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October 12th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Stonechat on the fence line from Mavis Bryant hide, Cetti’s Warbler along the Loddon near Ron’s hide (Brian Crathorne)
Lavell’s Lake – Common Snipe in reeds by the large Poplar (Philip Giles); Snipe on mud below Sand Martin wall from Teal hide (Steve Brooker)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 2 Chaffinch (Steve Clarke)

October 11th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Stonechat two males and a female, Great White Egret (FJC); Green Woodpecker sitting next to a picnic table from Renton’s screen (Jon Jackson)
Lavell’s Lake – Common Snipe in reeds by the large Poplar (Philip Giles)
Landfill Viewing Point – 30+ Redwing heading west, 5 Reed Bunting from the Balancing pond, 6 Goldfinch, 5 Greenfinch heading south, 70 Chaffinch heading west low level passage in various group sizes up to 20, 3 Mistle Thrush heading south east, Great White Egret over dropped to south east corner of Lea Farm Lake, 9 Skylark over, 6 Linnet over low heading south, 5+ Siskin heading south east, 20+ Meadow Pipit towards to far side of the Landfill (FJC)
Sandford Lake – Cetti’s Warbler in reeds in front of hide (Jon Jackson)

October 10th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Stonechat probably 3 along fence and in the long grass, 30 Meadow Pipit with 8+ along the east shore and with groups going west, 11 Skylark heading west, Little Grebe in the north east bay, 3 Wigeon, 3 Great White Egret 2 joined the 1 on site already, 8 Little Egret over heading south (FJC); Sparrowhawk in the trees in the south west corner, Emperor Goose on rear of the main island (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Lake – 5 Reed Bunting over low towards Lavell’s Tern scrape from Bittern Hide, 5 Linnet in 1’s & 2’s west to south west (FJC)
Landfill Viewing Point – 2 Linnet, Skylark heading south (FJC)

October 9th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper between Ron’s hide and Renton’s screen (Pete Lunn); 3 Stonechat females, 5 Meadow Pipit on the fence line, Green Sandpiper in front of the new hide all seen from the new Mavis Bryant hide (Colin Holmes)
Black Swan Lake – Firecrest along the path between Coot Bay and Middle Marsh very vocal, Goldcrest (Dave Rimes)
White Swan Lake – Linnet over heading west (Dave Rimes)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 15 Redwing over (Dave Rimes)

October 8th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret in the north east corner, Little Grebe in front of the Sand Martin wall (Phillip Miller); 2 Great White Egret, Pink-footed Goose in front of Ron’s hide, Snipe beneath Ron’s hide seen from Renton’s screen, 2 Stonechat in the long grass in front of the fence line (Nick Kightley)

October 6th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret (Kevin Starley)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Pheasant one male and two females on bund/scrape seen from Bittern hide (Philip Giles)

October 5th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Stonechat male and female in reeds in front of Ron’s hide (Philip Giles)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher in front of Bittern hide (Philip Giles)

October 4th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret in the north east corner, Snipe on the east shore, 3 Meadow Pipit, Skylark heard, Little Egret, 2 Stonechat male and female under the new hide, Pink-footed Goose landed on the east shore (Adam Wigley); Emperor Goose on the east shore seen from the new Mavis hide (Philip Giles)
Lavell’s Lake – Hobby flew over Sandford Lane towards Bittern hide (Peter Scudamore)

October 3rd
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Great White Egret often chasing each other around, 2 Raven west north west beyond Lodge Wood Lake, Green Sandpiper, Snipe on the east shore but mobile, 25 Meadow Pipit 7 around lake edge with 2 groups of 9+ heading south east, 3 Skylark heading north east, Whitethroat late bird mobile along reedy ditch, 2 Stonechat both adults, Pink-footed Goose flew in from east south east with Greylags and went to sleep (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper by large Poplar (Philip Giles)
Black Swan Lake – Grey Wagtail (Philip Giles)

Grey Wagtail at Black Swan Lake – Philip Giles

October 2nd
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret, 8 Grey Heron, 5 Little Egret, Grey Wagtail on the bank in front on the hide, 50+ Cormorants, Emperor Goose still here on the far bank opposite Ron’s hide (Keith Seymour); Pink-footed Goose swimming near the far shore, Green Sandpiper between the Sand Martin wall and the new island, Wigeon male in eclipse (Paul Doctor)

