Seat Naze

• stock dove - 2
• skylark - 8
• pied wagtail - 1
• meadow pipit - 2
• song thrush - singing bird
• fieldfare - min 20
• chiffchaff - 2 singing birds
• magpie - 3
• jackdaw - 3
• carrion crow - min 28 feeding in manured field
• linnet flock of 4

Edge Cote

• mallard - 1pr
• pheasant - male and 2 calling birds
• snipe - 28
• jack snipe - 1
• woodpigeon - 3
• skylark - 10
• pied wagtail - 1
• meadow pipit - c18
• robin - 1
• blackbird - 4
• goldcrest - 3 singing birds
• coal tit - 6
• blue tit - 1
• chaffinch - 2 singing birds
• greenfinch - 1
• reed bunting - male & female

Hurst Lane/ Chapel Hill Quarry

• kestrel - 1pr
• stock dove - 2
• goldcrest - 1
• starling - c30
• greenfinch - c4

Shortclough Res area

• Little grebe - 2
• Canada goose - 16
• mallard - 1pr & a male
• teal - 1pr
• moorhen - 4
• nuthatch - 3 birds trilling in the area
• treecreeper - 1 in small stand of trees off Heightside Lane

Clowbridge Res

• great crested grebe - 2
• whooper swan - 4 (thanks Nige)
• Canada goose - 12
• cormorant - 1
• mallard - 1pr & a male
• pheasant - calling bird behind the boathouse
• lapwing - 8 in the field behind Point Wood
• curlew - 2 in the field behind Point Wood
• common gull - c10
• herring gull - 1
• lesser black-backed gull - 6
• woodpigeon - 6
• skylark - 2 singing
• grey wagtail - male feeding on shoreline
• pied wagtail - 1
• meadow pipit - flock of 5
• long-tailed tit -1pr near Limy water & another in the car park carrying a feather
• wren - 1
• stonechat - male behind back pond
• song thrush - 1pr near the car park
• mistle thrush - singing bird
• starling - c20
• carrion crow - 8
• chaffinch - singing bird
• greenfinch - heard near Cotton Row
• goldfinch - 1 pair
• house sparrow - 4
• reed bunting - 1pr in North Bay & a male with another bird near the boathouse

Greenfold

• lapwing - 12
• golden plover - min 264,count from photo. 
• buzzard - 1pr
• kestrel - 2
• common gull - 4, including 1 bird carrying something small in it's beak, which it repeatedly dropped and then swooped down to catch
• stock dove - 2
• skylark - 3
• stonechat - singing male
• mistle thrush - singing bird
• long-tailed tit - 1
• nuthatch - 1 at Bottomley Bank Farm
• starling - min 60

cheers Kevin