Please report your sightings to Neil Randon at neil.randon@googlemail.com.
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Sun, 31 August, 2014: 07.50hrs-10.45hrs: 166 GREYLAG GEESE (Spynes), c62 CANADA GEESE (incl c60 Spynes), c5 EGYPTIAN GEESE (WC), c4 GADWALL (SE corner of WC1), c4 SHOVELER (Spynes), c6 TEAL (c2 Spynes, c4 Moors Pools near wooden bridge), 1 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (WC1), 2 COMMON BUZZARD (S of Spynes), 2 KESTREL (over landfill), 2 LITTLE OWL (1 M.Farm, 1 Nutfield Marsh), 1 MEADOW PIPIT (over Nutfield March), 4 BLACKCAP (2m & 2 juv/f drinking from puddle M.Farm Cottages), c8 GOLDFINCH (incl c4 juv's). Ian Kehl and Gordon Hay
Sat, 9 August 2014-Sat, 30 August 2014: no reported sightings
Fri, 8 August 2014: Butterfly sightings: 1m CLOUDED YELLOW, 1 SMALL COPPER, 6 COMMON BLUE. (W/C Mound). Matt Farmer
Wed, 6 August 2014-Thurs, 7 August 2014: no reported sightings
Tues, 5 August 2014: Butterfly sightings: 1 PURPLE HAIRSTREAK (by the railway tunnel that leads from Holmethorpe Industrial Estate to The Moors. Female flying on Moors side). Matt Farmer
Mon, 4 August 2014: no reported sightings
Sun, 3 August 2014: Butterfly sightings: 1m CLOUDED YELLOW, 1 PAINTED LADY, 1 MARBLED WHITE, 4 ESSEX SKIPPER, 3 SMALL SKIPPER, 5 COMMON BLUE, 1 COMMA, 2 SMALL TORTOISESHELL, 1 PEACOCK, 1 SPECKLED WOOD, 3 RINGLET, also numerous LARGE WHITE, SMALL WHITE + GATEKEEPER. (All W/C Mound). Matt Farmer
05.50hrs-08.45hrs: 1
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER (juv on WC2 Island), c6 EGYPTIAN GEESE (WC2), 40 TUFTED DUCK (incl. 1 female with 1 small duckling,
Spynes, 1 female with 1 small duckling Spynes Bullrush pond, and 1
female with 7 small ducklings WC1), 5 TEAL (4
Spynes, 1 Moors Pools near wooden bridge), c2 LESSER WHITETHROAT (1 S of Spynes, 1 S of Middle Pit), c20 COMMON WHITEHROAT (majority juvs), c10 CHIFFCHAFF, 1 GREY WAGTAIL (juv on WC2 Island), 1 MISTLE
THRUSH (juv Nutfield Marsh), 1 LITTLE OWL (M.Farm), c3 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
(adult male with 2 juvs dead tree Chilmead Lane), 1 GREEN WOODPECKER
(juv in dead tree Chilmead Lane), c20 COMMON SWIFT (WC), 2 SWALLOW (1
on wires Chilmead Lane, 1 over WC Mound), c10
HOUSE MARTIN (WC), 1 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (M.Lake), c200 ROSE
RINGED PARAKEET. Ian Kehl and Gordon Hay
Fri, 1 August 2014-Sat, 2 August 2014: no reported sightings
