December 30th
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Little Egret heading north (FJC)
December 29th
Lea Farm Lake – Reed Bunting on the feeder’s, Water Rail under the feeder’s, Sparrowhawk landed on the feeder’s but failed to catch anything (Adam McTiernan); Barnacle Goose on the Landfill with the Canada Geese (Tim James); Chiffchaff, 15 Common Gull (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Goldcrest near the bridge to the car park (Andy Dearing); Chiffchaff calling loudly near Bittern hide, Sparrowhawk male near feeder’s (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Sandford Lake – 87 Pochard (FJC); 9+ Common Gull (Nick Kightley)
Black Swan Lake – 10 Common Gull (Nick Kightley); Chiffchaff near the northern outlet (Paul Bright-Thomas)
White Swan Lake – Bittern showing further to the left, Common Gull (Nick Kightley)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 2 Raven heading east (FJC); Little Egret at the flooded south end, Bullfinch in hedge (Dave Rimes)
The Moor – Great White Egret (Clive Boxwell)
December 28th
Lavell’s Lake – Goldcrest on left hand side of path from car park just before path to Bittern Hide (Paul Mattingly)
December 27th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Stonechat on fence, Peregrine in Oak (Tim James)
Black Swan Lake – Barnacle Goose to the south of the island closest to the duck feeding area, Goldeneye male in the southern bay (Tim James)
White Swan Lake – Kingfisher on the Loddon by Wooden Bridge (Dave Rimes); 2 Bittern showing just inside reed front(Roger Stansfield)
Mortimer’s Meadow – Peregrine on a pylon (Dave Rimes)
Barnacle Goose on Black Swan Lake – Alan Jackman
December 26th
Sandford Lake – 70 Pochard (FJC)
Black Swan Lake – 3 Goldeneye 2 male and a female probably several more on the lake (Doug MacKenzie-Dodds)
White Swan Lake – 2 Bittern, 2 Siskin, Little Egret (Dave Rimes)
Mortimer’s Meadow – 2 Kingfisher chasing around the flooded meadow (Dave Rimes)
December 24th
Black Swan Lake – 3 Goldeneye male and 2 females seen in the southern part of the lake near the feeding area (Tim James)
December 22nd
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Water Rail calling from opposite the reed beds from Teal hide, Chiffchaff just outside the Teal hide with roving Tit flock (Michael Hubbard)
Sandford Lake – 54 Pochard, 42 Wigeon, 20 Gadwall, 11 Shoveler, Kingfisher along the west bank (Michael Hubbard)
Black Swan Lake – 2 Goldeneye male and female seen in the southern part of the lake (Dave Rimes)
December 21st
Lea Farm Lake – Water Rail under the feeder’s at Ron’s hide, 2 Common Gull in the Black-headed Gull flock to right of the main island (Gray Burfoot)
Lavell’s Lake – Tawny Owl male calling on the west side of the Car Park field (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Black Swan Lake – Chiffchaff, 2 Goldeneye both females from the deck of the cafe, Little Egret (Dave Rimes)
Mortimer’s Meadow – Peregrine on a pylon enjoying it’s breakfast (Dave Rimes)
December 20th
Lea Farm Lake – Water Rail under the feeder’s at Ron’s hide, 2 Stonechat on the fence, Peregrine just through putting up the lapwings (Tim James)
Lavell’s Lake – Water Rail under the feeder briefly at Bittern hide (Peter Scudamore); 12 Teal on the Bund making whistling noises like a boiling kettle (Adam McTiernan)
December 18th
Lavell’s Lake – Woodcock over Teal scrape high west and kept going (FJC)
White Swan Lake – 2 Bittern left of pontoon then one flew right (Simon Huggins)
December 17th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Goosander one male and two females on the river Loddon opposite the Green Bridge and heading down stream (Tim James)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Little Egret over heading to roost (FJC); Chiffchaff calling from the Emm Brook footbridge (Paul Bright-Thomas)
Landfill – 2 Fieldfare perched at the top of the old Oak tree Bench (FJC)
Black Swan Lake – Chiffchaff between here and Sandford lake (Paul Bright-Thomas); Marsh Harrier seen from Teal hide, heading in direction of the Dinton Activity Centre (Jamie Samson)
White Swan Lake – 3 Bittern two seen in flight with third in view (Paul Bright-Thomas); Lapwing over, Siskin over, 2 Snipe came down into reed bed (Dave Rimes)
3 Goosander along the River Loddon – Tim James
December 16th
White Swan Lake – 2 Bittern seen together, 2 Water Rail, Raven (Dave Rimes)
December 15th
Lea Farm Lake – Water Rail beneath the feeder’s (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Bullfinch by path to Bittern hide, Water Rail in ditch adjacent to Teal hide (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – 5 Snipe on island from Lyn’s Bench (Dave Rimes)
White Swan Lake – 2 Bittern in the reeds on the north east of the lake, Kingfisher (Dave Rimes); Bittern possible third bird in the reeds (Tim James)
Bittern in Flight at White Swan Lake – Alan Jackman
2 Bittern ‘s in the reeds at White Swan Lake – Alan Jackman
December 14th
Lea Farm Lake – Water Rail beneath the feeder’s, 3 Ring-necked Parakeet on the feeder’s (Arthur Gallagher)
Sandford Lake – 3 Snipe on island from Lyn’s Bench (Dave Rimes)
Black Swan Lake – Little Egret, Chiffchaff (Dave Rimes)
White Swan Lake – 2 Goosander on the west side of the lake (Dave Rimes)
Male Goosander at White Swan Lake – Alan Jackman
December 12th
White Swan Lake – 2 Goosander male and female seen at dusk (Peter Scudamore)
Mortimer’s Meadow – Peregrine over heading north west fast (FJC)
December 11th
Lavell’s Lake – Sparrowhawk over Car park field in fog, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Common Gull, Chiffchaff feeding by path to Teal hide, Little Egret on the Loddon (Peter Scudamore)
Black Swan Lake – Kestrel sitting on wires in the Dinton Activity Centre car park (Peter Scudamore)
December 10th
Black Swan Lake – Goldeneye male in the south end, Mediterranean Gull adult flew low east over sailing club car park away from Dinton (Dave Rimes)
December 7th
Sandford Lake – Raven heading south over Aviation Meadow cronking (Dave Rimes)
White Swan Lake – 10+ Siskin along the Loddon in an Alder copse just south of the Wooden bridge (Dave Rimes)
December 6th
Lavell’s Lake – Water Rail heard, Cetti’s Warbler calling from the north east reed bed, Sparrowhawk just flown into tree with prey from Teal hide (Michael Hubbard)
Sandford Lake – 38 Pochard, 42 Tufted Duck, 48 Gadwall, 9 Shoveler, 51 Wigeon, 2 Little Egret (Michael Hubbard)
Black Swan Lake – Goldeneye male in the south west bay, 2 Common Gull in amongst Black Headed at the feeding area (Michael Hubbard)
December 4th
Lea Farm Lake – Water Rail in front of Ron’s hide, Snipe on east shore, 70+ Lapwing on the island (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 2 Kingfisher in the north west corner moving quickly south along west side (FJC)
December 3rd
Mortimer’s Meadow – Peregrine on a pylon (Alan Jackman)
Black Swan Lake – Goldeneye male far south end of lake (Alan Jackman)
December 1st
Lavell’s Lake – Raven in the tall Popular tree (Peter Scudamore)
Black Swan Lake – Grey Wagtail on the Activity Centre beach (Paul Mattingly)
