The Cotswold Water Park

This website highlights all recent reported sightings within the Cotswold Water Park.    Please send us your sightings and/or photographs of interesting species.  Sightings can be emailed to this website or sent to "cwp_birdsightings-at-hotmail.co.uk"  (Note: Replace -at- with @)

For further general information on the Water Park, please visit the Cotswold Water Park Society website or the Gateway Centre near the A419.  For directions to the Water Park use this link. 

For a leaflet on birds in the Water Park download this PDF File.      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 centre.

For further information on birding nearby try Gloster Birder for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Ornithological Society for Wiltshire.

CWP 125/126; from first light until 6am:   4 Oystercatchers roosting with 20 Lapwing on old silt beds, 140 Black-headed Gulls and 40 Lesser Black-backed Gulls roosting on lake 125, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little egrets.  16 Great Crested Grebe, 8 grey Heron, 49 Greylag Geese, 35 red-crested Pochard on 126.  Singing Reed Bunting (2), Reed Warbler (15+), Sedge Warbler (2), Song Thrush (2).   Gareth Harris

CWP68C :  Lapwing 150 , Green Sandpiper 6 , Redshank, Oystercatcher 1 (male from Kent End feeding on exposed freshwater muscles before flying back with food in its bill back towards Kent End), Teal (drake eclipsed), Cettis Warbler one male in song and one bird calling by hide, Green Woodpecker 2,  Swallow   100+ at dusk above reedbed   Nigel Pleass

CWP 59 :  Little Egret , Green Sandpiper 2 ( flew onto CWP68C) , Mute Swan with 2 cygnets  Nigel Pleass

CWP68B : Mute Swan  51 , Tufted Duck  83 , Red Crested Pochard 42 , Coot 428 ,   Nigel Pleass

CWP 95 : Wood Sandpiper , Green Sandpiper , Gadwall female plus 4 well grown ducklings ,
Cettis Warbler male in song , Marbled White   Nigel Pleass

Kent End : Ringed plover pair bird still sitting, Little Ringed Plover pair plus 3 small young and three adults, Oystercatcher pair and one chick , 40 Lapwing, Common Tern pair and chick, plus two adults  Nigel Pleass

CWP 68c: early am.   75 Black headed Gulls, 2 Green Sandpiper, Gadwall, Mallard  + 2 ducklings, several Reed Bunting, Blackcap, Lapwing, Song Thrush, Cuckoo  heard, Cetti's Warbler heard, 7 Teal, Moorhen, 2 Coot, 2 Shoveler, Magpie, Common Tern, 2 Blue Tit, 3 curlew, 3 Sedge Warbler, 7 Reed Warbler John Rock; Keith Perkins

CWP 59: 2 Mute Swan, 2 Coot, Great Crested Grebe  John Rock

Waterhay area: Greylag Goose, Swallow, Sedge warbler,  2 Common Buzzard, Song Thrush, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap pair  with food, Bullfinch pair, 6 Long Tailed Tits.  John Rock; Keith PerkinsLower Moor Farm:  A Redshank on the pond by the hide, a Kingfisher from the far hide.  Also seen, an Emperor Dragonfly, several Four-spotted Chasers, Broad-bodied Chasers, Black-tailed Skimmers and Brown Hawkers.  Large Skipper, Small Tortoiseshell, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Comma and Large White butterflies and a Hornet.  Steve Davies

Emperor Dragonfly by Steve Davies

Kent End Farm Quarry: 4 Oystercatcher, 8 Curlew, 9 Common Tern, Little Egret, Little Grebe, 7 Lapwing, Little Ringed Plover, Heron      Keith Perkins

CWP 56: Kingfisher, Hobby    Keith Perkins

Kent End Farm Quarry:  2 adult and 1 juv Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Singing males of Whitethroat, Blackcap, 2 Yellowhammer, 2 Skylark.  2 Common Tern, 2 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron,, Mistle Thrush, 2 Lapwing, 10 Black-headed Gulls  Gareth Harris

CWP 68c: at dusk:  12 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Green Sandpipers  Henry Stuart

Waterhay: 2 Green Sandpiper (western side of bridge over R Thames, on mud where cattle have entered river then flew upstream).   Mark Brooks

CWP 68c: 1pair Ruddy Shelduck, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Lapwing, a Little Egret flew over, 1 imm Common Buzzard, 7 Teal, 7 Mallard, 1 Gadwall, 2  Common Tern, 1pair Greenfinch plus many Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Swifts, Lapwing juvenile feeding, Black headed gull, 2 Shoveler, 2 Coots, Moorhen, Kestrel  Maciej Szczygielski; John Rock

Ruddy Shelduck by Maciej Szczygielski

CWP 59: Common Tern fishing, 2 Mute Swan, a few Coot, 5 Mallard, 2 Oyster catcher John Rock

Dragonfly by John Rock

CWP 85a: 1f Tufted Duck with 4 ducklings, 1f Kestrel, 1f Sparrowhawk, 15 Lapwing (on the meadow beyond), 1imm Grey Heron, also Goldfinches, Whitethroats, Sedge Warbler, Reed Buntings, Swifts, plenty Sand Martins.  Maciej Szczygielski

CWP 57: 2 Mallard broods, Red-crested Pochard brood, 5 Common tern, 2 Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 6 Wigeon, male Pochard, 22 Great Crested Grebe, 2 adult and 1 juvenile Little Ringed Plover  Gareth Harris

CWP 6: 10 Great crested Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Common Tern, 3 Song thrush, 4 Reed Bunting, Tufted Duck with brood of 4.  Gareth Harris

CWP 86:  20+ scarlet tiger moth   Pete Brash

CWP 97:  Scarlet tiger moth. 59 Lesser Black backed Gull, 1 Herring Gulls, Little ringed plover, 10 Common Tern, 4 Mallard, Common Sandpiper, 2 Tufted Duck, 209 Lapwing  Gareth Harris

CWP82:     4 Curlew, 1 Kestrel  Steve Wallace

CWP68b: 20+ Red Crested Pochard, Black headed Gull with 2 young  Steve Wallace

CWP59: 2 Oystercatcher, 6 Curlew  Steve Wallace

CWP68d: 1 Cettis Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler,  Sparrow hawk, 6 Teal  Steve Wallace

Kent End: 1 Oystercatcher with young, 2 Ringed Plover, 4 Little Ringed Plover  Steve Wallace

CWP  30: 6 Great Crested Grebe, 17 Red crested Pochard, 15 Longtailed Tit, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, brood of Greylag Goose.  Gareth Harris

Clattinger Farm WWT: Kestrel, 25 Goldfinch, Swallow, Garden Warbler, Skylark. Gareth Harris

Sandpool Farm WWT (Lake 51): 2 Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan, Jay.   Gareth Harris

Lower Moor Farm WWT (Lake 52 & 53): 2 red crested Pochard, Hobby hunting dragonflies., Brood of Great Crested Grebe, Whitethroat feeding young, Reed Bunting, 3 grey Heron, brood of Mute Swan, brood of Mallard, Cormorant,   Gareth Harris

CWP 301: Brood of Red crested Pochard, brood of Coot, 12 Mute Swan. Gareth Harris

CWP 74:  30 Great Crested Grebe, 40 Greylag Geese, Kestrel, Whitethroat, 2 Oystercatcher.  Gareth Harris