Cropston reservoir

July 27, 2001

Warm, some wind and sunny. An afternoon visit by bike. Highlights.

  1. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
  2. Little Egret Egretta garzetta
    3. 1 specimen well hidden in vegetation of some tiny island below the Bradgate embankment. Later walking and fishing in the water.
  3. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
    4. more than 15 including young
  4. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
  5. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
  6. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  7. Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
    8. plus ducklings.
  8. Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
  9. Common Tern Sterna hirundo
    10. more than 5
  10. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
  11. White / Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba

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)