| 2010-03-15 | Of note: Pink-footed Goose (1), Barnacle Goose (41), Wigeon (pr), Oystercatcher (3), Lapwing (11), Redshank (1), Song Thrush (1) and Goldfinch (10). | Ray and Margaret Perry |
| 2010-03-15 | Ring-billed Gull, first winter. A little smaller than the Lesser Black-backeds and a paler mantle than the obviously smaller Commons. Very heavily blotched underparts and back of the neck, heavily streaked head. Bill, eye, legs and upper wing good for the species. I am sure of the identification , but would like confirmation.
Also an adult Great Northern Diver.
| Paul Mollatt |
| 2010-03-14 | 2 Snipe,2 Oystercatchers,1 Redshank,1 G.N.Diver from Wildlife Centre Reed bunting and Willow tit on feeding station | Pete Furniss |
| 2010-03-14 | WeBS count for March: Mute Swan 7, Pink-foot Goose 1, Canada Goose 102, Barnacle Goose 46, Wigeon 23, Gadwall 3, Teal 9, Mallard 59, Pintail 1, Tufted Duck 325, Goldeneye 14, Great Northern Diver 1, Little Grebe 25, Great Crested Grebe 35, Cormorant 14, Grey Heron 3, Sparrowhawk 2, Buzzard 8 (6 at once over Hall Wood), Kestrel 1, Moorhen 8, Coot 247, Oystercatcher 7, Lapwing 8, Curlew 10, Redshank 4 | Peter Gibbon and John Bradley |
| 2010-03-14 | All from Sheepwash hide 10:50 - 11:50, 7 oystercatchers, 5 curlew, 7 goldeneye, 1 Great Northern Diver off Fishtail Creek | Martin Kaye |
| 2010-03-14 | 3 Oystercatcher in field between water and footpath close to Sheepwash Car Park. Early afternoon. | David Meredith |
| 2010-03-10 | Of note: Pink-footed Goose (1) - feeding with Canadas on Stones Island, Barnacle Goose (39) - on the Sailing Club Island, Common Buzzard (1), Kestrel (1), Pheasant (a pr), Oystercatcher (4), Dunlin (2) - Horseshoe Island, Redshank (1), Yellow-legged Gull (1) - seen from the Wildlife Centre, Pied Wagtail (~10), Song Thrush (1) and an over-wintering Blackcap in trees near the Wildlife Centre. | Ray and Margaret Perry |
| 2010-03-10 | Sheepwash.. 1 GN Diver,48 Wigeon and 18 Goldeneye.
Wildlife centre.. adult Mediterranean Gull at 16:20 until 17:05 when flushed to middle of res. | Clive Ashton |
| 2010-03-08 | Oystercatcher 1each from Paul Stanley, Sheepwash and Wildlife Centre Hides. G N Diver, 4 Curlew, 24 Whooper Swan, Raven(heard),Redshank seen from Sheepwash Hide.
Willow Tit,Tree Sparrow,Bullfinch & Reed Bunting at Feeding Station between Sheepwash and Wildlife Centre.
Water Rail & @ 50 Barnacle Goose from Wildlife Centre.
Little Owl seen in field to right of track from Wildlife Centre to Car ParK | Philip Burnham c/o Netherfield wildlife Group, Nottingham |
| 2010-03-08 | 24 Whooper swans 1 Pink footed goose I Snipe 3 Redshank from wildlife centre swans still there at 4-00pm | Pete Furniss |
| 2010-03-08 | 6 Snipe in flight Warrington Knob
1 Redshank just Sth of Oldfield Lane holiday lets | dave williams |
| 2010-03-08 | One kingfisher along stream leading into Brownale Bay. | dave williams |
| 2010-03-07 | 24 Whooper Swans flew in at 09:30 and were still present when I left site at 10:30.
