The Flight Bit

Top Pool, Stanford Lodge. Little egret Mute swan Greylag goose 3 Canada goose Mallard min.4 Domestic duck 2 Coot Moorhen 2 Pheasant Red kite 2 Common tern 2 Woodpigeon Cuckoo Skylark Swallow Blackbird Song thrush Robin Great tit Long tailed tit 2 Starling Nuthatch Treecreeper Wren Reed warbler Chiffchaff Blackcap Common whitethroat Carrion crow min.2 Jackdaw w Chaffinch Goldfinch Linnet Reed bunting Muntjac

24 04 2025 Napton Reservoir NE corner big lake, late pm to dusk. Great crested grebe Little grebe Greylag goose min.8 (+5yng) Canada goose 16 Mallard (+1 yng) Tufted duck 2 Coot Moorhen Pheasant Curlew Woodpigeon Stock dove 2 Grey wagtail Pied wagtail 2 Swallow 5 Blackbird 3 Song thrush Robin Blue tit Wren Dunnock Reed warbler min3 Sedge warbler Chiffchaff Blackcap Carrion crow 2+ Rook 9 Chaffinch Reed bunting (Barn Owl at Tomlow) Noctule 2 Tench

Top Pool Stanford Lodge. Late p.m. Little egret Mute swan Greylag goose Canada goose Mallard Moorhen Pheasant Peregrine Woodpigeon Pied wagtail Swallow Blackbird Song thrush Robin Great tit Wren Nuthatch Chiffchaff Reed warbler Blackcap Raven Carrion crow Jackdaw Chaffinch Goldfinch (Barn Owl - Stanford Park) Brown rat Perch Rudd Tench 

19 04 2025 Napton Reservoir NE corner, Big lake, a.m. Great crested grebe Little grebe Mute swan Greylag goose 12 Canada goose Mallard Tufted duck 9 Coot Moorhen Lapwing 7 Common sandpiper Common gull Woodpigeon Skylark 2 Pied wagtail Swallow 4 Sand martin 3 Blue tit Wren Dunnock Blackcap Chiffchaff Reed warbler Common whitethroat Carrion crow Raven 2 Reed bunting Tench

Big lake, late pm. Great crested grebe Mute swan 2 Greylag goose Canada goose Mallard Tufted duck *Ferruginous duck 2 Coot Moorhen Snipe Curlew 2 Lapwing Indet gull Woodpigeon Pied wagtail Swallow 13 Sand martin 8 Blackbird Song thrush Robin Wren Chiffchaff Carrion crow Reed bunting Rabbit Tench (White stork seen just before I arrived but flew north and landed in field). Barn owl at Calcutt turn