Latest sightings
Wildlife sightings for 27th April 2014
1 Hobby - over sheltered lagoon 8 Redshank - scrape and main lake 3 Little Ringed Plover - including a pair mating on the scrape 1 Snipe - marsh 2 Common Tern - main lake 1 Yellow Wagtail - heard calling near the Peacock Tower 2 Garden Warbler - sheltered
27 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 26th April 2014
1 Shelduck - main lake 3 Common Tern - main lake 1 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape 1 Grasshopper Warbler - reedbed filters 2 Garden Warbler - near Sand Martin bank, on L.H.S as you approach Peacock tower 1 Whitethroat - sheltered lagoon near wader sc
26 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 25 April 2014
2 Shelduck - main lake 3 Common Tern - main lake 3 Little Ringed plover - wader scrape 5 Snipe - grazing marsh 26 Swallow - main lake, grazing marsh 1 Garden Warbler - South route feeders 2 Whitethroat - in scrub around sand martin bank, sheltered lagoon
25 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 24th April 2014
1 Nightingale - singing from Hawthorn/Willow scrub along the sheltered lagoon southern loop footpath a.m. 3 Common Tern - main lake 1 Common Sandpiper - main lake 1 Yellow Wagtail - flew over scrape towards main lake a.m. 4 Chiffchaff - wildside and s
24 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 23rd April 2014
5 Common Tern - main lake 3 Sandwich Tern - flew down river@ 07.30hrs 1 Common Sandpiper - wader scrape 1 Green Sandpiper - grazing marsh 2 Little Ringed Plover - a pair on the wader scrape 1 Lapwing chick - main lake 'gull ridge' 2 Yellow Wagtail - one o
23 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 22nd April 2014
5 Common Tern - 1 Greenshank - grazing marsh 1 Dunlin - main lake 3 Green Sandpiper - grazing marsh 2 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape 2 Common Sandpiper - main lake 2 Whimbrel - flew over N @ 09.05hrs 20 Yellow Wagtail - grazing marsh 3 Blue Headed
22 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 21st April 2014
1 Yellow Wagtail - flying around marsh/reedbed calling 1 Dunlin (alpina race) - marsh 2 Little Ringed Plover - marsh, scrape 2 Green Sandpiper - marsh 1 Greenshank - marsh, feeding all morning and being chased by Lapwings 8 Snipe - marsh 2 Common Sandp
21 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 20th April 2014
3 Common Tern - main lake 1 Bar-tailed Godwit - scrape (left the site at 0720hrs) 3 Little Ringed Plover - marsh, scrape 2 Green Sandpiper - marsh 1 Grey Plover - flew over from the E, then off downriver (1015hrs) 13 Snipe - marsh 1 Jack Snipe - marsh
20 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 19th April 2014
1 Peregrine 1 Shelduck - main lake 1 Common Tern - main lake 1 Greenshank - wader scrape 1 Little Ringed Plover - grazing marsh 2 Green Sandpiper - grazing marsh, wader scrape 1 Common Sandpiper - main lake 8 Redshank - wader scrape, grazing marsh 1 Yel
19 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 18th April 2014
5 Common Tern - main lake 3 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape, grazing marsh 2 Common Sandpiper - main lake 2 Green Sandpiper - grazing marsh 7 Snipe - grazing marsh 6 Yellow Wagtail - grazing marsh 50 Sand Martin - main lake, grazing marsh, wader s
18 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 17th April 2014
1 Little Egret - circled over site then flew down river 1 Marsh Harrier - over main lake, mobbed by crows and flew E 2 Common Tern - main lake 3 Little Ringed Plover - marsh, scrape 2 Green Sandpiper - marsh 5 Snipe - marsh 1 Wheatear - wader scrape islan
17 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 16th April 2014
1 Shelduck - scrape 3 Little Ringed Plover - marsh, scrape 6 Green Sandpiper - marsh 7 Snipe - marsh, scrape 6 Redshank - scrape and marsh 1 Wheatear - Thames bank 1 Reed Warbler 6 Cetti's Warbler - all singing April bird highlights: Buzzar
16 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 15th April 2014
2 Common Tern - mating on main lake island 1 Whimbrel - on wader scrape before flying off NE 3 Little Ringed Plover - grazing marsh, wader scrape 1 Green Sandpiper - grazing marsh 6 Snipe - grazing marsh 8 Redshank - wader scrape, grazing marsh c.20 Sand
15 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 14th April 2014
1 Shelduck - scrape 2 Snipe - marsh 1 leucistic Herring Gull - a very bright white gull which had us looking through the books. Flew off towards the river. 1 Wheatear - marsh, perched on sluice near Peacock Tower c. 20 Sand Martin - mating and collecting
14 April 2014
Wildlife sightings for 13th April 2014
1 Common Tern - main lake 1 Little Ringed Plover - marsh 7 Redshank - scrape, marsh 1 Black-tailed Godwit - marsh 1 Green Sandpiper - scrape 1 Yellow Wagtail - scrape 5 Wheatear - marsh 1 Willow Warbler - south route April bird highlights: Buzzard
13 April 2014