2 July 2009
CWP 125/126; from first light until 6am: 4 Oystercatchers roosting with 20 Lapwing on old silt beds, 140 Black-headed Gulls and 40 Lesser Black-backed Gulls roosting on lake 125, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little egrets. 16 Great Crested Grebe, 8 grey Heron, 49 Greylag Geese, 35 red-crested Pochard on 126. Singing Reed Bunting (2), Reed Warbler (15+), Sedge Warbler (2), Song Thrush (2). Gareth Harris
CWP68C : Lapwing 150 , Green Sandpiper 6 , Redshank, Oystercatcher 1 (male from Kent End feeding on exposed freshwater muscles before flying back with food in its bill back towards Kent End), Teal (drake eclipsed), Cettis Warbler one male in song and one bird calling by hide, Green Woodpecker 2, Swallow 100+ at dusk above reedbed Nigel Pleass
CWP 59 : Little Egret , Green Sandpiper 2 ( flew onto CWP68C) , Mute Swan with 2 cygnets Nigel Pleass
CWP68B : Mute Swan 51 , Tufted Duck 83 , Red Crested Pochard 42 , Coot 428 , Nigel Pleass
CWP 95 : Wood Sandpiper , Green Sandpiper , Gadwall female plus 4 well grown ducklings ,
Cettis Warbler male in song , Marbled White Nigel Pleass
Kent End : Ringed plover pair bird still sitting, Little Ringed Plover pair plus 3 small young and three adults, Oystercatcher pair and one chick , 40 Lapwing, Common Tern pair and chick, plus two adults Nigel Pleass