martin
1 Skylark
1 Yellowhammer
(Ed Wilson, Phil Walters)

Priorslee Flash
4 Greylag Geese
27 Tufted Duck
5 Blackcaps
4 Willow Warblers
3 Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)

2011
Priorslee Lake
5 Reed Warblers
2 Common Whitethroat
10 Blackcaps
10 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
(Ed Wilson, John Isherwood)

Priorslee Flash
3 Blackcaps
4 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
1 Reed Bunting
(Ed Wilson, John Isherwood)

2010
Priorslee Lake
1 Sedge Warbler
2 Reed Warbler
2 Common Sandpiper
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Whinchat
2 Lesser Whitethroat
18+ Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2007
Priorslee Lake
6 Great Crested Grebes
6 Tufted Ducks
Ruddy Duck
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Lesser Whitethroat
Sedge Warbler
Reed Warblers
2 House Sparrows
(Ed Wilson, John Isherwood)

2006
Priorslee Lake
5 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
2 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Duck
1 Kestrel
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Cormorant
1 Stock Dove
3 Sand Martins
10 Swallows
1 Grey Wagtails
5 Sedge Warbler
2 Reed Warblers
7 Blackcaps
1 Garden Warbler
4 Chiffchaffs
4 Willow Warblers
1 Lesser Whitethroat
3 Reed Buntings
(Martin Adlam)

27 Apr 25

23 Apr - 7 May
Between the above dates there will only be unedited text for Ed's sightings.

Photos etc. will be added from 8 May onwards.

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Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:15 – 06:15 // 07:20 – 09:30
The Flash: 06:20 – 07: 15

6.0°C > 12.0°C: A few wisps of high cloud otherwise clear apart from a few lingering local mist patches. Very light winds. Good visibility with some haze again.
Sunrise: 05:46 BST

* = a species photographed today. Photos will appear later – out of time.
$ = my first sighting of the species for this year

Priorslee Balancing Lake:
(105th visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- a pair of Greylag Geese with five goslings was a surprise. Where was their nest?
- the pair of Gadwall was back on the south-west grass.
- the duck Pochard still present.
- an Oystercatcher flew in from the East at 08:00 for the south-west grass. It departed East at 08:50.
- a Common Sandpiper was on the south-west grass at 05:30 but not seen subsequently.
- the Cetti's Warbler favoured the West end most of the time and was somewhat less vocal.
- just two singing Sedge Warblers remain.
- two Garden Warblers: only one singing.
- the Lesser Whitethroat still mostly heard singing from the dense Hawthorns alongside the West end path without company today.
- a the male Common Whitethroat singing from the south-west scrub. An unsexed bird was seen along the South side.
- no Starlings seen on the football field: the only one noted here today flew over there heading East.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 1 Canada Goose: a single outbound
- 1 Greylag Goose: a single outbound
- 11 Wood Pigeons
- 2 Herring Gulls
- 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Starling
- 34 Jackdaws
- 2 Rook

Counts from the lake area:
- 11 Canada Geese: the highest count though possibly more individuals as birds flew in and out
- *2 + 5 (1 brood) Greylag Geese
- 2 Mute Swans: neither resident visited the nest site
- 2 (1♂) Gadwall
- 3 (3♂) Mallard
- 1 (0♂) Pochard
- 6 Moorhens
- 28 + 4 (1 brood) Coots
- 7 Great Crested Grebes
- 1 Oystercatcher: arrived and departed
- 1 Common Sandpiper: departed
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 1 Cormorant: arrived

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 2 Swifts
- 2 Sand Martins

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler
- 22 (18) Chiffchaffs
- *2 (2) Sedge Warblers
- 9 (9) Reed Warblers
- 17 (16) Blackcaps
- *2 (1) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- 2 (1) Common Whitethroats

Noted on the West end street lamp poles pre-dawn:
Bees, wasps etc.:
*1 ichneumon-type
Spiders:
1 Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.

