Quorn - Swithland, May 13, 2001

May 13, 2001

First warm summer day with at the end of the day a threat of an approaching thunderstorm.

Highlights: the five black terns and the two common sandpipers on Swithland reservoir. Plus the discovery of the Quorn quaries where one can freely walk despite Food and Mouth. The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was heard there, near the main office entrance not far from the overpass/gorge where one can listen to many songbirds. Stockdoves may breed on the rocky cliffs of quaries, and the Sand Martins found a sand cliff. Possibly 40-50 nests.

Quorn can be reached on Sundays by bus 121 and 125 as well as by steam train.

Location of observations is Swithland reservoir unless explicitly mentioned Quorn.

  1. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
  2. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
  3. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
  4. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
  5. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  6. Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
  7. Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
  8. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
  9. Common Coot Fulica atra
  10. Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos: 2 ex on dam of Swithland reservoir and floating island.
  11. Mew Gull Larus canus: 2 ex passing by
  12. Common Tern Sterna hirundo: 1 ex with fish on floating island.
  13. Black Tern Chlidonias niger: 5 ex flying around.
  14. Stock Pigeon Columba oenas: Quorn and Swithland.
  15. Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
  16. Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
  17. Common Swift Apus apus: Quorn and Swithland
  18. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor: Quorn 1 ex drumming.
  19. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
  20. Sand Martin Riparia riparia: Quorn
  21. Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
  22. Hedge Accentor Prunella modularis
  23. European Robin Erithacus rubecula
  24. Common Blackbird Turdus merula
  25. Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
  26. Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus: 2 ex singing
  27. Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
  28. Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca
  29. Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis: Quorn
  30. Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
  31. Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
  32. Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
  33. Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
  34. Marsh Tit Parus palustris
  35. Great Tit Parus major
  36. Coal Tit Parus ater
  37. Wood Nuthatch Sitta europaea: Quorn
  38. Black-billed Magpie Pica pica
  39. Carrion Crow Corvus corone
  40. Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
  41. Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
  42. European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris
  43. Common Linnet Carduelis cannabina
  44. Common Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
  45. Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus: 1 ex singing

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)