The Cotswold Water Park

This website highlights all recent reported sightings within the Cotswold Water Park.   Please send us your records and any photographs of interesting species seen in this area.  Sightings can be mailed to this website, added as 'comments' to previous entries or sent to "cwp_birdsightings-at-hotmail.co.uk"  (Note: Replace -at- with @)

For a leaflet on birds in the Water Park download this PDF File.    For further general information on the Water Park, please visit the Cotswold Water Park Society website, the Visitor Centre at Keynes Country Park or the Gateway Centre near the A419.  

For directions to the Water Park use this link.   Maps with lake numbers for the Western and Eastern sections of the Water Park can be downloaded or can be picked up at the visitor centres. For further information on birding nearby try Gloster Birder for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Ornithological Society for Wiltshire.

CWP 74:  12 Black Tern;  6 Common Tern; 2 Hobby; Greenshank; 22+ whimbrel and summer plumaged bar-tailed godwit.  Malcolm Royal; Simon Ward

CWP 41: 2 male garganey  Gareth Harris

Dawn onwards saw a Water Vole feeding on the River Thames at the end of Mill Lane in full view for long period. Stoat hunting along the eastern edge of CWP 41, also seen swimming across the brook here. Gareth Harris
 
CWP 57: Nightingale singing. 6 Hobby, at least 25 Common Terns. Gareth Harris
 
All around Lower Mill Estate large numbers of Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler and Reed Bunting.  Gareth Harris

 CWP74: 6 Black Tern, Rita Burstow per WOS..

CWP95: 4 Hobby  Rita Burstow per WOS.

CWP 301: 1 Hobby  Martin Adlam/Dawn Young  

CWP 74:  22 black tern (also seen later at CWP 9), turnstone flew over heading towards lake 95/kent end quarry, 2 Hobby and 17 Cormorant  Nick Adams; Martin Adlam/Dawn Young 

CWP 59: 2 Common Tern. Mute Swan, Mallard with young, 2 make and 1 female red crested pochard, 2 pair of tufted duck, 2 pair of Canada geese,   Martin Adlam/Dawn Young; John and Denise Rock

CWP 68c: 1 Cuckoo, 1 singing Nightingale, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, 2 Cetti’s Warblers, 2 pair of gadwall,grey heron, 2 common tern, 2 moorhen, 12 black-headed gulls.  Martin Adlam/Dawn Young; John and Denise Rock.

CWP 95: 3 Hobby and 2 Lesser Whitethroats  Martin Adlam/Dawn Young

Mute Swan seeing off a heron courtesy of Martin Adlam

CWP 46/48: Swillbrook Lakes;  Common Tern, 1 Swift, 2 Common Whitethroat, 4 Nightingale singing, Several Sedge Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler and 3 male & 1 female Bullfinch  Martin Adlam / Dawn Young

CWP 77: 1 Nightingale singing  Martin Adlam / Dawn Young

CWP 59:   8 Tufted Duck, male Reed Bunting, 2 pair Great crested grebe Lake 59, 1 Mute swan, sedge warbler   John Rock

CWP 68c:  3 pair Gadwall, 1 pair Shelduck,  Swifts flying over, Nightingale heard from the hide.  John Rock

Sedge Warbler courtesy of John Rock

CWP 95: 2 Redshank, pair of gadwall, grey heron, 2 reed bunting, whitethroat, blackcap, garden warbler,  Gareth Harris

Kent End Quarry:  2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Ringed Plover,  100+ Sand Martin, buzzard, kestrel, 1 male lesser whitethroat, pair of shelduck,  Gareth Harris

CWP 57:  2 Little Ringed Plover; Common Sandpiper; 100+ Swift; 300+ swallow; 1 hobby; 1 nightingale.  Gareth Harris.

Waterhay: Heron in field; ringed Long tailed tit by path from car park  John Rock.

CWP 59:  Pair tufted duck; Pair Greylag Geese; numerous swallows, pair of red crested pochard.  John Rock

CWP 68c: Shelduck; 3 pairs of Gadwall; numerous swallow, 1 male teal  John Rock