Saturday 25 April 2009 - Osselle 25/4/09

Great Crested Grebe - 4 including a pair on a nest platform

Gadwall - 1 male

Mute Swan - 1 pair

Coot - 0 !!!

Grey Heron - 1

Black Kite - 3

Red Kite - 1 near Routelle

Common Sandpiper - 1

Little Ringed Plover - 2 displaying

Woodpigeon - 2

Sand Martin - back in number, seem to be ignoring their old nest colony on the island in favour of a sand bank near the entrance to the site

Blue-headed Wagtail - a few around the pools

White Wagtail - a few, 1 seen prospecting a nest site in machinery.

Stonechat - 1 seen

Tree Sparrow - one or two

The first Swifts of the year were over Besançon in the evening.