10-4-19 Monthly Transect

Sparrowhawk x 2, common buzzard x 1, pheasant x 1, stock dove x 3, woodpigeon x 23, rose-ringed parakeet x 4, great spotted woodpecker x 3, skylark x 1, sand martin x 12, swallow x 6, house martin x 1, pied wagtail x 1, wren x 50, dunnock x 3, robin x 23, blackbird x 15, song thrush x 1, mistle thrush x 1, blackcap x 24, chiffchaff x 12, willow warbler x 1 (singing at Long Lake), goldcrest x 3, long-tailed tit x 9, blue tit x 32, great tit x 11, treecreeper x 3, magpie x 8, jackdaw x 5, rook x 10, carrion crow x 62 (including 52 in the sheep field), chaffinch x 6, goldfinch x 1, siskin x 1, reed bunting x 1 (singing in front of Slingsby Hide).

Also brambling x 2, little ringed plover x 1, ring ousel x 1 (called briefly close to horses’ field).

8-4-19

Little ringed plover x 2 (Tyler Hide), brambling x 5 (males and females seen between Tyler Hide and Slingsby Hide).

7-4-19

Little ringed plover x 4, reed bunting x 1 male (singing at Long Lake), blackcap x 10, chiffchaff x 3, brambling x 3 (Tyler Hide).

6-4-19

Brambling x 2 males (with chaffinch flock between bench and Tyler Hide).

5-4-19

Green sandpiper x 1 (Sutton Hide).

3-4-19

Great crested grebe x 26 (4 on West Lake, 1 on Snipe Bog Lake and 21 on East Lake), grey herons nests x 5 occupied (3 chicks visible on nest number 3), reed bunting female x 1 (Slingsby Hide).

1-4-19

Garden warbler x 1 (just off fishermen’s carpark).

31-3-19

Little ringed plover x 1 (Tyler Hide), sand martin x 40, swallow x 2 (Sutton Hide).

30-3-19

Little ringed plover x 1 (Tyler Hide), kingfisher x 1 (flew past Sutton Hide) + 1 other recorded later,

29-3-19

Great crested grebe x 23 (3 on West Lake and 20 on East Lake), grey heron nests x 5 occupied (North Lake), little grebe x 2 (near Clay Spit).