1 January 2008
Welcome to the New Year and a very good start for birding with Green Winged Teal found from hide at CWP 68c. Nigel Pleass. (Note amendment to previous entry incorrectly entered as 68b)
Not one to give up Nigel Pleass carried on and found his second nearctic record of the day with an adult kumlien's gull in the gull roost at CWP 74.
Also present at CWP 74; c6,500 lesser black backed gull, c1,500 herring gull, 10 great black backed gull, 4 yellow legged gull, 150 black-headed gull and 10 common gull. Other species present - 10 curlew, c1,000 lapwing, 3 golden plover, chiffchaff, male pintail, 10 goldeneye and c20 shoveler. Nick Adams
For those of you new to the water park and wondering what type of species are available in this area - The below list is taken from sightings submitted following a walk around CWP 6, 9, 10, 11, 67, and 71 where 52 Species were seen in 2 Hours.
Great Crested Grebe, Cormorant , Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mallard, Wigeon, Tufted Duck, Pheasant, Moorhen, Coot, Lapwing, Black-Headed Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Great Black-Backed Gull, Common Gull (1st Winter Southern tip of CWP 9), Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great-Spotted Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Starling, Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Wren, Dunnock, Cetti's Warbler (Seen and heard on the east bank of CWP 6 just south of Gateway Centre), Goldcrest , Robin, Blackbird, Fieldfare, Redwing, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-Tailed Tit, Tree Sparrow, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Siskin, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Lesser Redpoll, Reed Bunting Martin Adlam and Dawn Young
Please submit your sightings in 2008.
We welcome all your sightings however common; they are of benefit to maintain the Cotswold Water Park Society records and also to this website to inform and encourage others to visit. Please also consider submitting your records to the current BTO Atlas survey as Roving Records.