July 31st
Lea Farm Lake – Garganey juvenile back in the ditch on the west side looking beyond the feeders, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little-ringed Plover on the east shore, Common Tern flew in and out (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Green Sandpiper two in the scrape and two far left in front of reeds, Teal, Whitethroat, several Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Greenfinch, Bullfinch landed above our heads in the Elders behind looking from landfill viewing spot (FJC); 12+ Lapwings, Water Rail (Peter Scudamore)
Juvenile Garganey at Lea Farm Lake – Mike Kirby
July 30th
Lea Farm Lake – Garganey juvenile feeding in ditch looking beyond feeder’s from Ron’s hide, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Grey Wagtail family group, Kingfisher, 4 Little Egret (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Mistle Thrush in the Car Park field (Nick Kightley)
Juvenile Garganey at Lea Farm Lake – FJC
July 29th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper in the north west channel flew calling towards new hide area, 3 Teal in the north east corner, 80+ Lapwing all around lake (Michael Hubbard)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper in the first bay beyond the Bund, 12 Gadwall, 10 Tufted Duck, Shoveler female (Michael Hubbard)
July 28th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Little-ringed Plover juvenile (Nick Kightley); 5 Green Sandpiper, Little-ringed Plover (Keith Boseley)
July 27th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, Common Tern adult, 3 Little Egret (Brian Bennett); Dunlin in partial summer plumage, Little-ringed Plover juvenile both left of largest new shingle island, 5 Little Egret in the south west corner (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Water Rail, 2 Little Egret (Steve Lynch)
Sandford Lake – Little Egret (FJC)
July 26th
Lea Farm Lake – Kingfisher in front of hide, Teal in the north east corner, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Tern including one chick, Reed Warbler feeding young below hide on the same side as feeders (FJC); Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret (Nick Kightley); 2 Little Egret in the north east corner, 3+ Reed Warbler activity around feeders and Ron’s hide
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper (Les Blundell); 14 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper within the Bund, 2 Shoveler both female on the west side, 14 Gadwall, 12 Tufted Duck, Little Egret, 2 Common Tern on the island, Kingfisher has crossed lake twice, 10 Blackcap, Garden Warbler foraging on blackberries along path before hide, Reed Warbler wonderfully catching flies just above water surface then returning to reeds several times now, Reed Bunting calling too, Hobby over lake headed west (Michael Hubbard); 3 Green Sandpiper, Water Rail showing well from the Bittern hide (Paul Mattingly)
July 25th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 30 Lapwing (Nick Kightley); Black-tailed Godwit landed on the Scrape (Noah Wyn-Jones, thanks to his mother Nia)
Black-tailed Godwit at Lavell’s Lake – Noah and Nia Wyn-Jones
July 23rd
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret, 3 Common Tern two adults and a juvenile, Kestrel (Brian Bennett)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, 30+ Lapwing (Alan Jackman)
July 22nd
Lea Farm Lake – 5 Green Sandpiper, Another smaller wader with a discreet wing bar seen in flight briefly but not relocated (FJC); Common Sandpiper on the Shingle Island, 2 Nuthatch on the feeders, Kingfisher on the Loddon near the Green Bridge, 6 Common Tern including a juvenile on the Shingle Island (Bob Bennett); 30+ Sand Martin, 10+ House Martin over the lake and Landfill, 40+ Lapwing, 10 Gadwall (Michael Hubbard)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Shoveler, Little Egret on the Bund, 36 Lapwing flew on to the Scrape (Bob Bennett)
July 21st
Lea Farm Lake – Sparrowhawk with prey flew in front of Ron’s Hide, 3 Little Egret, Kingfisher over the Lodden near the Green Bridge, Kestrel over the Landfill, 4 Green Sandpiper (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, 4 Mallard on the Scrape (Peter Scudamore); 3 Sand Martin over the Car Park (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – 3 Little Egret (Nick Kightley)
July 20th
Lea Farm Lake – Dunlin in front of the new Waitrose hide, Kingfisher on the Loddon, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper (Alan Jackman)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Green Sandpipers (Alan Jackman)