Also present 1 Dunlin on Stones Island,1 GN Diver and 4 Curlew. | Clive Ashton |
| 2010-03-03 | Garganey | Dermot Smyth |
| 2010-03-02 | Large area of the reservoir frozen over today, but an interesting day all the same.3 Curlew on Sheepwash spit, 2 More flew east and later a flock of 7-8 flew over middle wood.2 GN Divers beyond Fishtail creek.Pintail(f) at Sheepwash. Scaup(f) at Wildlife centre. | Clive Ashton |
| 2010-03-01 | Fairly quiet on site today. Very few birders and walkers. We only managed 29 species from Stones Island to the end of Wildlife Centre Creek around midday. Weather was good, sunny and quite mild. Of note: Barnacle Goose (46) - Horseshoe Island (HI), Pheasant (1,m) - calling near the Wildlife centre (WC), Oystercatcher (2) - Stones Island, Lapwing (~120) - HI, Curlew (3) - overflying WC creek, Redshank (1) -HI, Robin - many singing. | Ray and Margaret Perry |
| 2010-02-28 | 10 Oystercatchers this morning - 2 on Big Island, 5 on Stones Is, 1 in front of Sailing Club and a pair mating on Millfields Is.
13 Goldeneye near dam wall. 2 Pochard at Millfields.
1 Skylark flying north.
2 Curlew flew east and 3 landed at Sheepwash.
At Sheepwash - drake Shoveler, drake Pintail, 48 Wigeon, juv Great Northern Diver.
In the air - 5 Buzzard, 2 Raven, Sparrow Hawk, Peregrine.
4 Song Thrush singing. | Roger Carrington |
| 2010-02-25 | 2 Great Northern Divers together from Sheepwash.
5 Shelduck flew north at Hopton end before returning a few minutes later,(with another or one of the same from Sheepwash later.)
2 Goosander towards Millfields, with probably several more on Millfields island.
No sign of Red necked Grebes at Hopton end.
2 Raven from Sheepwsh and an Oystercatcher on Big island. | Clive Ashton |
| 2010-02-23 | Since submitting WeBS count figures I am adding the following as seen by Roger Carrington later in the day. Great Crested Grebe will be 14,
an extra 3 Moorhen makes a total of 5 and he also saw 6 Wigeon.
Thank you Roger. | Peter Gibbon |
| 2010-02-23 | February WeBS count : 2 Great Northern Diver,4 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Red-necked Grebe, 22 Little Grebe, 6 Mute Swan,60 Canada Goose, 29 Cormorant, 6 Gadwall, 42 Teal,141 Mallard, 442 Tufted Duck, 19 Goldeneye, 2 Moorhen, 401 Coot, 4 Oystercatcher, 36 Lapwing,1 Woodcock(seen by Roger Carrington), 1 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine(seen by RC),1 Kestrel. | Peter Gibbon |
| 2010-02-23 | One Red-necked Grebe just south of Big Island watched between 16.00 and 16.30 on Sunday. It was viewed from the lower track at the bottom of Hall Wood and occasionally drifted round to the eastern side of the island. | Paul Bennett |
| 2010-02-23 | On arrival at Carsington yesterday I was shocked to see so much ice. I reckon around 80% of the water was frozen over. In all my years of going I have never seen it so bad. There was still several large pockets of water where the wildfowl had gathered and one such area was sheepwash. From here I had 11 Goldeneye, 6 Gadwall and many Teal, Wigeon and Tufted Ducks. Also seen was 7 Oystercatchers, 4 Snipe, 3 Redshank, 2 Grey Heros, 3 Buzzards, Sparrowhawk and Kestrel. As the day went on I eventually picked out the 2 Great Northern Divers towards Fishtail Creek. I also possibly had the 2 Red-necked Grebes briefly towards Hopton End. | Dave Newcombe |
| 2010-02-20 | 2 Red necked Grebes (Between Big and Flat Islands)
2 Great Northern Divers(Sheepwash)
5 Shoveler (4m 1f Sheepwash)
Oystercatcher (returning bird with bar code ring on Sheepwash spit) | Clive Ashton |
| 2010-02-19 | 1 Red-necked Grebe Hopton Arm. 1 Jack Snipe Hopton Arm near Reedbed area on mud at waters edge. Also sev' Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, Pochard and 2 plus Buzzard in the top end area. | Steph Hicking |
| 2010-02-17 | Very foggy on site around midday. Visibility at best 100m, therefore birding difficult. Low species count at 24. Of note: Lapwing (1), Redwing (1), Lesser Redpoll (10) - next to wildlife centre, and a pair of Bullfinches. | Ray and Margaret Perry |
| 2010-02-16 | Goldeneyes close in at Sheepwash
2 male 5 female. Courting calls and male displays very advanced! | Dave Farrer |
| 2010-02-16 | Red-necked Grebe at extreme end of Hopton arm.
50+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing,3 GS Woodpecker,2 Reed Bunting.
