CWP 95:  Great White Egret still on pit as per BirdGuides (please keep to permitted paths)

CWP 95: Great White Egret; 4 Little Egret; 2 Shelduck; Barn Owl    Ken Cypher / Laura Mynott.

CWP 46/48: Swillbrook:    Bittern reported yesterday afternoon seen flying off when accidentally flushed. (Martin Saunders per Gloster Birder).

CWP  29:   8 Smew  (3M, 5RH), with 2 Greater Scaup.  Maggi Short

CWP 301:  Adult Male Greater Scaup at 2pm, seen with a small flock of Tufted Ducks.  Head structure not seen, so hybrid not yet discounted.  This appears to be a different bird to the 1st year male seen on lake 29, which has started to moult into adult male plumage.  Gareth Harris

Waterhay Car Park:  2 Ravens John Booth

CWP 68c: 2 Water rail, 22 Teal and 2 Cetti’s Warbler.   John Booth

CWP 68b: 80 Golden Plover flying with c 120 Lapwing  John Booth

CWP 68 d: 30 Common Snipe    John Booth

CWP 59:  2 Little egret.  John Booth

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.

CWP 46/48: Swillbrook lakes  2 male and 1 female goosander, pair of gadwall, 2 pairs of shoveler, pair of wigeon, male cetti’s warbler and 2 water rail. Nick Adams

CWP 74: c1,000 lapwing and 500 golden plover. Nick Adams

CWP 84/85:  Shorncote Reedbed   80+ Snipe, 800+ Teal, 50 Shoveler, 300 Wigeon, 11 Little Egret, 30 Mallard, 10 Pochard, 10 Gadwall, 20 Tufted Duck, 20 Coot, Litle Grebe, 2, Great Crested Grebe, 3 Cormorant,  Grey Heron, 100+ Lapwing, 1 chiffchaff, 1 redpoll overhead calling.   Simon Pickering / Matt Prior.

CWP 74:  6 Pintail, 20+ Shoveler, 10 Cormorants, plus large numbers of Wigeon and Tufted Duck. 2 Buzzards overhead. 100+ lapwing overhead. Gareth Harris
 
Lower Mill Estate:  508 Coot, 79 Mallard, 7 Moorhen, 16 Great Crested Grebe, 69 Pochard, 36 Red Crested Pochard, 300 Wigeon, 83 Tufted Duck, 39 Gadwall, 28 Teal, 7 Snipe, 4 Goldeneye, 7 Cormorant, 9 Mute Swan, 1 Grey Heron, 60 Canada Goose, 13 Shoveler, 5 Goosander, 1 Common Gull. (Total 1272 waterbirds).  Gareth Harris
 
Note: Bird numbers on gravels pits may decrease following high rainfall and during period of flooding, since the flooded fields provide extensive shallow water for feeding. Furthermore, during flooding, higher water levels on gravel pits takes the feeding areas out of reach of many species of waterbirds. For this reason, bird numbers on flooded fields in the Thames floodplain may yieid higher numbers and flock of waterbirds. A this time of year, as water levels vary, it is often worth birding in areas away form the usual birding locations such as waterhay and shorncote reedbed.
 
Please remember to keep to public rights of way and always seek landowner permission before entering private land.
  
Gareth Harris

I realise that I gave Gareth’s email address incorrectly the other day.  It is cwp_birdsightings-at-hotmail.co.uk.  Please replace the -at- with @.