27 January 2008
Walk around CWP 31/32 (Keynes Country Park) and then across to CWP 84/85a/85b (Shorncote Reedbeds) found Great Crested Grebe; Cormorant; 5 Little Egret; Grey Heron; Mute Swan; 2 Barnacle Geese (CWP 79); Canada Geese; Mallard; Gadwall; Wigeon; Teal; Shoveler; Tufted Duck; Pochard; Sparrowhawk; Buzzard; Kestrel; Moorhen; Coot; c.1000 Lapwing (CWP 79); 11 Snipe; Black-headed Gull; Herring Gull; Lesser Black-backed Gull; Common Gull; Great Spotted Woodpecker; Skylark; 4 Meadow Pipit; Pied Wagtail; 2 Grey Wagtail; Dunnock; Robin; Blackbird; 5 Fieldfare; Song Thrush; Cetti's Warbler (CWP 84); Goldcrest; Long-tailed Tit; Great Tit; Blue Tit; Wren; Magpie; Rook; Carrion Crow; Jackdaw; Starling; Chaffinch; Goldfinch; Greenfinch; Reed Bunting; 2 Bullfinch and a peacock butterfly by the Centre in the Country Park. Martin Adlam / Dawn Young
2 Green Sandpiper in the new Gravel Pit close to CWP85a (Grid Ref SU 032964). Martin Adlam / Dawn Young
A Great White Egret was reported to have been seen flying south of the Bird Hide at CWP 84. Anyone with knowledge please us know.