Spring Mill Res

• great crested grebe - 1pr
• cormorant - 1
• whooper swan - 4 (almost certainly the same 4 birds that were seen flying north over Lee Quarry later in the afternoon)
• Canada goose - 2pr
• mallard - 1pr
• goosander - 4 males & 3 females
• oystercatcher - 1pr
• curlew - 1
• black-headed gull - 3 
• lesser black-backed gull - 2
• buzzard - min 2
• sparrowhawk - male seen diving into juncus
• kestrel - 1pr
• green woodpecker - yaffling bird
• great spotted woodpecker - 1 over to Fern Isle Wood
• stock dove - 1pr
• woodpigeon - 5
• stonechat - 2prs
• fieldfare - 6
• magpie - 11
• raven - 1 on sheep carcass
• carrion crow - 6
• jackdaw - 12
• wren - 4
• starling - c20
• reed bunting - 4

also noted today

1pr coot at Wallbank Lodge

2 chiffchaff singing & a great spotted woodpecker drumming at Eastgate Woods

6 common gull & 3 goldcrest singing at Cowm Res

4 lapwings in Whitworth Quarry

flock of c30 meadow pipits at Lee Quarry