November 30th
Lea Farm GP – 7 Common Gull, 4 Herring Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker on feeder, Reed Bunting on feeders, 2 Nuthatch (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – Grey Wagtail flew across lake seen from Bittern hide, Kingfisher perched on reeds at lake’s edge seen from Teal hide, 3 Snipe, Nuthatch (Richard Marsh)
Sandford Lake – 2 Snipe (Richard Marsh)
White Swan Lake – 2 Chiffchaff the first foraging along west side of River Loddon 50 metres south of sluice the second seen singing strongly in trees between main reed bed and river, Treecreeper (Richard Marsh)
Great Spotted Woodpecker on the feeders at Lea Farm – Richard Marsh
Chiffchaff along the Loddon near White Swan Lake – Richard Marsh
November 29th
Lavell’s Lake – 8 Snipe, Nuthatch (Richard Marsh); Coal Tit on feeders (Peter Scudamore); Little Egret (Simon Bool)
Sandford Lake – 5 Snipe, 75+ Pochard (Richard Marsh)
White Swan Lake – Little Grebe (Steven Day)
November 28th
Redwood Lake – Chiffchaff with Tit flock (Richard Marsh)
November 27th
Lea Farm GP – 3 Common Gull, 6 Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 5 Snipe, Kingfisher, Pochard (Richard Marsh); 2 Cetti’s Warbler in the reeds at the Balancing Pool, Goldcrest near the Teal hide, Grey Wagtail feeding in the mud behind the new screens, Bullfinch female seen in tree near path to hide, 14 Redwing over the car park field (Bob Bennett)
Sandford Lake – Cetti’s Warbler foraging in front of hide, 8 Snipe, 60+ Pochard (Richard Marsh)
Grey Wagtail feeding at Lavell’s Lake – Richard Marsh
November 26th
Lea Farm GP – 5 Common Gull, Sparrowhawk flew past the feeders, 3 Snipe, 4 Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Buzzard seen circling and calling over the car park field (Michael Hubbard)
Sandford Lake – Chiffchaff by lay-by near bridges (Peter Scudamore)
November 25th
Lea Farm GP – 2 Common Gull (Geoff Emmett)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Common Crane over heading north then east (FJC)
4 Common Crane at Lavell’s Lake, probably the worst picture I’ve included but strangely one of the best! – FJC
November 24th
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher, 3 Snipe, 3 Bullfinch flew across path to hide (Richard Marsh); 36 Teal, 13 Shoveler, 4 Snipe, Little Egret, 5 Ring-necked Parakeet, Kingfisher (Marek Walford)
Sandford Lake – Chiffchaff on west side on other bank of stream (FJC)
November 23rd
Lavell’s Lake – Little Grebe, Kingfisher, Bar-headed Goose, Nuthatch, Bullfinch, Goldcrest, Fieldfare, 30 Redwing in the car park field (Nick Kightley)
November 22nd
Lea Farm GP – 2 Common Gull (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 8 Snipe first flew over me in the car park seven seen later from Bittern hide, Little Grebe on the Balancing Pool, Water Rail foraging at the lake’s edge right in front of Bittern hide, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Richard Marsh)
Sandford Lake – Chiffchaff by bridges (Peter Scudamore)
Black Swan Lake – 20 Lesser Black-backed Gull at least! (Richard Marsh)
White Swan Lake – Sparrowhawk (Richard Marsh)
Lesser Black-back Gull at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
Male Shoveler at Lavell’s Lake – Alan Travers
Red Kite at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
November 21st
Lavell’s Lake – Peregrine Falcon opposite Bittern hide (Geoff Emmett)
Male Peregrine Falcon at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
Male Peregrine Falcon at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
November 20th
Lea Farm GP – 5 Common Gull (Peter Scudamore)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher on post, Teal, Shoveler, 11 Lapwing (Peter Scudamore); 8 Bullfinch, 4 Little Grebe on the Balancing Pool, Sparrowhawk seen from Bittern hide (Richard Marsh)
Female Kingfisher on a post at Lavell’s Lake – Richard Marsh
November 18th
Lavell’s Lake – 7 Ring-necked Parakeets flying to roost (Geoff Emmett)
Sandford Lake – 2 Snipe, Kingfisher, 2 Water Rail heard (Richard Marsh)
November 17th
Lea Farm GP – Sparrowhawk flew past feeders (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – Barn Owl in entrance to the box, Green Sandpiper on Balancing Pool, 3 Little Grebe also on the Balancing Pool (Richard Marsh); Nuthatch (Geoff Emmett)
Sandford Lake – 5 Bullfinch 3 male and 2 females, Snipe, Kingfisher, Goldcrest male (Richard Marsh)
Black Swan Lake – 23 Pochard (Richard Marsh)
Nuthatch with seed at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
Green Sandpiper at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
November 16th
Black Swan Lake – 2 Shoveler males (Christine Jones)
November 15th
Lavell’s Lake – Water Rail at the back of the scraps, 250+ Starling flew from reeds in same area (Richard Marsh)
Sandford Lake – 5 Snipe, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail along the Loddon opposite concrete sluice (Richard Marsh)
November 14th
Lavell’s Lake – Snipe (Peter Scudamore)
November 13th
Lea Farm GP – 2 Common Gull (Geoff Emmett)
2 Common Gull on a pontoon at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