October 1st
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret, Stonechat, Pink-footed Goose, Green Sandpiper (Nick Kightley)

September 30th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret in the north east corner, 2 Stonechat male and female on the boundary fence (Brian Bennett); Pink-footed Goose, Emperor Goose, Little Egret, 20 Cormorant (Colin Holmes)

September 29th
Lea Farm Lake – Pink-footed Goose on the east shore, Emperor Goose on the east shore, Green Sandpiper roaming about in the north east corner, 2 Mandarin Duck male and female feeding in a vegetation “lump” in the middle of the east beach (Gray Burfoot)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher perched briefly in front of Bitten hide (Philip Giles); Snipe feeding on lake edge of bund in front of Bittern hide (Peter Scudamore)
Black Swan Lake – Pink-footed Goose with group of Greylag on the west side of Goat island (Tim James)

September 28th
Lea Farm Lake – Pink-footed Goose heard calling with Greylag as they left roost, Emperor Goose, 4 Wigeon, 12 Teal, Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Stonechat on the fence, 2 Grey Wagtail, 8 Shoveler, 14 Gadwall (FJC); Great White Egret, Emperor Goose both on the west bank (Alan Jackman); Pink-footed Goose now in the south west corner (Phillip Miller); Sedge Warbler associating closely with the Reed Warbler, Reed Warbler, 3 Little Egret, 3 Snipe (Andy Tomczynski)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher at Bitten hide (Paul Mattingly)

September 27th
Lea Farm Lake – Pink-footed Goose, Emperor Goose, Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 2 Pied Wagtail, 3 Grey Wagtail, Snipe, Green Sandpiper (Steve Clarke); 2 Great White Egret (Alan Jackman)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher briefly in front of Bitten hide (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Chaffinch into trees on the west side (FJC)

Emperor Goose at Lea Farm Lake – Alan Jackman

September 26th
Lea Farm Lake – Emperor Goose in the large Greylag flock, Green Sandpiper, Great White Egret, Little Egret, Pink-footed Goose still present on the bank to the left of the island (Marek Walford); Pink-footed Goose on east shore with Greylag Geese, calling occasionally, 5 Grey Heron, 4 Little Egret, 3 Snipe on the east shore, Common Sandpiper on Shelduck Island, 3 Wigeon, 10+ Shoveler, 10+ Gadwall, 10+ Teal, Little Grebe, Green Sandpiper on the north west shore (FJC); Wheatear on post to the right of the island beyond the fence line (Paul Bright-Thomas); 2 Stonechat on the fence line (Tim James)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Reed Warbler in Phragmites on north edge of lake (FJC); 2 Kingfisher chasing each other in front of Bittern hide (Philip Giles); Snipe (Mike Watt)
Sandford Lake – Little Grebe, 61 Lapwing, 2 Little Egret, 4 Teal, 48 Shoveler (Marek Walford); 80+ Lapwing north mud spit (FJC)

Pink-footed Goose at Lea Farm Lake – FJC

September 25th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper on south west bay (Alan Jackman)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Kingfisher the first perched and caught a very small fish whilst the 2nd flew in and then off (Philip Giles); Kingfisher male perched dived and then flew off (Jonny Melville)

September 24th
Lea Farm Lake – 6 Little Egret, Great White Egret, 50+ Cormorant (Keith Seymour)
Lavell’s Lake – Sparrowhawk male perched on the main island (Philip Giles)

September 23rd
Lea Farm Lake – Cuckoo juvenile flew from behind the Sand Martin wall right to left along far shore then away over the landfill (Peter Driver); Snipe beside new hide, Little Grebe beside Shelduck island (Tim James)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper by the large Poplar, Kingfisher fly past left to right (Philip Giles)
Sandford Lake – Little Grebe, 75+ Cormorant (Tim James)
Black Swan Lake – Common Gull to the left of the jetty (Philip Giles)

September 21st
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Yellow Wagtail seen from Renton’s screen, 3 Great White Egret showing well on far bank (Chris Elliot); Buzzard flying slowly towards Lodge Wood, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper both in the south west bay, 80 Lapwing just in but remaining (Michael Hubbard)
Lavell’s Lake – 9 Grey Heron flying high but in a V formation heading west (Michael Hubbard)
Sandford Lake – 3 Little Grebe diving together around tip of main island, 27 Shoveler, 9 Teal, 19 Lapwing on or around exposed mud, Green Sandpiper, 2 Cetti’s Warbler calling, Grey Wagtail (Michael Hubbard)