Also noted later:
Butterflies:
*$ Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines : at least five males
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
$ unidentified "white"
Bees, wasps etc.:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
*unidentified Nomad Bee sp.
*$ Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis
*Common Wasp Paravespula vulgaris
Hoverflies:
*$ probable Parsley Blacklet Cheilosia pagana
*$ Spring Epistrophe Epistrophe eligans [Spring Smoothtail]
*Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax
*$ Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae [Migrant Hoverfly; Migrant Aphideater]
Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]
*$ Dead-head Hoverfly Myathropa florea [Common Batman Fly]
*Syrphus sp. S. ribesii / S. vitripennis
Alder Flies:
Alder Fly Sialis lutaria
Other flies
several unidentified flies
Dragon-/Damsel-flies:
*$ Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Beetles:
Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
Spiders:
Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:
Flies
9 midges of at least three species

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:
(102nd visit of the year)

A somewhat unexpected addition to my 2025 bird list for here at this date was Starling. Tow birds presumably nesting in the estate flew over on a feeding foray. Species #66.

Bird notes:
- the Tufted Ducks were arranged as six pair and a lone drake.
- back to just two Great Crested Grebes.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Jackdaws: together

Noted on / around the water:
- 20 Canada Geese
- 2 Greylag Geese
- 1 Mute Swan: the other resident presumed to be on the island.
- 12 (10♂) Mallard
- 13 (6♂) Tufted Duck
- 6 Moorhens
- 25 + ? (1 brood) Coots: juveniles still being brooded and not visible
- 2 Great Crested Grebes

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 7 (7) Chiffchaffs again
- 4 (4) Blackcaps again

Noted elsewhere:
On various street lamp poles:
Moths:
*1 $ Streamer Anticlea derivata: my first here since 2018
*1 $ Swallow Prominent Pheosia tremula
Moth species #4 and #5 here this year
Beetles:
Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
New flowers for the year:
*$ Wood Avens Geum urbanum


(Ed Wilson)

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2013
Priorslee Lake
4 Great Crested Grebes
2 Greylag Geese
3 Common Sandpipers
1 Reed Warblers
1 Common Whitethroat
11 Blackcaps
10 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
Wood Warbler
2 Great Crested Grebe
1 Greylag Goose
1 Richardson's / Cackling-type Canada Goose
16 Tufted Duck
5 Blackcaps
Wood Warbler
1 Chiffchaff
6 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

The Wrekin
3 Wood Warblers
1 Redstart
5 Pied Flycatchers
2 Tree Pipits
2 Redpolls
1 Siskin
(Ed Wilson, JW Reeves)

2012
Priorslee Lake
6 Tufted Duck
6 Swift
50 Swallow
25 House Martin
2 Sand Martin
1 Grasshopper Warbler
1 Wheatear
1 Sedge Warbler
6 Common Sandpiper
(John Isherwood, Martin Grant)

Nedge Hill
1 Lesser Whitethroat
26 Wheatear
1 Greenland Wheatear
1 Fieldfare
1 Raven
(John Isherwood)

2011
Priorslee Lake
1 Wood Sandpiper
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Sedge Warbler
1 Lesser Whitethroat
1 Swift
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
2 Wheatear
1 Lesser Whitethroat
(John Isherwood)

2008
Priorslee Lake
3 Sedge Warblers
6 Reed Warblers
2 Lesser Whitethroats
2 Whitethroats
1 Garden Warbler
9 Blackcaps
9 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
1 Little Grebe
2 Common Sandpipers
c.10 Sand Martins
c.45 Swallows
1 House Martin
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
4 Sand Martins
12 Swallows
2 Blackcaps
4 Chiffchaffs
4 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

The lane to the E of Priorslee
6 Whitethroats
1 Blackcap
3 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
2 Linnets
3 Yellowhammers
(Ed Wilson)

