June 30th
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Lapwing three chicks feeding around area of the nest with an adult ‘on guard’ (Trevor Guyatt)
Lavell’s Lake – Red-breasted Goose in front of Bittern hide (Gethin Craig)
Sandford Lake – Oystercatcher chick on one of the island (Alan Jackman)
Red-brested Goose at Lavell’s Lake – Gethin Craig
June 29th
Lea Farm Lake – Little Grebe juvenile second day here in the north west bay, 25 Common Tern 14 adults and 11 chicks with some still sitting, Shoveler in eclipse, 33 Lapwing including an adult with three chicks, 2 Gadwall, Skylark over far Landfill (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Red-breasted Goose, Kingfisher (Steve Clarke)
June 28th
Lea Farm Lake – Oystercatcher in front of Renton’s screen, Green Sandpiper in front of Renton’s, Great Spotted Woodpecker on the feeder’s on the feeders, 2 Reed Warbler in the reed’s in front of Ron’s hide (Pete Lunn); Great Spotted Woodpecker juvenile on the peanut feeder, 2 Ringed-necked Parakeet, 14 Common Tern chicks on the raft, 2 Common Tern adults still sitting, Little Egret in the north east corner, 12+ House Martin feeding around Renton’s screen and the north west bay, 2 Red Kite near fully grown juvenile’s on nest in a Weeping Willow on the west bank just north of the Green bridge (Trevor Guyatt)
Lavell’s Lake – Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Red-breasted Goose possible feral far left hand corner (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 3 Oystercatcher including a visible chick with possibly another under parent (FJC); 2 Oystercatcher chicks now visible from hide (Philip Giles)
Lapwing Chick at Lea Farm Lake – Philip Giles
June 27th
Lea Farm Lake – 13 Common Tern chicks on the raft, Shoveler male going into eclipse in the south west corner, Little Grebe juvenile in the north west corner, 5 Gadwall, 30 Lapwing including the sitting bird in the south west corner (FJC)
Lavell’s Lake – 4 Green Sandpiper on the scrape, Red-breasted Goose on bund (Dave Rimes)
June 26th
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Lapwing, Oystercatcher (Dave Rimes); Kingfisher near Bittern hide (Philip Giles); 3 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover all from Bittern hide (Chris Conry)
June 25th
Lea Farm Lake – Whitethroat, Garden Warbler both singing just passed Renton’s screen, Lapwing still sitting on nest (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Green Sandpiper on the scrape (Philip Giles)
Sandford Lake – 2 Oystercatcher chasing Gull’s on one of the islands, Common Sandpiper on the same island (Nick Kightley)
June 24th
Lea Farm Lake – 40+ Canada Geese there is an adult Red-breasted Goose with a small yellow ring on its right leg seen on the grass lawn on the west bank of the Loddon just south of the Green bridge (Trevor Guyatt)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Green Sandpiper on the scrape, Common Sandpiper (Philip Giles); 2 Little Ringed Plover on the Tern scrape (Trevor Guyatt)
Mortimer’s Meadow – Peregrine female spooked a Red Kite (Steve Clarke)
June 23rd
Lea Farm Lake – 3 Little Ringed Plover, 9+ Common Tern chick’s, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher (Brian Bennett); Common Sandpiper in the south west corner (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 3 Oystercatcher including a very small chick, 3 Little Ringed Plover on the island, 30+ Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull (Peter Scudamore)
June 22nd
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper (Marek Walford); Blackcap singing along path between hides, Garden Warbler singing (Paul Etherton)
June 21st
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Little Ringed Plover in the south west corner, 6 Lapwing, Kingfisher on the Green bridge on the way to the hide, Oystercatcher in the north west bay (Steve Clarke); 10 Common Tern chick’s on the raft (Philip Giles)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper, Whitethroat behind Bittern hide, Garden Warbler on path to Bittern hide (Steve Clarke); 2 Little Egret on the small middle island, Green Sandpiper feeding on Tern scrape now lying down on the bund, 2 Black-headed Gull both juvenile’s (Trevor Guyatt)
White Swan Lake – 2 Reed Warbler near Loddon fishing Peg 21 (Pete Lunn)
June 20th
Lea Farm Lake – Little Ringed Plover (Adam Wigley)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper on the scrape, 2 Whitethroat singing behind the hide, 2 Kingfisher one sat on a post the other flying around the lake (Dave Rimes); 5 Reed Warbler one near Teal hide the others near Bittern hide (Adam Wigley)
Black Swan Lake – 3 Grey Wagtail adult with two juveniles on the left side jetty, 2 Pied Wagtail on the beach both in front of the Activity Centre (Tim James)
June 19th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Little Ringed Plover, Lapwing sitting again, 5 Common Tern chicks, Whitethroat at Green bridge (Nick Kightley); Oystercatcher in front of Renton’s screen (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Lake – 3 Lapwing but no sitting on nest or sign of any chicks, Oystercatcher (Peter Scudamore)
June 18th