September 20th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Sedge Warbler in front of Ron’s hide, 2 Little Grebe in the south west corner, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Great White Egret, 21 Shoveler (FJC); 5 Little Egret (Brian Crathorne); 3 Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret, 4 Grey Heron all under new hide (Gray Burfoot); 7 Grey Heron (Lorna Akers-Douglas)
Landfill Viewing Point – 3 Linnet heading south, Hobby could have been 2 birds one 10 mins apart chased off east by Jackdaws, 20 House Martin, 40 Meadow Pipit in groups of 2-7 heading south (FJC)

2 Great White Egrets at Lea Farm Lake – FJC

September 19th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Great White Egret in the south west corner (Brian Bennett); Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail on the south east shoreline (Pete Lunn); 50+ Meadow Pipit heading north over the Landfill (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Swallow heading south (Philip Giles); Green Sandpiper on left of two exposed humps to the right and back of the main island (Pete Lunn)
Landfill Viewing Point – 2 Great White Egret flew heading south over Lea Farm Lake, Peregrine distant and off east, 1500+ House Martin passage increasing from groups of 20+ to 50-100+ (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 2 Little Grebe towards the west end (Philip Giles)

September 18th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret, Little Grebe close to the western edge seen from Renton’s screen (Rick Dawson); 2 Great White Egret in the north east corner (Lorna Akers-Douglas)
Lavell’s Lake – Marsh Tit on cleared area to left of main path by Sandford Lane just east of Teal hide (Lorna Akers-Douglas)

September 17th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret, Common Sandpiper both by the new hide (Phillip Miller)
Lavell’s Lake – Great White Egret far left end in a tree (Philip Giles)
Sandford Lake – Kingfisher on the Loddon by the weir (Alan Jackman)

September 16th
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Reed Bunting in front of Ron’s hide, Common Sandpiper on the shore right side of Ron’s hide, Kingfisher flew up river by the Green bridge (Pete Lunn); 3 Stonechat on the boundary fence (Brian Bennett); Whinchat, 2 Wheatear male and female all perched on fence and posts in the north east corner, 63 Cormorants standing on edge of the south west bay, 4 Little Egret 3 in the south west bay with 1 near the new hide (Trevor Gutatt)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher perched up in front of Bittern hide (Philip Giles)

September 13th
Lea Farm Lake – Cattle Egret appeared in the north east corner, 3 Yellow-legged Gull 1st w/cy drifted in from the north, Stonechat juvenile on the east fence, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (FJC); Green Sandpiper between the Sand Martin wall and the island, Little Egret chased off by a Heron (Andrew Curd); Great White Egret (Brian Crathorne); Firecrest just north of the Green bridge, Goldcrest, 2 Green Sandpiper (Paul Bright-Thomas); 3 Little Egret all around the channel between the Sand Martin wall and the island, 2 Heron close, 23 Swallow in small groups 6,7,6 and 4 through heading south (Michael Hubbard)
Lavell’s Lake – Little Grebe from Bittern hide (Philip Giles); 3 Teal, Kingfisher (Marek Walford)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Spotted Flycatcher in the tall hawthorn in the northern corner (Paul Bright-Thomas); Hobby over east (Marek Walford)
Landfill Viewing Point – Whinchat male mid way along hedgerow, 2 Cattle Egret flew over Lea Farm Lake then off west north west, Wheatear on telegraph pole, 2 Meadow Pipit heading west, 30+ Swallow in small groups of about 5 trickling south (FJC); Sparrowhawk, Hobby both over heading west, 2 Meadow Pipit over towards the south east (Michael Hubbard)
Sandford Lake – 42 Shoveler, 6 Teal, 30 Lapwing (Marek Walford)

September 12th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret behind the shingle island (Dave Rimes); Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Egret (Marek Walford)
Lavell’s Lake – Marsh Tit behind Teal hide calling and showing well (Dave Rimes); Raven flew west low over Teal hide and the river (Trevor Guyatt)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Tree Pipit flew low south and called 3 times, Spotted Flycatcher flew to trees by the Barn Owl box (Dave Rimes)