2007
Priorslee Lake
9 Great Crested Grebes
5 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Ducks
1 Kestrel
2 Stock Doves
2 Swallows
House Martins
2 Grey Wagtails
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
1 Jay
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Swallows
House Martin
Ring Ouzel
Fieldfare
Common Whitethroat
Blackcaps
Chiffchaff
Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

Priorslee Flash
1 Swallow
6 Willow Warbler
Reed Bunting
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
5 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
3 Greylag Geese
2 Ruddy Ducks
3 Common Sandpipers
1 Stock Dove
7 Swallows
3 Grey Wagtails
26 Wrens
17 Robins
30 Blackbirds
9 Song Thrushes
1 Sedge Warbler
3 Reed Warblers
8 Blackcaps
4 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
5 Greenfinches
5 Reed Buntings
(Ed Wilson)

26 Apr 25

23 Apr - 7 May
Between the above dates there will only be unedited text for Ed's sightings.

Photos etc. will be added from 8 May onwards.

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Priorslee Balancing Lake: 05:00 – 06:20 // 07:25 – 10:00
The Flash: 06:25 – 07: 20

9.0°C > 13.0°C: Cloudy at medium level. Light south-easterly wind. Moderate visibility with haze again.
Sunrise: 05:48 BST

* = a species photographed today.

Priorslee Balancing Lake:
(104th visit of the year)

New here were my first Swifts of the year c.08:30. Bird species 93.5 this year here.

Bird notes:
- perhaps too much disturbance from dog-walkers: the pair of Gadwall was not noted.
- the duck Pochard still present.
- eight Lesser Black-backed Gulls arrived c.05:25, mostly adults. They left after a few minuted to the East and thus the three adults on the football field c.06:10 were different birds. At 05:35 nine Herring Gulls with an immature Lesser Black-backed Gull dropped in for a drink and bathe and were gone by 05:45.
- another possible sighting of a second Cetti's Warbler. A male was singing from one of its favourite perches when a small dark bird dived in to cover and the erstwhile singing Cetti's quickly followed it.
- six Sedge Warblers heard singing. My highest-ever numbers here during the passage period.
- a second singing Garden Warbler.
- Blackcap numbers even larger! They were everywhere today.
- the Lesser Whitethroat was again mostly heard singing from the dense Hawthorns alongside the West end path where it had a Sedge Warbler, a Garden Warbler and a Blackcap for company. I saw it make one rapid tour of all the bushes and trees between the path and the lake.
- only the male Common Whitethroat noted: at the West end.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Greylag Geese: a pair inbound
- 15 Wood Pigeons
- 1 Collared Dove
- 7 Herring Gulls
- 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 2 Jackdaws
- 1 Rook
- 1 Raven

Counts from the lake area:
- 9 Canada Geese: of these three pairs and a single arrived separately
- 2 Greylag Geese: a pair briefly
- 4 Mute Swans: a pair arrived and had to be chased away. Neither resident visited the nest site
- no Gadwall
- 5 (3♂) Mallard
- 1 (0♂) Pochard
- 7 Moorhens
- 29 + 4 (2 broods) Coots
- 8 Great Crested Grebes
- 9 Herring Gulls
- 12 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Cormorant: arrived
- 1 Grey Heron: departed to the West 06:05

Hirundines etc. noted:
- 2 Swifts
- 4 Sand Martins
- 3 Barn Swallows
- 1 House Martin

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler: see notes – perhaps a second?
- 19 (14) Chiffchaffs
- 6 (6) Sedge Warblers
- 10 (10) Reed Warblers
- 21 (19) Blackcaps
- 2 (2) Garden Warbler
- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat
- 1 (1) Common Whitethroats

Nothing noted on the West end street lamp poles pre-dawn:
Flies:
1 Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly, Moth Fly or Owl Fly]
Springtails:
1 springtail Pogonognathellus longicornis
Beetles:
1 Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
Spiders:
1 Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.
So where are all the moths this year?

