Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Saturday, July 21, 2018,
2:00PM - 4:00PM - 2 dunlins, coots, shelduck, mallards, tufted ducks, common terns including chicks, black-headed gulls including chicks, great black-backed gull, cormorants, grey heron, Canada geese, great crested grebes, linnets, pied wagtails and starlings.
Dunlin
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Tuesday, April 3, 2018,
1:30PM - 3:30PM - Birds seen were a kingfisher, green woodpeckers, skylarks, meadow pipits, reed buntings, kestrel, buzzard, red kite, mallards, tufted duck, moorhens, coots, Canada geese, lapwings, redwings, blackbirds, blackcap, blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, pheasant and goldfinches. Song thrush and chiffchaffs were heard.
Green Woodpecker
Kestrel
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Thursday, August 24, 2017,
10:00AM - 1:00PM - 1 sanderling, 5+ dunlin, 4 black-tailed godwits, 3 greenshanks, 4 common sandpipers, 10+ ringed plovers, 2 yellow wagtails, c20 pied wagtails, 50+ coots, 50+ great crested grebes, 50+ tufted ducks, 20+ mallards, 50+ Canada geese, c5 cormorants, 50+ black-headed gulls, 1 kestrel, 1 starling and 20+ common terns.
Black-tailed Godwit and Black-headed Gull
Yellow Wagtails
Waders including Sanderling, Dunlin and Ringed Plover
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Friday, July 7, 2017,
Birds seen: common snipe, jack snipe, redshank, little egret, grey heron, green woodpecker, kestrel, wigeon, shoveler, mallard, lapwing, teal, tits, blackcap, shelduck, coot, moorhen and more
Kestrel
Snipe
Redshank
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Saturday, January 21, 2017,
11:30AM - 3:30PM - 1
firecrest, 6 goldcrests, c15 robins, 4 great tits, 3 blue tits, 2 mute swans, c10 coots, 1 great crested grebe, c15 black-headed gulls, 4 stonechats and 4 blackbirds.
Male Firecrest
Goldcrest
Coot on the frozen pond
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Sunday, December 4, 2016,
12:45PM - 3:00PM - 5 redpolls, c100 redwings, 2 fieldfares, c10 blackbirds, 1 song thrush, 30+ tufted ducks, 6 shovelers, 10 pochards, 30+ coots, c20 mallards, 3 cormorants, 3 grey herons, 1 kingfisher (flew past with fish in beak), 2 coal tits, 3 blue tits, 1 great tit, 3 robins, 3 pied wagtails and 1 jay. Sadly I missed the long-tailed duck - it was seen the day before and the day after!
One of many Redwings
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Saturday, August 6, 2016,
10:00AM - 12:45PM - 1 oystercatcher, c15 common terns, 50+ black-headed gulls, 30+ great crested grebes, 100+ tufted ducks, 100+ coots, c10 linnets, c15 pied wagtails, 2 lapwings, 50+ mallards, 8 cormorants, 30+ Canada geese, 2 Egyptian geese and 1 grey heron. I didn't see the black-necked grebes :(
Terns, gulls and duck with chicks and eggs on the tern raft
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Thursday, June 2, 2016,
10:30AM - 3:00PM - 4 shelducks, 10+ lapwings, 1 little grebe, 3 great crested grebes, 1 peregrine falcon, 3 reed warblers, 2 reed buntings, 1 blackcap, 1 green woodpecker, 20+ mallards, 30+ tufted ducks, 10+ pochards, 20+ coots, 15+ moorhens, 30+ black-headed gulls, 30+ herrings gulls, 4 ring-necked parakeets, 3 grey herons, 2 cormorants, 50+ sand martins, 100+ swifts, 2 Egyptian geese, 5 Canada geese, 7 mute swans, 4 gadwalls, 3 mandarins, c5 coal tits, 3 blue tits, 4 great tits, 2 robins, 3...
