Watermead Park

March 11, 2001

Rainy and cold visit of Birstall Gravel Pit.

Watermead Park can be reached can be reached by bus 66 to Birstall (2 connections per hour on Saturday, 1 connection on Sunday) from Leicester or bus 104/105 to Loughborough via Thurmaston.

Highlights: Redshanks together with Goldeneyes.

  1. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus: 2 ex
  2. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea: 2 ex
  3. Canada Goose Branta canadensis
  4. Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope: 25 ex
  5. Eurasian Teal Anas crecca: 2 ex
  6. Common Pochard Aythya ferina
  7. Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula:
  8. Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula: 2 female, 1 male
  9. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus : 20 ex
  10. Common Coot Fulica atra
  11. Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
  12. Common Redshank Tringa totanus: 8 ex
  13. Redwing Turdus iliacus: 20 ex.
  14. Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris

Fer-Jan de Vries

Nomenclature follows Voous’s List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species (BOU 1977, revised edition). English names are as in BOU Checklist of Birds of Britain and Ireland (6th Edition, 1992)