Also noted:
Bees, wasps etc.,:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Hoverflies:
Chequered Hoverfly Melanostoma scalare [Long-winged Duskyface]
Common Snout Rhingia campestris [Common Snout Fly; Heineken Fly]
Alder Flies:
Alder Fly Sialis lutaria
Other flies
possible male Murky-legged Black Legionnaire Beris chalybata
several other unidentified flies
Beetles:
Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni
Spiders:
Long-jawed Orb-web Spider Tetragnatha sp.
money spider sp.
Plants photographed:
Cleavers Galium aparine
Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata

(Ed Wilson)

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In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:
Flies
2 Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly, Moth Fly or Owl Fly]
1 cranefly Tipula vittata
1 other cranefly
7 midges of at least three species

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:
(101st visit of the year)

Bird notes:
- the hybrid goose with the very pale face was noted for the first time since 08 April. Which reminds me I have not seen the Canada Goose with the "angel wing" deformity for several weeks.
- three Great Crested Grebes again!
- my third singing Sedge Warbler of the year here: along the East side.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:
- 2 Jackdaws: singles

Noted on / around the water:
- 19 Canada Geese
- 1 Canada x Greylag Goose
- 1 Mute Swan: the other resident presumed to be on the island.
- 13 (11♂) Mallard
- 1 (1♂) feral Mallard x ?
- 11 (6♂) Tufted Duck
- 7 Moorhens
- 26 + ? (1 brood) Coots: juveniles still being brooded and not visible
- 3 Great Crested Grebes

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):
- 7 (7) Chiffchaffs
- 1 (1) Sedge Warbler
- 4 (4) Blackcaps

Nothing of note elsewhere:

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Priorslee Lake
3 Cranes
(Observer Unknown)

The Wrekin
3 Wood Warbler
(Damon H, Jim A, Yvonne C)

2013
Priorslee Lake
1 Cormorant
1 Dunlin
1 Common Sandpipers
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 Wheatear
3 Reed Warblers
12 Blackcaps
7 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
3 Greylag Goose
1 Richardson's / Cackling-type Canada Goose
3 Pochard
7 Tufted Duck
4 Blackcaps
2 Chiffchaffs
4 Willow Warblers
2 Swallows
1 Redpoll
(Ed Wilson)

Trench Middle Pool
3 Great Crested Grebes
28 Greylag Geese
1 Tufted Duck
1 Blackcap
3 Chiffchaffs
3 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

Trench Lock Pool
3 Great Crested Grebes
6 Tufted Duck
2 Swifts
c.5 Sand Martins
c.30 Swallows
c.40 House Martins
1 Blackcap
1 Chiffchaff
1 Willow Warbler
Sparrowhawk
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
19 Wheatear
Swallows
(Richard Camp)

Long Lane, Wellington
c10 Ringed Plover
c10 Dunlin
Spotted Redshank
(JV Reeves)

2012
Priorslee Lake
1 Swift
12 House Martin
7 Swallow
(Martin Grant)

2011
The Wrekin
3 Pied Flycatcher
1 Common Redstart
2 Marsh Tit
1 Wood Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

2008
Priorslee Lake
Swift
3 Common Sandpipers
1 Sedge Warbler
6 Reed Warblers
9 Chiffchaffs
(Ed Wilson)

East of Priorslee Lake
6 Whitethroats
2 Skylarks
1 Yellowhammer
(Ed Wilson)

2007
Priorslee Lake
4 Great Crested Grebes
7 Greylag Geese
1 Tufted Duck
3 Swallows
3 Blackcaps
1 Chiffchaff
2 Jays
28 Magpies
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
1 Ring Ouzel
(Peter Nickless)

Priorslee Flash
1 Cormorant
Swallows
34 Blackbirds
6 Willow Warbler
1 Reed Bunting
(Ed Wilson)

Lanes to the east of Priorslee Flash
5 Mallard
1 Buzzard
1 Heron
Skylarks
Blackcaps
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
5 Great Crested Grebes
1 Heron
7 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Ducks
1 Kestrel
1 Common Sandpiper
6 Stock Doves
1 Swift
2 Sand Martins
2 Swallows
1 Yellow Wagtail
2 Grey Wagtails
26 Wrens
26 Blackbirds
1 Sedge Warbler
3 Reed Warblers
1 Lesser Whitethroat
7 Blackcaps
6 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
17 Magpies
1 Raven
7 Greenfinches
5 Reed Buntings.
(Ed Wilson)

25 Apr 25

  23 Apr - 7 May

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Photos etc. will be added from 8 May onwards.

