24th January 2009

8.00am - 11.30am and 2.00 - 4.30pm
Highlights:
Gullwatch 8-8.30am
33+ Cormorants on lake

Several Siskins in Sewage works plantation
Snipe - flushed from small pond near bramble meadow

(11.30am - 2pm - Successful trip to see the excellent Snow Bunting at Brogborough Landfill and unsuccessful attempt to see Bean Geese at Cainhoe)

2.30pm - 4.30pm
c. 6 Wigeon on the access track pond
The usual ducks on the Pillinge

Gullwatch (3.30 -4.30pm)
Adult Med Gull
(Steve Blain had a Raven fly over the A421 from the direction of Stewartby Tip)

Snow Bunting - Brilliant bird, unfortunately at Brogorough Landfill site rather than MVCP....

A couple of record shots of the adult Med Gull on Stewartby Lake gull roos this afternoon.

(MVCP Year-list: Still 65)

2nd January 2009

Gull watch 3.15-4.20pm
Highlights:
Adult Med Gull
Adult and 4th Winter Yellow-legged Gull
Adult Caspian Gull

(MVCP Year-list: 65 - Med, Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls added)

1st January 2009

(8.05am - 2.45pm and 3.10 - 4.20pm)

Daylisting for the start of the New Year - A total of 6o species seen with two additional species (Green Woodpecker and Goldcrest) heard only.

Highlights:
Water Rail - Marston corner and gullwatch
Pair of Stonechat - Setaside field behind sewage works
Bullfinch - Marston corner and Pillinge
1+ Lesser Redpoll with c.10 Siskin - Sewage works plantation (Further Siskins seen between wetlands and railway)
Scaup, Red-crested Pochard and Grey Wagtail - Sailing club bank of Stewartby Lake (Grey Wagtail also seen in Marston corner)
Sparrowhawk and Kestrel - Gullwatch
Lesser Redpoll with Siskins at sewage works plantation
Siskin - Between wetlands and railway

Full MVCP / Stewartby Lake Daylist:

Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Cormorant
Grey Heron
Mute Swan
Greylag Goose
Canada Goose
Wigeon
Gadwall
Teal
Mallard
Shoveler
Red-crested Pochard (Near Stewartby Lake Sailing clubhouse)
Pochard
Tufted Duck
Scaup (Near Stewartby Lake Sailing clubhouse)
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Pheasant
Water Rail (2 are showing quite frequently at the Marston Corner stream inlet to Stewartby Lake, and another was seen at the gullwatch)
Moorhen
Coot
Lapwing
Snipe
Redshank (The Pillinge and near Stewartby Lake Sailing clubhouse)
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Feral Pigeon
Woodpigeon
Kingfisher
Green Woodpecker (Heard only)
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Grey Wagtail (Sewage works area and the near Stewartby Lake Sailing clubhouse)
Pied Wagtail
Wren
Dunnock
Robin
Stonechat (2 in setaside field behind sewage works)
Blackbird
Fieldfare
Song Thrush
Redwing
Goldcrest (Heard only)
Long-tailed Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Jay
Magpie
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Starling
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Siskin (Several groups around, most often in the sewage works plantation or in the ditch between the scrapyard corner and the gullwatch)
Lesser Redpoll (Sewage works plantation)
Bullfinch (around the Marston corner and the Pillinge)
Reed Bunting