August 31st
Lea Farm Lake – 81+ Shoveler, 9 Wigeon (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Redstart in the Car Park field (FJC)
Juvenile Redstart at Lavell’s Lake – Geoff Emmett
August 30th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Redstart juvenile male in the Car Park field, Kingfisher, Reed Warbler from the hide (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – 3 Wigeon (Nick Kightley)
August 28th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 22 Shoveler, 18 Teal, Kestrel on the landfill (Brian Bennett)
Lavell’s Lake – Redstart juvenile male in the Car Park field (Brian Bennett)
August 27th
Lea Farm Lake – Kestrel sitting on a vent left side of the landfill, 4 Common Tern (Bob Bennett)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Redstart both juveniles on left side of the Car Park field near metal gate, 2 Whitethroat top corner of the Car Park field, Blackcap male, Ring-necked Parakeet over, Green Woodpecker over (Bob Bennett); Spotted Flycatcher currently hunting in the top end of the Car Park meadow (Ben Knowles)
August 26th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Whinchat sitting together on the 9th vent from left on landfill (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Wigeon male and female coming out of eclipse, 3 Shoveler (Anne Cronin); Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Redstart, Pied Flycatcher all at the top end of the Car Park field (Tim James)
Black Swan Lake – 5 Mistle Thrush on the old golf course (Nick Kightley)
Pied Flycatcher at Lavell’s Lake – Roger Stansfield
Spotted Flycatcher at Lavell’s Lake – Alan Jackman
Juvenile Redstart at Lavell’s Lake – Caroline Moore
August 25th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Chiffchaff, Kestrel female, Nuthatch, 4 Common Tern all adults (Richard Marsh)
August 24th
Lavell’s Lake – Great White Egret at the far end of the lake from Bittern hide, Little Egret from the viewing screens onto the Wet Meadows, Water Rail juvenile, Kingfisher showing well (Lee Ellams)
August 23rd
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Ruff two male and one female all juveniles (Richard Marsh); Whinchat on the landfill, 2 Green Sandpiper on the east shore (Brian Bennett)
Lavell’s Lake – Wigeon male (Nick Kightley)
3 Juvenile Ruff at Lea Farm Lake – Alan Jackman
August 20th
Lea Farm Lake – Peregrine over spooking the Lapwings, 2 Kingfisher the first has been sat on one post or another for 10 minutes just heard a second nearby (FJC); Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Paul Doctor)
Lavell’s Lake – Little Egret, Kingfisher (Caroline Moore)
August 19th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 13 Shoveler, 2 Common Tern a chick on each raft (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Willow Warbler sub song by car park gate (FJC); 2 Kingfisher flew around the lake a few times before heading to Lea Farm (Mark Hasler); Hobby, Blackcap, Reed Warbler (Nick Kightley)
August 18th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (FJC)
August 17th
Lea Farm Lake – Ringed Plover on the east shore (FJC); 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin Duck female (Marek Walford); 2 Shoveler in the north east bay, Hobby over landfill, 10 Sand Martin still feeding juveniles in the wall (Michael Hubbard)
Ringed Plover at Lea Farm Lake – FJC
August 16th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper (Richard Marsh); Common Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Kestrel, Peregrine flew past (Nick Kightley); 2 Peregrines possible juveniles very active among the Terns (Steve Molloy)
August 15th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin Duck, 12 Shoveler, 6 Teal, Little Egret (Brian Bennett)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Little Egret (Ralph Watts)
August 14th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 7 Shoveler, 2 Hobby usual brown bird plus adult over Lodge Wood, Cuckoo juvenile brown bird flew over towards Lavell’s, Whinchat beyond our fence then further back on landfill vent (FJC)
August 13th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Nick Kightley); 61 Mallard, 19 Gadwall, 5 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 2 Great White Egret over heading south east beyond tallest trees, 13 Lesser Black-backed Gull heading west, 6 Herring Gull (FJC); Common Gull just flew south over lake, Hobby, Mandarin Duck juvenile, Ringed Plover adult (Andy Tomczynski); Whitethroat (Ida Groot-Attias)
Whitethroat at Lea Farm Lake – Ida Groot-Attias
August 12th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (FJC)
August 10th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Hobby hunting, 2 Kestrel, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Blackcap both females in a tit flock (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Kingfisher in front of Bittern hide (Caroline Moore)
Kingfisher at Lavell’s Lake – Caroline Moore
August 9th
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Great Crested Grebe adult with 3 chicks, 3 Tufted Duck adult with 2 chicks (Alan Rymer)
August 8th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Hobby the 1st year bird continues to hunt Sand Martin over the lake each morning returning to the Oak behind the artificial wall the second mobbing the Peregrine, 10 Teal, Sparrowhawk briefly, Kestrel over landfill, Peregrine circling beyond landfill (FJC)
August 7th
Lea Farm Lake – 14 Teal, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine over south west corner where it nearly took a Sand Martin, 2 Hobby chasing each other over south west corner and wider area, 3 Mandarin Duck all juveniles (FJC)
August 6th
Lea Farm Lake – 13 Teal, 7 Shoveler, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 31+ Sand Martin mostly chicks healthy count for the second brood (FJC)
August 5th
Lea Farm Lake – 6 Teal, 3 Shoveler, Green Sandpiper, 17 Gadwall, Kingfisher all in south west corner, Peregrine over apparently in hunting mode (FJC); 2 Mandarin Duck female and juvenile, Little Grebe, 4 Little Egret, 3 Kestrel all juveniles on the landfill (Brian Bennett)
Lavell’s Lake – Water Rail adult back of the scrape then flew to main island reed bed (FJC); 2 Little Egret in the Wet Meadow field (Les Blundell)
August 3rd
Lea Farm Lake – Hobby perched in tree opposite and slightly right of Ron’s hide (FJC); 2 Shoveler, Green Sandpiper, Teal all in the south west corner, Little Egret, 3 Kestrel all juveniles over the landfill (Brian Bennett)
August 2nd
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Common Sandpiper on the north east spit, 2 Green Sandpiper in the south west corner, Hobby, 3 Little Egret, 4 Kestrel three juveniles and an adult female over the landfill (Brian Bennett)
August 1st
Lea Farm Lake – Little Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper, Hobby in and out of Oak tree above the Sand Martin Wall, Kingfisher on bar in front of hide (Eddie Napper); 4 Kestrel three juveniles sitting on separate vents on the landfill with an adult female hunting and dropping off prey to them, Mandarin Duck female in middle of shingle island, 2 Little Egret at either ends of lake (Michael Hubbard)
