Groby - Swithland -Watermead

August 5, 2001

Biketrip: Groby Pool, Bradgate Park, Cropston (no Egret), Swithland, Watermead Park. Nice weather not too hot, little wind, sunny and clear air, sowewhat cloudy sky. Below an incomplete list:

  1. Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
    2. S
  2. Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
    3. Wanlip scrape More than 300. Roost or pre-roost at 20 minutes before sunset?
  3. Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
    4. Wanlip scrape: 1 ex.
  4. Common Tern Sterna hirundo
    5. C & S
  5. Green Woodpecker Picus viridis
    6. G & S
  6. Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
    7. S
  7. Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
    8. B & C & S
  8. Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
  9. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
    10. B
  10. House Martin Delichon urbica
    11. B & W
  11. Goldcrest Regulus regulus
    12. S
  12. Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
    13. S
  13. Blue Tit Parus caeruleus
    14. S

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)