September 30th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper in the south west corner (Tim James)
Lavell’s Lake – 43 Redpoll over Bittern hide, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet in dead tree near hide (Paul Bright-Thomas); 3 Snipe, Teal (Chris Jones)
September 29th
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Stonechat in the long grass beyond the north east corner, 3 Green Sandpiper, 50+ Meadow Pipit around Landfill in one spread out flock, 7 Skylark, 6 Wigeon, 2 Mistle Thrush at the far side of the Landfill, Reed Warbler in sedge in front of hide then in reeds to left (FJC); Lesser Blacked-backed Gull (Geoff Emmett)
Lavell’s Lake – 15+ Redpoll east over Bittern hide scrape (Paul Bright-Thomas); Water Rail juvenile, 3 Snipe, 40+ Teal (Anne Cronin)
Lesser Black-backed Gull at Lea Farm Lake – Geoff Emmett
September 28th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Stonechat, Wheatear, Green Sandpiper, Lesser Blacked-backed Gull, 10+ Meadow Pipit (Richard Marsh); Snipe, 5 Stonechat, Whinchat, Sparrowhawk, Cetti’s Warbler, Swallow (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Mary Jacobs)
September 27th
Lea Farm Lake – 7 Stonechat, Whinchat, Wheatear, 10+ Meadow Pipit all around the dug depression by the long grass in the north east corner (FJC); Green Sandpiper, Sparrowhawk, 20+ House Martin, 5+ Swallow (Richard Marsh); 50+ Meadow Pipit on east side (Renton Righelato); Raven over the Landfill (Geoff Emmett)
Lavell’s Lake – Snipe, Nuthatch, 40+ House Martin (Richard Marsh); 2 Snipe, Lapwing, Bar-headed Goose with Canadas, Kingfisher flew over the lake several times (Sally Bryson-Bond)
Raven over the Landfill at Lea Farm Lake – Geoff Emmett
September 26th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Dunlin in the south west corner, 2 Raven north north west over landfill behind Lodge Wood, 25+ Ring-necked Parakeets coming away from DP roost, 30+ Meadow Pipit over the Landfill, 19 Teal, 2 Mandarin Duck over low heading north (FJC); Wheatear in the north east corner (Renton Righelato)
Lavell’s Lake – 70+ House Martin feeding over lake with just 1-2 Swallow in the group , 5 Chiffchaff calling from various locations along Loddon to the car park field (FJC)
Black Swan Lake – 20+ House Martin near the Activity Centre (Anne Cronin)
Dunlin on the mud at Lea Farm Lake – FJC
September 25th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Grey Wagtail (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – Chiffchaff, Treecreeper both with a large flock of Tits just south of the Green Bridge, 30+ House Martin circling around lake (Richard Marsh)
September 24th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, 40+ House Martin (Tim James)
Lavell’s Lake – Snipe, 22 Teal, Kingfisher (Peter Scudamore)
Black Swan Lake – 3 House Martin near the Activity Centre (Anne Cronin)
September 23rd
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Snipe in front of the hide, 39 Teal in the south west corner, 2 Green Sandpiper, Stonechat female or juvenile on the pegs on the east side (FJC)
Snipe on the mud at Lea Farm Lake – FJC
September 22nd
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Snipe in front of the hide, Reed Warbler (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Snipe, Little Egret (Geoff Emmett)
Feeding Snipe at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
September 21st
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret over heading towards Lodge Wood (Geoff Emmett)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Snipe (Anne Cronin); Raven over Lavell’s mobbed by Crows and Jackdaws this morning, 33 Shoveler, 26 Gadwall, 6 Wigeon, 9 Teal (Renton Righelato)
September 20th
Lea Farm Lake – 50 Mallard the lake has become a roost site, 28 Teal, 6 Ring-necked Parakeet north from roost at Dinton (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – 50 House Martin between here and Sandford, 2 Mistle Thrush south along the Loddon then east across Lavell’s, 6 Meadow Pipit heading north, Siskin heard over (FJC)
Sandford Lake – Wimbrel surprise of the morning when a bird called very close to me as I looked out of the hide did not see or hear it again, 12 Wigeon (FJC)
