Swithland - Wanlip

May 5, 2001

Highlights: Common terns at Swithland and Yellow Wagatil at Wanlip. The wagtails in splendid bright colours in last sun light of the day! All other observations made around Swithland unless explicitly said so.

Dry, not to windy spring day.

  1. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
  2. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
  3. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
  4. Canada Goose Branta canadensis: at Wanlip
  5. Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
  6. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  7. Common Pochard Aythya ferina
  8. Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
  9. Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
  10. Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
  11. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
  12. Common Coot Fulica atra
  13. Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius: 1 ex at Wanlip:
  14. Common Redshank Tringa totanus: 6 ex at Wanlip
  15. Common Tern Sterna hirundo: 6 ex at Swithland reservoir
  16. Stock Pigeon Columba oenas
  17. Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
  18. Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
  19. Green Woodpecker Picus viridis
  20. Sky Lark Alauda arvensis: at Rothley
  21. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
  22. Sand Martin Riparia riparia: 10 or so at Wanlip
  23. Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava: English Yellow Wagtail at Wanlip: 6 ex flavissima.
  24. White / Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba
  25. Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
  26. Hedge Accentor Prunella modularis
  27. European Robin Erithacus rubecula
  28. Common Blackbird Turdus merula
  29. Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
  30. Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
  31. Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
  32. Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis
  33. Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
  34. Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
  35. Goldcrest Regulus regulus
  36. Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
  37. Blue Tit Parus caeruleus
  38. Great Tit Parus major
  39. Coal Tit Parus ater
  40. Black-billed Magpie Pica pica
  41. Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula
  42. Rook Corvus frugilegus
  43. Carrion Crow Corvus corone
  44. Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
  45. House Sparrow Passer domesticus
  46. Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
  47. European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris
  48. European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
  49. Common Linnet Carduelis cannabina

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)