A Grey Heron was struggling to swallow the carcase of a gull at Sheepwash. | Clive Ashton |
| 2010-02-15 | Red-necked Grebe at Sheepwash at c13.20 heading towards Lane End. I went to Lane End and had quite good views before it then headed back towards Sheepwash. I then went back to Sheepwash only to watch it disappear behind the spit. Unfortunatley it couldn't be re-located despite several birders looking. After a bit of perseverance some birders located 2 adults in Hopton Arm at 17.00. Also on site today was 2 Great Northern Divers, 8 Goldeneye, female Goosander, Oystercatcher, Yellow-legged Gull, Sparrowhawk, 45 Cormorants and 2 Grey Herons. | Dave Newcombe |
| 2010-02-15 | 1 Redshankin creek left of Wildlife centre
1 M Goldeneye Shining Ford Creek
1 Red Necked Grebe off Lane end hide. | Bob and Gill Smith |
| 2010-02-11 | It was cold on site today with few visitors. We just worked from Stones Island to the Wildlife Centre. Nothing very unusual seen except for a high number of Magpies (15). We only found 23 species, all quite common but just as important and interesting to us. It was good to see various catkins and Daffodil shoots pushing up. Maybe Spring is on the way. Let's hope so. | Ray and Margaret Perry |
| 2010-02-11 | 3m + 1f Goldeneye, 1m Goosander and 1 Redshank.
Between Millfields and Holiday cottages. | Bob and Gill Smith |
| 2010-02-10 | 2 Great Northern Divers, 6 Buzzards, 2 Ravens, 2 Sparrowhawks, 2 Snipe, 2 Grey Herons and 43 Barnacle Geese. | Dave Newcombe/Clive Ashton |
| 2010-02-02 | 2 Great Northern Divers present, a juvenile off Stones Island and an adult behind Millfields Island.
3 Shoveler at WLC.
| Clive Ashton |
| 2010-02-01 | 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 |
| 2010-01-29 | 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. | Peter Gibbon and John Bradley |
| 2010-01-25 | 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. | Ray and Margaret Perry |
| 2010-01-20 | Great Northern Diver, female Scaup, female Peregrine, male Sparrowhawk, 2 Ravens, drake Goosander, Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Greylag Geese, 45 Barnacle Geese. | Dave Newcombe |
| 2010-01-19 | 4 Goosanders, 8 Goldeneye, 4 Snipe, Peregrine, Raven, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 6 Siskin and Skylark. | Dave Newcombe/Clive Ashton |
| 2010-01-19 | 3m + 1f Goldeneye Dam wall
4m Goosander Millfields island
2 small egrets Horseshoe Island | Bob and Gill Smith |
| 2010-01-19 | 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. | Roger Carrington |
| 2010-01-11 | 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 |
| 2010-01-07 | 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 |
| 2010-01-04 | 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 |
| 2010-01-01 | 1 Little Egret-Wildlife Centre near the fence that runs to the water on the left.
1 male Bullfinch-Wildlife Centre Feeders | Sam Pedley |
| 2009-12-31 | 2 Redshank from Stones Island. 3 Willow tits Millfields. | Richard and Frances Pittam |
| 2009-12-27 | Little Egret at Sheepwash at 3pm then went into the small creek to right of hide.
Adult Caspian Gull in roost from Sheepwash from 3:15pm.
Adult Great Northern Diver off Stones Island.
9 Goosander (5 males) on Millfields Island. | Roger Carrington |
| 2009-12-23 | Great Northern Diver, adult Yellow-legged Gull, female Pintail, 3 Lesser Redpolls, 31 Gadwall, 6 Goldeneye, Redshank, Snipe, 12 Song Thrush, Buzzard and Raven. | Dave Newcombe |
| 2009-12-16 | Of note: Scaup (female) - from wildlife centre. Also seen yesterday by another observer. Lapwing (~80) and Redshank (2). | Ray and Margaret Perry |
| 2009-12-14 | A quiet morning from the Wildlife Centre. Highlight was a visit from the Yellow-legged Gull. | Richard, Frances and Ken Pittam |
| 2009-12-10 | 2 Great Northern Divers, adult winter + juvenile.
44 Pinkfeet going northwest at 1205hrs.
1 adult winter Mediterranean Gull in roost from Sheepwash from 1430hrs. | Roger Carrington |
