Author Archives: Val Jones

1 Mute Swan, two broods of large(x5) & small(x6) Mandarins with 14 in total including adults, 5 Oystercatchers, 14 LRPlovers & 4 Ringed Plovers.

An Osprey showed from 1125 but fairly quiet again otherwise with 4 Ringed Plovers and a Kingfisher the best. The first juvenile Black-headed Gull of the year may have been bred locally.

A quiet day with the only highlights being a Hobby in the morning and an Osprey in the afternoon.

Female Mandarin with six young Chapel Bay, 8 Tufteds, a drake Common Scoter in the afternoon, 58 Cormorants, a Little Egret, Peregrine with prey, 5 Oystercatchers, 2 Ringed & 7+ LRPlovers, 4 Common Terns & the Grasshopper Warbler singing occasionally … Continue reading →

Female Mandarin with chicks on Chapel Bay Tern raft, 8 Gadwall, 10 Tufteds, Osprey at 0935 & 1720, 5 Oystercatchers included the now flying first offspring off Chapel Bay Tern raft but the other chick has not been seen for … Continue reading →

62 Canada & 73+Greylag Geese, two female Mandarins with a brood of six small young Chapel Bay/west bank, 8 Gadwall, 13 Tufteds, 34 Cormorants, an Osprey at around midday with a fish appeared to land in Chapel Bay while a … Continue reading →

Female Mandarin with five large young at the south end, 2 Gadwall, both Oystercatcher chicks still surviving, 1 Ringed & 7 LRPlovers, 4 Common Terns, 1stS GBB & 2x2ndS Yellow-legged Gulls, Tawny Owl & c50 Swifts.

On a wet & windy morning 2 Mute Swans, 2 Gadwall, c10 Tufted Ducks, 33 Cormorants, Oystercatchers, Lapwing with four tiny chicks still in front of the Member’s Hide, 7 LRPlovers, 2 Dunlin, 4 Common Terns, 2ndS GBBGull, 2ndS Yellow-l-Gull, … Continue reading →

A Honey Buzzard flew west at 0915, possibly the same bird that was seen on 28 May. Another good raptor day with an Osprey for about 15 minutes at 1302, a Red Kite and a juvenile male Goshawk seen on … Continue reading →