August 31st
Lea Farm Lake – Reed Warbler in front of Ron’s hide, 14 Lapwing in the south west corner (Pete Lunn)
Landfill Viewing Point – Whinchat on closest vent then flew to hedgerow (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Redstart calling inside top hedge but not seen (Paul Bright-Thomas); 2 Whitethroat, Willow Warbler (FJC)
Sandford Lake – Common Sandpiper on spit viewed from west end (Paul Bright-Thomas); Kingfisher flew right to left with something in its mouth viewed from the bench (Sandy Millin); Green Sandpiper, Barnacle Goose, 2 Kingfisher pinging about (Paul Etherton)
White Swan Lake – Cetti’s Warbler towards the Loddon path, Kingfisher along the Loddon path opposite Heron’s Water (Pete Lunn)
August 30th
Lea Farm Lake – Kingfisher flew towards Renton’s screen (Steve Clarke); Green Sandpiper from Renton’s screen towards Ron’s hide (Philip Giles)
Sandford Lake – Common Sandpiper (Steve Clarke)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 3 Spotted Flycatcher three together showing really well in the centre of the Meadow likely a 4th present, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, 6+ Whitethroat (Dave Rimes)
Spotted Flycatcher in Mortimer’s Meadow – Roger Stansfield
August 29th
Lea Farm Lake – Reed Warbler in front of Ron’s hide (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Redstart female (Jim Reid)
August 28th
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 25 Blackcap 15+ at first then a mobile Tit flock added a minimum of 10 more, Lesser Whitethroat, Nuthatch, 2+ Chiffchaff all birds constantly moving (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 9 Shoveler, 9 Teal, Green Sandpiper (FJC)
August 27th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper in front of Renton’s screen (Alan Jackman)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher flew in front of Teal hide (Alan Jackman)
Landfill Viewing Point – Whimbrel calling east south east to west south west at around 150ft, Spotted Flycatcher to the right of the old Oak behind the ‘landfill hedgerow’ perched on Hawthorn for about 2 minutes or so, Whitethroat on the landfill hedgerow, 4+ Blackcap, 45+ House Martin over southern end of Lea Farm Lake (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Whitethroat (FJC)
Mortimer’s Meadow – Spotted Flycatcher in the central hedge, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler (Dave Rimes)
Spotted Flycatcher in Mortimer’s Meadow – Dave Rimes
August 25th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper flew off calling in direction of Lavell’s, Common Sandpiper on newly dug island (Steve Clarke); 2 Green Sandpiper, Whinchat on fence line, Wheatear possible on landfill distorted by distance and haze (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher darting around the posts and lake (Daniel Ellerby); Snipe showing well on bund (Philip Giles)
Landfill Viewing Point – Hobby fast and low south east over the landfill (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat under big Hawthorn tree (FJC); 3+ Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – 2 Kingfisher adult and juvenile perched for 10 mins on north side viewed from hide, Wigeon, 5 Shoveler, 8 Teal (FJC)
Black Swan Lake – 4 Grey Wagtail around left hand jetty (FJC)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 12+ Blackcap, 6+ Whitethroat, 2+ Willow Warbler, 4+ Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, Nuthatch (Dave Rimes)
Snipe on the Bund at Lavell’s Lake – Philip Giles
August 24th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper on south spit island, 9+ Moorhen (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Willow Warbler central copse (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Sandford Lake – Snipe by north reed bed (Paul Bright-Thomas)
August 23rd
Lea Farm Lake – Reed Warbler in front of Ron’s hide, 2+ Lapwing sat on the mud spoil, Grey Wagtail also on the spoils (Steve Clarke); Whinchat on the bush in reedy ditch near to the pallets (FJC); Wheatear on a vent over and behind the diggers (Roger Stansfield)
August 22nd
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher buzzed the Bitten hide, 9 Gadwall just landed in front of the hide, Grey Wagtail on the scrape (Pete Lunn); 2 Green Sandpipers on right hand side beyond the Sand Martin wall (Phillip Miller)
Sandford Lake – 5 Shoveler, 7 Teal on the shingle spit (FJC); Hobby over the lake heading towards Lavell’s (Nick Kightley)
Black Swan Lake – White Wagtail on the beach by the boats (Pete Lunn)
August 21st
Lea Farm Lake – 5 Teal, Mandarin Duck (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Redstart female still in back hedge calling frequently (FJC)
Sandford Lake – Mandarin Duck female, 8 Teal, Shoveler (FJC)
August 20th
Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6 Teal (FJC); 2 Greenshank highly mobile and assumed both flew off then circled low near Ron’s hide and stayed in north west corner (Noel Silver and FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Redstart female in the north end of the field (Noel Silver)