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Priorslee Balancing Lake:  05:05 – 06:15 // 07:35 – 09:35

The Flash:  06:20 – 07: 30

5.0°C > 9.0°C:  A clear start with high cloud encroaching from the West. Light south-easterly wind. Good visibility with haze and mist over the water again.

Sunrise:  05:50 BST

* = a species photographed today.

Priorslee Balancing Lake:

(103rd visit of the year)

Bird notes:

- once again the pair of Gadwall did their 'appearing' trick on the south-west grass: by 08:45.

- the duck Pochard still present.

- yesterday I thought I might have seen a second Cetti's Warbler. I was probably mistaken. The singing bird chased another bird in the same area today but that turned out to be a *Dunnock.

- four Sedge Warblers heard singing. All of them in the same place as yesterday.

- Blackcaps numbers back to full strength.

- what I presumed was the same Lesser Whitethroat was mostly heard singing from the dense Hawthorns alongside the West end path. It made at least two forays across the path and was seen in the bushes around the sailing club's boat yard where it seemed to be pursuing another though I did not see that well-enough to positively identify it.

just a pair of Common Whitethroats noted at the West end. The previously photographed bird along the South side not seen or heard.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:

- 3 Canada Geese: a single and a pair outbound

- 14 Wood Pigeons

- 1 Herring Gull

- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull

- 62 Jackdaws

- 9 Rooks

Counts from the lake area:

- 12 Canada Geese: of these two pairs and a trio arrived separately

- 1 Greylag Goose: briefly

- 2 Mute Swans: one on the nest throughout

- 2 (1♂) Gadwall

- 5 (4♂) Mallard

- 1 (0♂) Pochard

- *8 Moorhens again

- *23 + 5 (2 broods) Coots again

- 7 Great Crested Grebes

- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull: adult seen leaving the football field c.06:05 again

- 1 Cormorant: arrived; a different bird to that seen yesterday

- 1 Grey Heron: flew across the water c.05:30 and not seen again

Hirundines etc. noted:

- 1 Barn Swallow

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):

- 1 (1) Cetti's Warbler

- 16 (14) Chiffchaffs

- 4 (4) Sedge Warblers

- 8 (8) Reed Warblers

- 18 (18) Blackcaps

- *1 (1) Garden Warbler

- 1 (1) Lesser Whitethroat: perhaps a second

- *2 (1) Common Whitethroats

Nothing noted on the West end street lamp poles pre-dawn:

Too much dew?

Also noted:

Hoverflies:

        *female Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax

Alder Flies:

        Alder Fly Sialis lutaria

Other flies

        *unidentified midge sp.

Spiders:

        *Bridge Orb-web Spider Larinioides sclopetarius

New flowers for the year:

        *Red Dead-nettle Lamium purpureum

In the Priorslee Avenue tunnel:

Flies

        *7 Psychodidae sp. [Drain Fly, Moth Fly or Owl Fly]

        various *craneflies and midges

Arthropods:

        *1 White-legged Snake Millipede Tachypodoiulus niger

(Ed Wilson)

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The Flash:

(100th visit of the year)

Bird notes:

- a visiting pair of Mute Swans was being seen off by the resident cob just as I arrived.

- again two Great Crested Grebes noted, and again only loosely together and not particularly close to the island either.

Bird(s) noted flying over here:

- 1 Herring Gull: immature

- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull: adult

- 5 Jackdaws: singles

Noted on / around the water:

- 18 Canada Geese again

- 3 Greylag Geese again

- 3 Mute Swans: a pair chased off; the other resident presumed to be on the island.