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Sunday, February 7, 2016,
Beddington Farmlands - 11:00AM - 1:00PM - 1 shelduck (drake), 8 shovelers, 6 teals, 10 mallards, 15+ coots, 5 moorhens, 5 redwings, 10+ grey herons, 5+ lesser black-backed gulls, 50+ black-headed gulls, 3 herring gulls, 15+ lapwings, 4 great tits, 3 blue tits and 1 mute swan. Other wildlife include a fox.
Shelduck and Gulls
2:00PM - Ate a burger at Ockham Bites. Watched
blue tits, robins, goldcrests, chaffinches and dunnocks in the trees.
Dunnock
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Saturday, December 26, 2015,
12:15PM - 14:00PM - 1 pintail, 15 wigeon, 2 goldeneyes, 200+ tufted ducks, 100+ pochards, 6 gadwalls, 7 Canada geese, 40+ coots, 40+ mallards, 10+ black-headed gulls, 4 pied wagtails, 15+ starlings and 1 cormorant.
Picture taken through scope of a drake pintail, north basin.
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Sunday, November 15, 2015,
10:15AM - 12:15PM - 1
great grey shrike, 1 red kite, 2 great spotted woodpeckers, 4 meadow pipits, 10 coots, 3 tufted ducks, 3 great crested grebes, 10+ black-headed gulls, 1 wren, 5+ blue tits and 10+ long-tailed tits.
Great Grey Shrike
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Friday, October 30, 2015,
11:00AM - 16:30PM - 1 grey wagtail, 35 lapwings, 25+ shovelers, 30+ wigeon, 20+ teals, 2 pochards, 10 gadwalls, 10 ring-necked parakeets, 1 green woodpecker, 30+ tufted ducks, 25+ mallards, 5 mute swans, 25+ coots, 40+ moorhens, 6 Egyptian geese, 5 Canada geese, 3 greylag geese, 30+ herring gulls, 10 lesser black-backed gulls, 35+ black-headed gulls, 3 blue tits, 5 long-tailed tits, 15+ cormorants, 8 grey herons and 3 robins. Apparently there was 18 common snipe today and I didn't see any - m...
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Sunday, April 19, 2015,
11:30AM - 14:00PM - 4 whitethroats, 6 linnets, 6 skylarks, 4 reed buntings, 1 sedge warbler, 1 blackcap, 1 kestrel, 1 mistle thrush, 1 jay, 6 chaffinches, 2 goldfinches, 15+ blue tits, 15+ great tits, 6 mallards, 1 mute swan, 2 wrens, 1 robin, 2 blackbirds, 3 cormorants and 1 coot. Many pheasants could be heard.
Male whitethroat
Male linnet
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Saturday, November 29, 2014,
10:45AM - 13:00PM - 500+ golden plovers, 1 dunlin, 10 meadow pipits, 1 whinchat, 2 stonechats, 1 shoveler, 4 teals, 6 mallards, 20 tufted ducks, 50+ black-headed gulls, 50+ herring gulls, 50+ common gulls, 2 grey herons, 15 coots, 3 cormorants, 2 jays, 1 dunnock, 6 long-tailed tits, 6 blue tits, 4 great tits, 7 goldfinches, 1 chaffinch, 3 robins and 7 blackbirds. There were also 3 roe deer.
Meadow Pipit (Looking the other way)
Tags to be added later: deer great robins blackbirds
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Saturday, November 29, 2014,
9:00AM - 10:20AM - 5 black-necked grebes, 1 red-breasted merganser, 1 great northern diver, 3 goldeneyes, 30+ wigeon, 9 gadwalls, 50+ tufted ducks, 15 great crested grebes, 2 little grebes, 50+ coots, 30+ lapwings, 4 mute swans, 3 cormorants, 30+ black-headed gulls, 10 pied wagtails and 20+ starlings.