November 12th
Lea Farm GP – Kingfisher flew across the lake, 9 Common Gull, 4 Herring Gull, Sparrowhawk male just flew past the feeders, Little Egret just flown in (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Little Grebe on the Balancing Pool (Nick Kightley); Sparrowhawk flushed at least 12 Snipe from scrap then landed briefly, Bullfinch in bushes opposite Jerry’s bench (Richard Marsh); Buzzard spooking the Lapwings (David Dolan)
Middle Marsh – Goldcrest (Richard Marsh)
Buzzard at Lavell’s Lake – David Dolan
November 11th
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Little Grebe on the Balancing Pool, 4 Ring-necked Parakeet in the Bittern hide feeding area (Finley Hutchinson); 2 Barn Owl one in nearby Oak tree the other in box, 2 Water Rail heard near Teal hide and Bittern hide (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Sandford Lake – Cetti’s Warbler (Marek Walford)
Black Swan Lake – 3 Common Gull near coots bay (Finley Hutchinson)
Common but beautiful Male Mallard at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
Ring-necked Parakeet on the feeder at Lavell’s Lake – Finley Hutchenson
November 10th
Lea Farm GP – Green Sandpiper, 23 Shoveler (Renton Righelato); 2 Snipe, 5 Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull, Bar-headed Goose, 2 Nuthatch (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 41+ Snipe (Renton Righelato); 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker squabbling in tall poplar north of lake, 2 Bullfinch near Jerry’s bench (Richard Marsh); Green Sandpiper on the Balancing Pool (Brian Bennett)
Middle Marsh – Ferruginous Duck, 10+ Siskin (Renton Righelato)
Dinton (General) – 95 Wigeon a rather low count, 58 Shoveler, 1400 Black-headed Gull (Renton Righelato)
November 9th
Lavell’s Lake – 30+ Snipe, 4 Bullfinch, Nuthatch seen from Bittern hide, 5 Skylark seen from the car park field (Nick Kightley)
November 8th
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Little Grebe on the Balancing Pool, 30 Snipe, 2 Linnet over Balancing Pool towards farm building (Richard Marsh)
Black Swan Lake – 50+ Golden Plover flying south over the lake, 14 Pochard (Richard Marsh)
White Swan Lake – Little Grebe (Richard Marsh)
November 7th
Lea Farm GP – 4 Herring Gull, Common Gull, Nuthatch, Little Grebe (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Little Grebe on the Balancing Pool, 25 Snipe Little Egret (Anne Cronin); Bittern flying across behind the bund into the reeds (Andy Wears)
White Swan Lake – Ferruginous Duck, Common Gull (Richard Marsh)
Middle Marsh – Ferruginous Duck (Anne Cronin)
Redwood Lake – Common Gull, Herring Gull (Richard Marsh)
Common Gull at White Swan Lake – Richard Marsh
Ferruginous Duck at White Swan Lake – David Hampton
November 6th
Lavell’s Lake – Tawny Owl flying low over the Teal scrape, 6 Goldcrest, 15 Redwing a small flock flying over and 2-3 feeding on berries, Reed Bunting, 2 Bullfinch, 4 Greenfinch, Fieldfare (Tim Alexander); Nuthatch caught preening (Alan Travers); 20+ Snipe on scrape, 2 Bullfinch seen from path to Bittern hide (Andy Wears)
Preening Nuthatch at Lavell’s Lake – Alan Travers
A volley of Snipe at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
November 5th
Lavell’s Lake – Treecreeper (Richard Marsh)
Sandford Lake – Ferruginous duck, 2 Goldcrest (Anne Cronin); Treecreeper, Common Gull, Bar-headed Goose (Richard Marsh)
Black Swan Lake – 2 Little Grebe (Anne Cronin)
White Swan Lake – Little Grebe (Richard Marsh)
Middle Marsh – Ferruginous Duck (Richard Marsh)
Heron with lunch (Tench?) at Lavell’s Lake – Ida Groot-Attias
Male Teal at Lavell’s Lake – Ida Groot-Attias
Treecreeper at Lavell’s Lake – Ida Groot-Attias
November 4th
Sandford Lake – Chiffchaff on the west side, 9 Pochard, Merlin came in from north very fast at about 300ft circled towards west side then off west never losing speed or height (FJC); Scaup female (Geoff Emmett)
Female Scaup at Sandford Lake – Geoff Emmett
November 3rd
Sandford Lake – Chiffchaff near fisherman’s car park (Richard Marsh); Ferruginous Duck (Joseph Taylor)
November 2nd
Lea Farm GP – 2 Kingfisher, Blackcap male near the feeders (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Ring-necked Parakeet, Water Rail seen briefly in reeds around scrape, 23 Snipe around Bittern hide scrap, Barn Owl in the entrance to the box, Bullfinch near Jerry’s bench, Herring Gull adult (Richard Marsh)
Sandford Lake – Yellow-browed Warbler still near the yellow gate (Marek Walford)
White Swan Lake – Little Grebe near path reed bed end (Michael Hubbard)
Middle Marsh – Ferruginous Duck, Kingfisher (Richard Marsh)
Male Blackcap at Lea Farm – Richard Marsh
Yellow-browed Warbler at Sandford Lake – Gavin Turner
Yellow-browed Warbler at Sandford Lake – Geoff Emmett
November 1st
Lavell’s Lake – Grey Phalarope seen from Bittern hide (Stephen Day)
Sandford Lake – Yellow-browed Warbler still present in the Willow Tree near yellow gate (Brian Bennett)
Middle Marsh – Ferruginous Duck (Phillip Mannion)
Grey Phalarope at Lavell’s Lake – Stephen Day