- 18 (16♂) Mallard

- 12 (7♂) Tufted Duck

- 6 Moorhens

- 26 + 6 (1 brood) Coots

- 2 Great Crested Grebes

Warblers recorded (the figure in brackets is birds noted singing):

- 6 (5) Chiffchaffs

- 5 (5) Blackcaps

Noted elsewhere:

        *1 possible Robber fly Dioctria sp.

(Ed Wilson)

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2014
Priorslee Lake
1 Reed Warbler
1 Sedge Warbler
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
1 Lesser Whitethroat
5 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2013
Priorslee Lake
Tawny Owl
4 Great Crested Grebes
2 Cormorants
2 Lapwings
2 Common Sandpiper
3 Reed Warblers
14 Blackcaps
8 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

The Flash
2 Great Crested Grebe
1 Greylag Goose
1 Richardson's / Cackling-type Canada Goose
12 Tufted Duck
5 Song Thrushes
3 Blackcaps
3 Chiffchaffs
3 Willow Warblers
(Ed Wilson)

Woodhouse Lane
3 Common Whitethroats
2 Linnets.
7 Yellowhammers
Blackcaps
Chiffchaffs
Willow Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
4 Meadow Pipits
4 Skylark
20 Wheatear
2 Fieldfare
1 Lesser Whitethroat.
2 Common Whitethroats.
3 Blackcaps.
2 Chiffchaffs.
1 Linnet.
2 Yellowhammer
(Ed Wilson, John Isherwood)

Long Lane, Wellington
1 Whimbrel
2 Curlew
6 Dunlin
2 Ringed Plover
(JW Reeves)

2012
Priorslee Lake
35 Swallows
2 House Martins
Grey Wagtail
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
2 Swift
1 Grasshopper Warbler
(John Isherwood, J W Reeves, Martin Grant)

Nedge Hill
1 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2011
Priorslee Lake
1 Yellow Wagtail
Common Sandpiper
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
9 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

2010
Priorslee Lake
3 Common Sandpiper
(Andy Latham)

Nedge Hill
Swift
12 Wheatear
1 Whinchat
Lesser Whitethroat
2 Whitethroat
Blackcap
(Andy Latham)

2009
Priorslee Lake
1 Wheatear
(John Isherwood)

Nedge Hill
19 Wheatear
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Turtle Doves
(John Isherwood)

2008
Priorslee Lake
4 Great Crested Grebes
Sand Martins
Swallows
1 Tufted Duck
1 Sedge Warbler
4 Reed Warblers
1 Lesser Whitethroat
1 Common Whitethroat
3 Blackcaps
6 Chiffchaffs
1 Willow Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
2 Wheatear
1 Common Whitethroat
(Ed Wilson)

2007
Priorslee
3 Great Crested Grebes
1 Tufted Duck
1 Wheatear
1 Chiffchaff
1 Willow Tit
1 Willow Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

Nedge Hill
5 Wheatears
1 Whinchat
1 Sedge Warbler
Common Whitethroat
4 Linnets
(Ed Wilson)

Priorslee Flash
Swallows
1 Grey Wagtail
6 Blackcaps
6 Willow Warbler
(Ed Wilson)

2006
Priorslee Lake
7 Great Crested Grebes
4 Herons
4 Greylag Geese
4 Tufted Ducks
2 Ruddy Duck
2 Kestrels
2 Common Sandpipers
1 Skylark
23 Sand Martins
12 Swallows
29 Wrens
2 Sedge Warblers
2 Reed Warblers
11 Blackcaps
8 Chiffchaffs
2 Willow Warblers
2 Jays
7 Greenfinches
21 Redpolls
5 Reed Buntings.

Lanes
3 Whitethroats
2 Skylarks
3 Whitethroats
2 Blackcaps
1 Chiffchaff
4 Linnets
6 Yellowhammers
(Ed Wilson)