Marsh Tit at Lavell’s Lake – Dave Rimes

September 11th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret in the south east bay, 4 Green Sandpiper (FJC)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Spotted Flycatcher on the west side, 10 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff around the big Hawthorn (FJC)
Landfill Viewing Point – 3 Grey Wagtail heading east, 2 Little Egret heading east, 2+ House Martin, Swallow high over landfill, 3 Meadow Pipit presumed heading north without calling one dropped towards Lea Farm Lake, 150+ House Martin just west of Lea Farm Lake towards the south west corner, Sand Martin, 3 Swallow heading south (FJC)

September 10th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret in the south east corner (Philip Giles)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Grey Wagtail on the power lines (Philip Giles)

September 8th
Lea Farm Lake – Great White Egret on the north shore (Tim James)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Hobby low over field towards Lavell’s chased by a Crow, 4 Blackcap with 2 male’s and 2 female’s on the northern hedge (Trevor Guyatt)

September 7th
Lea Farm Lake – 6 Little Egret, 30+ Cormorant majority feeding on the lake (Keith Seymour)
Lavell’s Lake – 8 Wigeon just landed (Keith Seymour)

September 6th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Great Black-backed Gull adult west over Lavell’s, 4 Green Sandpiper in the south west corner (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Treecreeper outside Teal Hide, 20+ Long-tailed Tit (John Wolff)
Lavell’s Car Park Field – Redstart female in bushes 40m right of big Hawthorn, 15 Blackcap (FJC)
Landfill Viewing Point – 13 Yellow Wagtail three then a nice flock of ten more over towards Lea Farm Lake, 20+ House Martin towards the south end of Lea farm Lake, 20+ Swallow heading south east, Kestrel (FJC)

September 5th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper on the shoreline right of Ron’s hide (Pete Lunn); Hobby came in fast and low snatching insects over the south west bay, 43 Cormorant at rest here and on the central spit, 85 Greylag on the east shore, 2 Little Egret just flown north (Michael Hubbard)
Landfill Viewing Point – 60+ House Martin heading south along Loddon beyond the Poplar, Yellow Wagtail heading south, Grey Wagtail over, 2 Kingfisher flew by heading to Lavell’s, 5 Buzzard, Kestrel, 20 Swallow heading south (FJC)
Sandford Lake – Sedge Warbler in the trees on the left side of the path about 100m from the road, Great Spotted Woodpecker going to and from the tall dead single tree in the same area (Pete Lunn)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 2 Spotted Flycatcher in the central hedge chasing each other around (Dave Rimes)

Spotted Flycatcher at Mortimer’s Meadow – Dave Rimes

September 4th
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher perched briefly in front of Bittern hide (Philip Giles)
Sandford Lake – Green Sandpiper on the north mud spit (Philip Giles)
Redwood Lake – Kingfisher perched on the south side (Brian Bennett)

September 3rd
Lea Farm Lake – Raven mobbed a Buzzard, Whinchat on the fence line (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Spotted Flycatcher at wooded triangle near Sandford Lane Yellow gate (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – 10 Teal on the north mud spit, Green Sandpiper on the south mud spit (FJC)
Black Swan Lake – 3 Little Egret over the Activity Centre heading south along the Emm Brook (FJC)

September 2nd
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher perched in front of Bittern hide (Philip Giles)
Sandford Lake – Green Sandpiper on the north spit, Kingfisher flew across to the north west corner (Philip Giles)

September 1st
Lea Farm Lake – Wheatear on the fence line (Nick Kightley); Snipe in gully left of the Sand Martin wall, Green Sandpiper on the south east bank (Trevor Guyatt)
Lavell’s Lake – Little Grebe (Philip Giles); Spotted Flycatcher in triangle of trees by the Yellow gate on north side of Sandford lane (Tim James)
Landfill Viewing Point – 6 Sand Martin heading south, 50+ Swallow heading south over Lea Farm Lake, 5 Yellow Wagtail heading south in two groups of 2 and 3 however 3 turned back heading for Lea Farm Lake and the north east corner, 100+ House Martin heading south east (FJC)
Sandford Lake – Snipe on spit, Little Grebe (Paul Bright-Thomas)

FOR OLDER SIGHTINGS GO TO THE ARCHIVE HERE