September 19th
Lea Farm Lake – Merlin through south presumed female, 2 Raven over Lodge Wood heading north, Mistle Thrush heading south, 20+ Goldfinch (FJC); Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Kingfisher heading downstream near Green Bridge, Raven very low south east over car park field, 4 Meadow Pipit heading north, 5 Swallow over heading south east (FJC); 2 Snipe, Nuthatch (Richard Marsh); 2 Kingfisher on the ‘No Fishing’ sign (Steve Beasant)
September 18th
Lea Farm Lake – 37 Teal 36 females with a single drake in eclipse (Geoff Emmett)
Lavell’s Lake – Raven juvenile on the Tern scrape, Kingfisher (Geoff Emmett)
Juvenile Raven at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
Drake Teal in Eclipse at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
Kingfisher at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
September 17th
Lea Farm Lake – 33 Teal, 4 Wigeon, Green Sandpiper (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – 7 Teal on Tern Scrape (FJC); Snipe flew from reeds towards Lea Farm (Tim James); Cetti’s Warbler (Warren Foster)
September 16th
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Green Sandpiper, Raven over, Little Egret, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Common Sandpiper flew to the island, Snipe (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper, Snipe (Tim James); 20+ Teal (Anne Cronin); Water Rail juvenile in reed at the rear of the scrape (Stephen Power)
Sandford Lake – 3 Pochard (Brian Bennett)
Juvenile Water Rail and Snipe at Lavell’s Lake – Stephen Power
Snipe at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
Juvenile Wren at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
Green Sandpiper at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
September 15th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Little Egret over heading south, Tree Pipit possible heard call once, Common Sandpiper just flew out of the south west corner, Snipe over south, 10+ Meadow Pipit heading south west, 50+ Hirundines over high heading south (FJC)
2 Red Kites at Lea Farm – Lodge Wood – Geoff Emmett
September 13th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Raven over heading south east, 20 Meadow Pipit staying around landfill, 2 Grey Wagtail, 19 Teal (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Hobby, Cetti’s Warbler (Peter Scudamore)
Sandford Lake – 10+ Shoveler, Kingfisher, Wigeon, 2+ Chiffchaff calling and singing (Peter Scudamore)
September 12th
Lea Farm Lake – 50 Shoveler, 5 Green Sandpiper 4 seen in south west corner probably a 5th along east shore calling, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Egret heading south, 2 Meadow Pipit (FJC); 10+ Mandarin Duck erupted as I was passing, 4 Great White Egret over towards Sandford (Neil Edwards)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Water Rail heard calling in Teal Scrape as I walked along Loddon (FJC); Kingfisher (David Tipping); Little Grebe (Keith Seymour)
Sandford Lake – 18 Shoveler (FJC)
Kingfisher at Lavell’s Lake – David Tipping
September 11th
Lea Farm Lake – 45 Shoveler, Wheatear on pegs around long grass (FJC); 2 Snipe in the south west corner, Green Woodpecker (Geoff Emmett)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher, Little Grebe (Caroline Moore)
Sandford Lake – Great White Egret beside islands (Tim James); 3 Great White Egret flew over heading south (Brian Bennett)
2 Snipe at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
Great White Egret over at Sandford Lake – Geoff Emmett
Great White Egret taking off at Sandford Lake – Geoff Emmett
September 10th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Common Sandpiper, Pintail female flew round 3 times then dropped behind shingle island then swam out with the Shovelers, 65+ Meadow Pipit in groups of 3 to 9 heading west north west and north north west in over 2 hours these are just the ones coming over my head, 2 Raven tumbling at about 800ft then drifted west, 40+ Swallow probably more heading south east (FJC); Green Sandpiper in the south west corner, Common Sandpiper juvenile on island, Sedge Warbler in front of hide (Trevor Guyatt); Little Grebe (Richard Marsh)
