Maple Lodge Nature Reserve & Lynsters Farm

An afternoon visit in very unsettled conditions provided the following species:-
Little Grebe (2), Great Cormorant (1over), Mute Swan (1), Greylag Goose (54 Lynsters Farm), Canada Goose (10 Lynsters Farm), Cackling Goose (1 Lynsters Farm), Egyptian Goose (2 Lynsters Farm), Common Teal (7), Mallard (9), Common Pochard (3), Tufted Duck (9), Common Buzzard (2), Green Sandpiper (1 Lynsters Farm), Water Rail (1), Common Moorhen (14), Eurasian Coot (16), Black-headed Gull (6 over), Feral Rock Dove (1 over), Stock Dove (2), Woodpigeon, Collared Dove (1), Ring-necked Parakeet (8), Common Kingfisher (1), Green Woodpecker (3), Great-spotted Woodpecker (1), Wren, Dunnock, European Robin (2), Common Blackbird (2), Redwing, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Common Treecreeper (1), Eurasian Jay (1), Common Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Common Chaffinch, European Goldfinch (2), Eurasian Siskin (26), Reed Bunting (2).

                                                 A distant Water Rail from Rotunda Hide.

                                                    Little Grebe from Sluice Hide.

                                Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii minima at Lynsters Farm.