Box End Park WeBS: 15/05/2011

Canada Goose 1 (Also 1 dead by the spit.)
Common Sandpiper 1
Common Tern 20
Cormorant 3
Great Crested Grebe 2
Greylag Goose 2
Lapwing 4
Mallard 35 (5 with broods of 6,7,2,3 3 ducklings.)
Moorhen 1
Mute Swan 8 (1 on nest.)
Oystercatcher 3
Pied/White Wagtail 1
Skylark Present

Total number of species: 13 Individuals: 81

Also noted: Whitethroat 2, Swallows 3, Blackcap 8, Chiffchaff 5, Stock Dove 1, Reed Warbler 2, Sedge Warbler 4, Sand Martin 1, Swift 6 and House Martin 3.

Box End Park WeBS: 17/04/2011

New for the site this moring was an Egyptian Goose.

Buzzard 1
Canada Goose 4
Common Tern 11
Cormorant 1
Egyptian Goose 1
Great Crested Grebe 3
Little Ringed Plover 2
Mallard 29 (Groups of 7,5,4,7 and 3 ducklings.)
Mandarin Duck 2
Mute Swan 1 (On nest.)
Oystercatcher 2
Pied/White Wagtail 1
Skylark Present
Total number of species: 13 Individuals: 58

Also noted this morning were 5 Blackcaps, 3 Sedge Warblers, 3 Chiffchaffs, 1 Whitethroat and 1 Swallow. Lapwings were showing across the bypass and another passed over very high.

Box End Park WeBS: 13/03/2011

Surprised and delighted to see an Otter hunting at the south end of the lake when I arrived at the park this morning. The 2 Oystercatchers were present again this month but no Lapwings. I may have missed the Lapwings, if they are still roosting in the park, as it was already light when I arrived. A number of Lapwings were displaying on the other side of the bypass, where they nested last year, 2 made a fly over visit. Other flyover visitors were 2 Canada Geese and 5 Greylag Geese. The rest of the counts were as follows:

Black-headed Gull 10
Common Gull 1 (1st winter)
Cormorant 1
Great Crested Grebe 5
Green Sandpiper 1
Kingfisher 1
Mallard 28
Meadow Pipit Present
Moorhen 1
Mute Swan 2
Oystercatcher 2
Pied/White Wagtail 1
Pochard 5 (3 males and 2 females)
Skylark Present

Total number of species: 14 Individuals: 58