Lavell’s Lake – Reed Warbler in front of Jerry’s bench (Alan Rymer)
Sandford Lake – Pintail female around the smaller islands (Brian Bennett)
Female Pintail at Sandford Lake – Roger Stansfield
Little Grebe at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
Common Sandpiper at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
September 9th
Lea Farm Lake – 27 Shoveler, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Stonechat on a peg on the landfill (FJC); Reed Warbler (Geoff Emmett)
Heron’s Water – 2 Kingfisher (Steve Lynch)
Male Stonechat at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
Jay with an acorn at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
September 8th
Lea Farm Lake – 23 Shoveler, 2 Green Sandpiper flew in, Wigeon flew in as well, Ringed Plover flying around high above lake, 2 Wheatear on recently dug long grass area the right hand one as you look from Ron’s hide although very distant (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Snipe on edge of bund in scrape (Peter Scudamore)
Sandford Lake – 5 Wigeon drakes in eclipse, Teal (Paul Bright-Thomas)
September 7th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Common Sandpiper flying over the lake, Hobby over heading south, 3 Meadow Pipit one east and dropped two north 2 minutes later, 2 Whinchat on the hedgerows within the private landfill area moving west towards the north end of Lodge Wood Lake, Yellow Wagtail heard over, 2 Mandarin Duck in the south west corner, Greenshank on the east shore 06:25, sat quietly for about 5 mins then started calling flew to south spit then off over Lavell’s calling (FJC); Grey Wagtail (Ida Groot-Attias)
Lavell’s Lake – Reed Warbler, Kingfisher (Geoff Emmett); Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Cetti’s Warbler, Little Egret (Ida Groot-Attias)
Sandford Lake – 6 Wigeon drakes in eclipse (Roger Stansfield)
Mortimer’s Meadow – Hobby adult hunting (Roger Stansfield)
Cetti’s Warbler at Lavell’s Lake – Ida Groot-Attias
September 6th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Peregrine over heading south east, 3 Reed Warbler, 7 Yellow Wagtail heading south along the Loddon, 3 probable Tree Pipit rising off the bushes at the back of the car park field and heading to the old golf course 2 dropped into trees along the Emm Brook but not relocated, 1 flew West later (FJC); Kingfisher (Stephen Power)
Black Swan Lake – 10 House Martin, 10 Swallow (FJC)
Reed Warbler at Lavell’s Lake – Andrew Cook
Kingfisher at Lavell’s Lake – Stephen Power
September 5th
Lavell’s Lake – Redstart male flew from central compound to brambles on west side of car park field near pylon, 2 Whitethroat, 12 Blackcap minimum count, 5 Chiffchaff in Blackthorn behind the lake (FJC); Kingfisher (Steve Beasant); Bar-headed Goose (Tony Ward); Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler (Steve Rogers)
September 4th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (FJC); Hobby over landfill (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Cetti’s Warbler in reeds left of path to Bittern, Common Sandpiper on Bund (Nick Kightley)
September 3rd
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail to the right of the hide (Ida Groot-Attias); 2 Common Sandpiper (Geoff Emmett)
Lavell’s Lake – Little Grebe on the scrape (Tim James)
Common Sandpiper at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
Little Grebe at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
September 2nd
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpiper (Brian Bennett)
Lavell’s Lake – Little Grebe on the Balancing Pool (Caroline Moore); Cetti’s Warbler (Geoff Emmett)
Sandford Lake – Wigeon drake in eclipse (Roger Stansfield)
Drake Wigeon in eclipse at Sandford Lake – Roger Stansfield
Little Grebe at Lavell’s Lake – Caroline Moore
September 1st
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 21 Teal, 5 Shoveler (Brian Bennett); Whinchat on the landfill (Geoff Emmett)
Sandford Lake – Spotted Flycatcher on dead Alder (Alan Rymer); Wigeon drake in eclipse (Lynn Mann)
Red Kite at Lea Farm – Geoff Emmett