Sandford Lake – Mandarin Duck female on exposed shingle spit at north end the first since early June (FJC)
August 19th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Common Sandpiper, Snipe flushed from the east shore (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Redstart female (Paul Etherton); Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap male and female (Mark Shaw); Kestrel in the trees near where the Redstart is (Pete Lunn)
August 18th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – 2 Redstart both females on the north end of the field both on the fence and in the hedges, Lesser Whitethroat near the Redstart’s, 3+ Blackcap (Bob Bennett)
Sandford Lake – Common Sandpiper, 5 Teal on the shingle spit (FJC)
Female Redstart in the Car Park field – Eddie Napper
August 17th
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Willow Warbler in the east side of the central copse, 3 Swift over south (Paul Bright-Thomas); 2 Redstart both females on the north end of field, 3 Lesser Whitethroat at the north side of the field (Brian Bennett)
Sandford Lake – 3 Common Tern two adults and a juvenile (Paul Bright-Thomas)
August 16th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper from Renton’s screen (Steve Clarke)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Willow Warbler in the side of the central copse (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Sandford Lake – 2 Common Tern first winter juveniles on the exposed gravel spit (FJC); 3 Common Tern 2 adult’s and a juvenile, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher (Trevor Guyatt)
Black Swan Lake – 2 Swift over the east bank heading south (Tim James)
August 15th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper in the north east corner, Green Sandpiper on the south spit, 5 Teal three on the south spit and two in the north east corner (FJC); 6 Greenfinch on the feeder’s at Ron’s hide (Keith Seymour)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher briefly landed on post (Daniel Ellerby); 2 Green Sandpiper at back of mostly dried up scrape (FJC)
Lavell’s Viewing Point – 10+ Swallow on wires in front of the old Oak, Cattle Egret flying south along Loddon but obscured by trees much of the time (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 7 Shoveler, 2 Teal, 2 Common Tern and adult with a juvenile (FJC)
August 14th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Common Sandpiper in the north east corner, 6 Common Tern three adults and three juveniles all on rafts (FJC); Green Sandpiper between Renton’s screen towards Ron’s hide (Philip Giles); Greater Spotted Woodpecker in the tree behind Renton’s screen (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher perched briefly, Green Sandpiper (FJC); 2 Green Sandpiper in front of Bitten hide (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Willow Warbler in the central copse (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 50+ Gadwall, 2 Teal, Wigeon, Shoveler (FJC)
Green and Common Sandpiper’s at Lea Farm Lake – Philip Giles
August 13th
Lea Farm Lake – Nuthatch on feeder (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Snipe on the Bund, 2 Green Sandpiper, Sparrowhawk flew over (Alan Jackman)
Sandford Lake – 50 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, Shoveler (Ian Young)
Mortimer’s Meadow – Peregrine over, 10+ Blackcap, 2+ Whitethroat juvenile (Dave Rimes)
August 12th
Lea Farm Lake – 57 Lapwing minimum, 2 Common Tern adult and juvenile, Common Sandpiper, Mistle Thrush perched on tree at the Landfill boundary (FJC); 2 Teal (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher, Little Egret feeding (Chris Elliot); 3 Green Sandpiper (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Willow Warbler heard, 8 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 45+ Gadwall (FJC); 3 Great Crested Grebe adult with two well grown chicks (Chris Elliot)
Black Swan Lake – 7 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail on the raft (FJC)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 3 Yellow Wagtail flew south calling (Dave Rimes)
August 11th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher (Alan Jackman); 2 Green Sandpiper from Renton’s screen sleeping on the west shore looking towards Ron’s hide, Hobby in the far distance (FJC); 3 Shoveler, 2 Green Sandpiper (Peter Scudamore)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher in front of Bittern hide, 2 Green Sandpiper (Alan Jackman); 4 Green Sandpiper one on the scrape and 3 by the Poplar tree, Shoveler on the Bund (Philip Giles); 2 Kingfisher at the far end of the lake from Bittern hide (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff all in the north west corner, Sparrowhawk female flew low almost directly towards me before veering into central copse (Michael Hubbard)