Wigeon (Female left and Drake right)
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Friday, October 31, 2014,
10:00AM - 13:00PM - 3 goldcrests, 1 buzzard, 1 kingfisher, 8 black-headed gulls, 1 cormorant, 2 great crested grebes, 4 coots, 1 mallard, 3 robins, 3 great tits and 4 blue tits.
Comorant and 2 black-headed gulls
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Sunday, October 5, 2014,
9:30AM - 11:30AM - 7 kingfishers, 50+ tufted ducks, 7 mallards, 1 pochard, 20 coots, 2 moorhens, 9 great crested grebes, 4 ring-necked parakeets, 5 great tits, 2 goldcrests, 1 nuthatch, 2 wrens, 3 long-tailed tits, 2 shovelers, 3 cormorants, 1 grey heron, 7 mute swans, 2 siskins and 4 robins.
Tufted ducks
Pochard and coot
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Wednesday, September 3, 2014,
9:30AM - 12:30PM - 1 green sandpiper, 5 reed buntings, 2 barn owls, 30+ lapwings, 4 little grebes, 6 great crested grebes, 5 teals, 10 mallards, 7 gadwalls, 20+ tufted ducks, 40+ coots, 15 moorhens, 7 goldfinches, 3 robins, 4 blue tits, 3 great tits, 1 grey heron, 5 mute swans, 7 Canada geese and 1 green woodpecker.
Green Sandpiper
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Tuesday, August 5, 2014,
9:30AM - 11:30AM - 1 Dartford warbler, 1 hobby, 1 kestrel, 10 stonechats including young, 2 whitethroats, 2 willow warblers, 1 green woodpecker, 6 goldfinches, 20 blue tits, 4 great tits and 1 coot. Goldcrest could also be heard. Many butterflies including gatekeeper, small copper and meadow brown. Mammals included 2 muntjac deer and a roe deer.
A distant male Stonechat
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Friday, February 21, 2014,
11:30AM - 4:30PM - 4 gadwalls, 23 shovelers, 30+ mallards, 10 teals, 20+ wigeon, 50+ moorhens, 35+ coots, 16 lapwings, 8 canada geese, 4 egyptian geese, 7 mute swans, 20 cormorants, 10 grey herons, 35+ tufted ducks, 3 pochards, 3 chaffinches, 3 blue tits, 3 great tits, 7 long-tailed tits, 5 robins, 1 dunnock, 5 blackbirds, 6 ring-necked parakeets, 1 peregrine falcon, 2 great-crested grebes, 4 little grebes, 10+ herring gulls and 15+ black-headed gulls.
According to the WWT website, there was a...
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Saturday, January 18, 2014,
12:45PM - 2:15PM - 15+ blue tits, 15+ great tits, 2 coal tits, 4 long-tailed tits, 1 wren, 12 robins, 1 redwing, 15+ blackbirds, 1 treecreeper, 2 jays, 3 gadwalls, 10+ teals, 30+ coots, 20+ tufted ducks, 2 cormorants and 1 egyptian goose.
I could also hear goldcrests and carrion crows.
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Friday, January 3, 2014,
10:30AM - 12:20PM, 30+ coots, 25+ tufted ducks, 6 gadwalls, 5 goldeneyes, 20 wigeon, 3 common scoters, 4 great crested grebes, 2 little grebes, 1 black-necked grebe, 3 cormorants and 5 black-headed gulls.
Grazing Wigeon
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Posted by Thomas Mark Banks on Sunday, November 10, 2013,
2PM - 4PM, 2 blue tits, 7 great tits, 7 Long-tailed tits, 10 goldfinches, 3 robins, 7 blackbirds, 40+ herring gulls, 5 lesser black-backed gulls, 3 grey herons, 13 mallards, 14 tufted ducks, 5 gadwalls, 6 teals, 17 lapwings, 1 song thrush, 20 cormorants, 20+ coots, 5 moorhens, 4 mute swans and 10 black-headed gulls.
14 Cormorants (roosting) at Spynes Mere
Lapwings and Gulls at Spynes Mere
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