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| Current (2010) Year's Sightings - ( Add this page to your Favourites ) |
Sighting Date |
Sightings |
Comments/Observations |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | 2 Great Northern Divers present, a juvenile off Stones Island and an adult behind Millfields Island. 3 Shoveler at WLC. |
. | Clive Ashton | 02/02/2010 | 01-Feb-2010 | 1 Great Northern Diver off Stones Island. 46 feral Barnacle Geese on Stones Island. 1 drake Goosander on Millfields Island. 149 Lapwing on Sailing Club foreshore. 55 Teal and 1 female Shoveler from Sheepwash. |
. | Roger Carrington | 01/02/2010 | 25-Jan-2010 | Of note: Great Northern Diver (1) - off Horseshoe Island, Grey Heron (1) by Wildlife Centre Creek, Barnacle Goose (10) - flying with Canadas, Yellow-legged Gull (1) - by Wildlife Centre Creek eating a dead fish! Bullfinch (4; 3 males & one female) - near ranger base. | A Tittesworth Snippet: The latest Tittesworth site wildlife newsletter is available from the visitor centre reception. The bird sightings cover October to December 2009. | Ray and Margaret Perry | 25/01/2010 | 20-Jan-2010 | Great Northern Diver, female Scaup, female Peregrine, male Sparrowhawk, 2 Ravens, drake Goosander, Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Greylag Geese, 45 Barnacle Geese. | . | Dave Newcombe | 20/01/2010 | 18-Jan-2010 | 4 Goosanders, 8 Goldeneye, 4 Snipe, Peregrine, Raven, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 6 Siskin and Skylark. | . | Dave Newcombe/Clive Ashton | 19/01/2010 | 18-Jan-2010 | 3m + 1f Goldeneye Dam wall 4m Goosander Millfields island 2 small egrets Horseshoe Island |
. | Bob and Gill Smith | 19/01/2010 | 18-Jan-2010 | Great Northern Diver, juv, near Millfields, 1200hrs. Little Egret near Wildlife Centre. Adult Yellow-legged Gull eating a Little Grebe on shoreline in front of Sailing Club, left the carcase and skin with feathers floating on the water. 2 Skylark flying east. |
If you see this bird eating on site please send me any details, this is the third occasion of it eating a Little Grebe. | Roger Carrington | 19/01/2010 | 17-Jan-2010 | WeBS count for January: Mute Swan 28,Canada Goose 107,Wigeon 23(compared with 210 last Jan),Gadwal 36,Teal 49,Mallard 122,Pochard 134,Tufted Duck 596,Scaup 1, Goldeneye 12, Goosander 3,Great Northern Diver 1,Little Grebe 46,Great Crested Grebe 45,Cormorant 31,Grey Heron 3,Moorhen 11,Coot 1424,Lapwing 7,Snipe 2,Black-headed Gull 7,Common Gull 19,Lesser Black-backed Gull 27,Yellow-legged Gull 1. | Virtually all these numbers are well down on 18/01/2009.Quite incredibly the number of Mallard counted last year was 122 as well.Sorry for posting these so late on the web page. | Peter Gibbon and John Bradley | 29/01/2010 | 11-Jan-2010 | Female Scaup, female Pintail, Yellow-legged Gull, Little Egret, Raven, c40 Siskin, 7 Goldeneye, 3 Redshank, 2 Snipe, 6 Bullfinch and 2 Grey Heron. | . | Dave Newcombe | 11/01/2010 | 06-Jan-2010 | Juvenile Great Northern Diver off Stones Island, Yellow-legged Gull at Sheepwash, 8 Goldeneye, 18 Gadwall, Skylark, 10 Siskin, female Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Raven. | . | Dave Newcombe | 07/01/2010 | 04-Jan-2010 | Juv Great Northern Diver near Watersports Island. Little Egret near Wildlife Centre until 1100hrs when it flew over dam and probably landed. 25 Barnacle Geese on Horseshoe Island. 35 Siskin by path to P S Hide. |
. | Roger Carrington | 04/01/2010 | 01-Jan-2010 | 1 Little Egret-Wildlife Centre near the fence that runs to the water on the left. 1 male Bullfinch-Wildlife Centre Feeders |
. | Sam Pedley | 01/01/2010 |