Lea Farm Lake – Redshank flight call at around early evening just north of the lake (Suren Akkaraju)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper in scrape on the right as you look out of the front of the Bittern hide (Katherine Plank)
June 17th
Lea Farm Lake – Redshank in front of Renton’s screen, Oystercatcher in front of Renton’s screen (Sally Bryson-Bond); Green Sandpiper seen from Renton’s screen (Mick Hannington); 2 Little Ringed Plover one agitated and flying a lot, 2 Kingfisher chasing each other west of Ron’s hide (Roger Powell)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper in front of Bittern hide, Little Egret (Roger Powell)
June 16th
Lea Farm Lake – Green Sandpiper to the right of Renton’s screen (Tim James); 2 Little Ringed Plover, Peregrine over high south east to north east, Whitethroat singing across river from Renton’s (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Whitethroat to the right of Bittern hide, Reed Bunting singing at Teal hide (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – 2 Oystercatcher (Nick Kightley)
Aviation Museum – Mistle Thrush landed on fence post between Museum and Air Cadets building then flew towards Mill (FJC)
June 15th
Lea Farm Lake – 4 Little Ringed Plover two in the south west corner and two on the north east shore, Kingfisher flew around the south west corner, 8 Gadwall, Grey Wagtail, Lapwing still on nest (FJC); Oystercatcher on the right side of Renton Screen (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Lake – Green Sandpiper on Bund (Tim James); 2 Kingfishers just behind the Great Crested Grebe’s nest seen from Bittern hide (Philip Giles)
June 14th
Lea Farm Lake – 6 House Martin collecting mud in the south west corner, 2 Little Ringed Plover male and female, Lapwing sitting still with three eggs, 13 Common Tern seven sitting with at least four chicks an additional pair mating on the old shingle island (FJC); Grey Wagtail in the south west corner, Garden Warbler calling next to the gate to Ron’s hide (Philip Giles); 31 Lapwing including one on nest, 2 Little Egret (Peter Scudamore)
Lavell’s Lake – Lapwing still sitting on bund, 3 Gadwall (FJC)
Sandford Lake – 36 Gadwall, Wigeon, 3 Little Egret, 2 Oystercatcher on shingle island (FJC)
June 13th
Lea Farm Lake – Little Egret in front of the right side perch (Pete Lunn); Little Ringed Plover in the south west corner (Alan Jackman)
June 12th
Sandford Lake – 2 Oystercatcher on island in front of the hide (Philip Giles)
June 11th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Little Ringed Plover, Lapwing still sitting? (Nick Kightley)
June 9th
Lavell’s Lake – Sedge Warbler calling from screen behind Bittern hide, Garden Warbler behind Bittern hide, Whitethroat (Philip Giles); Garden Warbler singing from bramble near the Owl box, 2 Reed Warbler from reed bed on path to Bittern hide, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Cetti’s Warbler, Reed Bunting singing from reeds behind the Bund, Hobby over being mobbed by a Jackdaw (Michael Hubbard)
June 8th
Lea Farm Lake – 17 Lapwing including a rare breeding attempt in the south west corner, 10 Gadwall, Oystercatcher, 8 Mute Swan two adults with six cygnets, 2 Cuckoo flew low towards Lodge Wood, 3 Pied Wagtail all juveniles, Grey Wagtail juvenile, House Sparrow female, Kingfisher along the Loddon and once over far end of lake, 3 Little Ringed Plover two in the south west corner one in the north east corner (FJC); House Sparrow male in front of Ron’s hide (Paul O’Neill); Buzzard on the fence line on the right side (Pete Lunn)
Lavell’s Lake – 2 Lapwing one sitting on the Bund got up and other Lapwing flew over and settled in same spot so looks like they are trying to breed here, 3 Kingfisher in bush behind Great Crested Grebes nest (Peter Scudamore)
Sandford Lake – 23 Gadwall, 7 Mute Swan two adults with five cygnets (FJC)
June 7th
Lavell’s Lake – Sedge Warbler to the right of the Bittern hide (Tim James)
June 6th
Lea Farm Lake – 2 Kingfisher one flew right in front of Ron’s hide with an earlier one that also flew upstream by Green bridge, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher in the south west bay, Numerous House Martin collecting mud, 7 Common Tern sitting on raft, 8 Mute Swan two adults with 6 cygnets, Mandarin Duck male on central spit, Cuckoo calling from beyond Lodge Wood (Michael Hubbard)
Sandford Lake – Wigeon male, 12 Gadwall, Oystercatcher on the main island (Michael Hubbard)
June 5th
Lea Farm Lake – 5+ Treecreeper near the Green bridge in a family group, 3 Little Ringed Plover in the south west corner, 2 Oystercatcher, Kingfisher (Nick Kightley)
Lavell’s Lake – Skylark singing over the Landfill visible from Teal hide (Nick Kightley)
Sandford Lake – Wigeon (Nick Kightley)
June 4th
Lea Farm Lake – Mandarin Duck on the shingle island (Philip Giles); 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker on the feeder’s , 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Pete Lunn)
June 2nd
Lea Farm Lake – Mandarin Duck, Oystercatcher, 2 Swift flying, Sand Martin flying but not stopping at the Sand Martin Wall, 2 Cormorant (Roger Powell)
June 1st
Lea Farm Lake – 12 Common Tern on the raft, 2 Swift overhead, House Martin collecting mud, Sand Martin entering the wall, 4 Lapwing (Steve Clarke)
