15-2-2017 Monthly transect

Pheasant x 1 male (wild garden space), stock dove x 1, woodpigeon x 6, rose-ringed parakeet x 4, kingfisher x 2 (1 on West Lake and 1 on North Lake), green woodpecker x 1,  great-spotted woodpecker x 3, grey wagtail x 1 (singing at the South western corner of the West Lake), pied wagtail x 2, wren x 16, dunnock x 11, robin x 39, blackbird x 20,  song thrush x 6, redwing x 6,

goldcrest x 13, long-tailed tit x 32, coal tit x 1 (singing by cross roads, North Lake), blue tit x 30, great tit x 20, treecreeper x 2,

jay x 8, jackdaw x 11, carrion crow x 17 (of which 15 were in the sheep field), chaffinch x 12, goldfinch x 3,

siskin x 23 (in small flocks), bullfinch x 1 (calling West Lake), reed bunting x 1 male (calling at Long Lake).

14-2-2017

Great-crested grebe pair displaying on the East Lake.

13-2-2017

Water rail x 1 (on route to Tyler Hide)

12-2-2017 including Webs count

Mute swan x 2, greylag goose x 2, Canada goose x 44, Egyptian goose x 2, little egret x 3, cormorant x 12, grey heron x 4, little grebe x 6, great-crested grebe x 24, moorhen x 19, coot x 110, lapwing x 200, common snipe x 5, water rail x 2 (one on Snipe Bog Lake and on heard from Slingsby Hide), teal x 51, gadwall x 27, shoveler 19, pochard x 6, mallard x 58, tufted duck x 110,

Mandarin duck x 1 male and 1 female, black-headed gull x 43, common gull x 3, herring gull x 24, great black-backed gull x 2.

Plus sparrowhawk x 2, rose ringed parakeet x 11, grey wagtail x 1, chiffchaff x 1, song thrush x 3, siskin x 4, reed bunting x 2 (Long Lake), jay x 10.

11-2-2017

water rail x 1 (from Willow Hide), chiffchaff x 2, treecreeper x 2, redwing x 8, fieldfare x 5, little egret x 1, grey heron x 1 (standing on nest), siskin x 50.

10-2-2017

Bullfinch x 1 male (feeding on the ground by bench down the main track past Willow Hide), redwing x 50 (feeding on the ground in the horses field just near the gate into the reserve), siskin x 30, common snipe x 5 (Tyler Hide).