Little Grebe - Grèbe castagneux
Great Crested Grebe - Grèbe huppé
Cormorant - Grand cormoran
Little Egret - Aigrette garzette - 3
Grey Heron - Héron cendré
Purple Heron - Héron pourpré - 2+
Mute Swan - Cygne tuberculé - Several pairs on nests and one pair with 7 cygnets.
Mallard - Colvert
Osprey - Balbusard - 1
Red Kite - Milan royal - 1
Black Kite - Milan noir - 5+
Marsh Harrier - Busard des roseaux - 1 female and 2 males, female seen carrying nesting material, + 1 female over the road at Chemin.
Montagu's Harrier - Busard cendré - pair seen at Petit Noir, 2 males together at Fretterans and a male at Annoire.
Buzzard - Buse variable
Sparrowhawk - Epervier - 1 male
Kestrel - Faucon crécerelle
Hobby - Faucon hobéreau - 1
Pheasant - Faisan colchide - heard
Coot - Foulque macroule - Several pairs, some on eggs some with large young.
Little Ringed Plover - Petit gravelot - 5+
Common Sandpiper - Chevalier guignette 2+
Redshank - Chevalier gambette - 2
Greenshank - Chevalier aboyeur - 6
Curlew - Courlieu cendré - Heard
Whimbrel - Courlis courlieu - 1 in a ploughed field most of the day.
Ruff - Combattant varié - 1 female
Yellow-legged Gull - Goéland leucophé - 1 adult
Common Tern - Sterne pierregarin - 3, Fretterans
Woodpigeon - Pigeon ramier - several pairs displaying
Collared Dove - Tourterelle turque
Turtle Dove - Tourterelle des bois - Heard almost constantly from mid morning on, several seen displaying.
Cuckoo - Coucou gris - Heard almost constantly, several seen.
Swift - Martinet noir
Kingfisher - Martin-pêcheur - 1
Bee eater - Guêpier - plentiful
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - Pic épeichette - 1 male
Skylark - Alouette des champs - 1 singing
Sand Martin - Hirondelle de rivage
Swallow - Hirondelle rustique
White Wagtail - Bergeronnette grise
Grey Wagtail - Bergeronnette des ruisseaux - 1
Blue-headed Wagtail - Beregeronnette printanière
Nightingale - Rossignol - heard everywhere, not seen.
Bluethroat - Gorgebleue - 1 male singing - lifer!
Stonechat - Tarir pâtre - A pair and a female seen.
Blackbird - Merle noir
Blackcap - Fauvette à tête noire
Whitethroat - Fauvette grisette
Grasshopper Warbler - Locustelle tachetée - 3 reeling, one seen.
Reed Warbler - Rouserolle effarvatte
Great Reed Warbler - Rouserolle turdoïde - Lifer!
Willow Warbler - Pouillot fitis - heard
Chiffchaff - Pouillot véloce
Great Tit - Mésange charbonnière
Blue Tit - Mésange bleue
Short-toed Treecreeper - Grimpéreau des jardins
Magpie - Pie bavarde
Jay - Géai des chênes
Carrion Crow - Corneille noire
Rook - Corbeau freux
Starling - Etorneau sansonnet
Golden Oriole - Loriot - At least 5 heard, frustratingly, none seen.
House Sparrow - Moineau doméstique
Tree Sparrow - Moineau friquet
Chaffinch - Pinson des arbres
Linnet - Linotte mélodieuse
Goldfinch - Chardonneret
Greenfinch - Verdier
Corn Bunting - Bruant proyer - Many
Yellowhammer - Bruant jaune.
70 Species/espèces
Also seen were a few Rabbits and 3 Hares.
Aussi vus, quelques lapins et 3 lièvres.
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