July 19th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper still present, 64 Lapwing all around the lake, 58 Coot, 11 Stock Dove, 7 Common Tern with 2 fledglings remaining, Reed Warbler busy in vegetation near the hide, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker very vocal at both ends of the lake (Michael Hubbard)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper, 9 Gadwall, 7 Lapwing all within a much healthier looking Bund (Michael Hubbard)
July 18th
Lea Farm Lake – Common Tern chick in the north east corner (FJC); Common Tern chick left of main island, 43 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Teal (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Little Egret, 2 Bullfinch over the Car Park field (Nick Kightley)
July 17th
Lavell’s Lake – Bullfinch male, Kingfisher, Reed Warbler (Andrew Cook)
Male Bullfinch at Lavell’s Lake – Andrew Cook
July 16th
Lea Farm Lake – 5 Green Sandpiper in the south west corner and towards the north west corner, 3 Little Egret (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Shoveler, 9 Gadwall (FJC)
July 15th
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Raven circling in the distance, Little Grebe in the north east Bay, 2 Little Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper just walked out from behind reeds in the north west corner, lots of Red Kites due to far landfill having been cut (FJC); Common Sandpiper east of Ron’s hide (Paul Francis); Oystercatcher, 3 Teal in the south west corner, 50+ Sand Martin over the landfill, Black Tern possible over the lake for a few mins – dark grey head & wings smaller and far more agile with a slightly different call from the 3/4 Common Terns in pursuit of it, Kingfisher gave sharp whistle headed downstream outside Ron’s hide (Michael Hubbard)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper wading by reed bed inside the Bund, Shoveler female on the Bund, 6 Gadwall far end of lake, 2 Bullfinch over path at Gerry’s bench (Michael Hubbard)
July 14th
Lea Farm Lake – 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Common Sandpiper (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – Oystercatcher (Nick Kightley)
July 13th
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 3 Teal, 7 Little Egret (Brian Bennett); 29 Lapwing around the lake (Michael Hubbard)
July 12th
Lea Farm Lake – 6 Green Sandpiper in the south west corner (FJC); Common Sandpiper, 2 Little-ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 2 Teal (Nick Kightley); 5 Teal two in the north east corner, 200+ Mixed hirundines high over landfill mainly Sand Martins (Michael Hubbard)
Oystercatcher at Lea Farm Lake – Geoff Emmett
July 10th
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Green Sandpipers, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper in the south west corner (Peter Scudamore)
July 9th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, Teal female in the south west corner (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Common Sandpiper (Geof Slocombe); 3 Shoveler on the Tern scrape, Gadwall (FJC)
Common Sandpiper at Lavell’s Lake – Geof Slocombe
July 8th
Lea Farm Lake – Little-ringed Plover in front of Ron’s hide, Many fledged Black-headed Gull chicks (FJC); 5 Green Sandpiper with four in the south west corner and one on the north east shoreline, 2 Teal, 6 Gadwall, Buzzard sitting on a far fence post eating it’s dinner (Michael Hubbard)
July 6th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper (Alan Jackman); Little Egret in the north east corner (Michael Hubbard)
Lavell’s Lake – Common Sandpiper seen from Bittern hide (Alan Jackman)
Common Sandpiper at Lavell’s Lake – Alan Jackman
July 5th
Lea Farm Lake – Skylark singing over the landfill, Linnet over (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Common Sandpiper on the Bund (Tim James)
July 4th
Lea Farm Lake – Ringed Plover heard as I got in my car after leaving the north east corner (FJC); 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little-ringed Plover both seen in the south west corner (Peter Scudamore)
Lavell’s Lake – 19 Lapwing nine adults and 10 juveniles (Ben Knowles); 2 Kingfisher seen from the Bittern hide (Dave Toney); Teal, Shoveler both asleep on the Bund (Peter Scudamore)
July 3rd
Lea Farm Lake – 23+ Gadwall heading north (FJC)
July 2nd
Lea Farm Lake – Curlew just flew south quite low, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank in the south west corner, 4 Little-ringed Plover in the north east corner, Shoveler male, 2 Gadwall (FJC)
July 1st
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank one a juvenile, 2 Little-ringed Plover, 2 Little Egret, Shoveler (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Reed Warbler with young on path to Bittern hide, Reed Bunting, Raven high over Teal hide (Nick Kightley)
Green Sandpiper at Lea Farm Lake – Geoff Emmett
2 Redshank at Lea Farm Lake – Geoff Emmett