Sandford Lake – Spotted Flycatcher calling between sluice and hide at the junction where path splits towards White Swan (Philip Giles); Teal, 4 Shoveler (FJC)
Spotted Flycatcher in the Car Park field – Don Broadbridge
August 10th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Whinchat one on the fence towards right hand end of the long grass the other on a Landfill vent on the brow directly behind the shingle island but flew right and lost in flight, Stonechat flew from far end into reeds in the north east bay (FJC); Hobby over from Lodge Wood, 2 Common Tern still about, Lapwing juvenile still in the south west corner (Peter Scudamore); 21 Lapwing, 3 Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap (FJC); Spotted Flycatcher in the north west corner, 5+ Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Sandford Lake – 23 Lapwing, Wigeon (Paul Bright-Thomas)
August 9th
Lea Farm Lake – 20 Gadwall, Teal, Whitethroat left of Ron’s hide, 2 House Martin heading south, 3 Sand Martin heading south, 8 Swallow, Green Sandpiper on south spit, 4 Common Tern all adults heading north, 36 Herring and Lesser Blacked-back Gull over low heading south west, Kingfisher in front of Ron’s hide briefly, 4 Reed Warbler spread around the reeds (FJC); 2 Kingfishers chasing each other near Renton’s screen (Daniel Ellerby); Red Kite juvenile in the trees on the other side of the river between Ron’s and Renton’s (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Sparrowhawk top of the lake trees (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Swift over heading south west, Bullfinch juvenile, Whitethroat female, 3+ Blackcap (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 30 Gadwall, 2 Common Tern adult and a juvenile (FJC); Coal Tit by the Aviation museum (Philip Giles)
Black Swan Lake – Swift over the Activity Centre heading south east (FJC)
August 8th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Common Tern, 55+ Lapwing, Green Sandpiper in the south east Bay, Shoveler just dropped into the south west corner (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher on a post from Bittern hide (Alan Jackman); 7 House Martin over the lake (Richard Sajdak)
Sandford Lake – Wigeon male, numerous Gadwall, 75+ Black-headed Gull on exposed gravel north side (FJC)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 2+ Whitethroat all juveniles, Willow Warbler (Dave Rimes)
August 7th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper (Rick Dawson)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Willow Warbler one in sub-song opposite picnic bench the other calling at the back of the Car Park field, Sparrowhawk (Rick Dawson); Green Sandpiper just flown in onto the scrape (Philip Giles)
Sandford Lake – Hobby (Rick Dawson)
August 6th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Common Tern on the raft and buoys, Little Egret, 2 House Martin feeding low over the trees around Renton’s screen, Whitethroat adult in hedge about 50m north of Ron’s hide, Skylark flushed by tractor on landfill (Trevor Guyatt); Lapwing juvenile still in south west corner (Peter Scudamore)
Black Swan Lake – Spotted Flycatcher west side by Middle Marsh sallying from dead tree (Andy Tomczynski)
August 4th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper near Renton’s screen (Alan Jackman); 10 House Martin feeding high over the Loddon by the Green bridge to Ron’s, 2 Common Sandpiper in a pool to the right of Renton’s screen (Kevin Shea)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Green Sandpiper, 3 Oystercatcher all from Bittern hide (Alan Jackman); Sparrowhawk calling in the distance towards Teal hide (Kevin Shea)
August 3rd
Lea Farm Lake – A small group of Swallow’s stopped for a drink then continued south (Peter Scudamore)
Lavell’s Lake – 5 Green Sandpiper on scrape, Lapwing on the Bund (Peter Scudamore)
August 2nd
Lea Farm Lake – 29 Lapwing including a juvenile which is almost full grown now, 2 Common Tern, 3 Oystercatcher including one juvenile, Great Crested Grebe still sat on the nest, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher briefly, Sedge Warbler to the left of Renton’s screen in the reeds (Steve Clarke); Red Kite juvenile in the trees opposite side of the river between Ron’s and Renton’s (Pete Lunn); 2 Little Grebe, Green Sandpiper (Adrian Bull); Common Sandpiper juvenile in front of Renton’s screen, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern both adults perched on the raft and a buoy, Peregrine probable male flew low over the lake past the hide and kept going north over Lodge Wood (Trevor Guyatt)
Lavell’s Lake – Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff both seen near Betty’s bench, 2 Reed Warbler both juveniles, 4 Chiffchaff all juveniles, 3 Green Sandpiper (Steve Clarke)
Sandford Lake – 30 Egyptian Geese roosting, Kingfisher, 4 Common Tern, 2 Herring Gull (Steve Clarke)
August 1st
Lea Farm Lake – Lapwing juvenile in the south west bay (Peter Scudamore)
