middleton lakes and kingsbury water park

on tuesday and thursday this week i went birding with my grandad, this is what we saw.

17/4/12- middleton lakes:

• Long Tailed Tit
• Chaffinch
• canada goose
• grey heron- lots were nesting
• chiffchaff
• mallard
• goldfinch
• great tit
• coal tit
• blue tit
• woodpigeon
• greenfinch
• carrion crow
• dunnock
• robin
• female great spotted woodpecker
• rook
• great crested grebe-quite a few pairs
• mute swan
• tufted duck
• coot
• black headed gull
• lapwing
• magpie
• pheasant
• wheatear
• greylag
• little ringed plover
• pied wagtail
• moorhen
• blackcap
• blackbird
• jay

Kingsbury water park- 19/4/12

• blue tit
• woodpigeon
• magpie
• carrion crow
• blackbird
• jay
• goldfinch
• robin
• mallard
• canada goose
• moorhen
• chaffinch
• tufted duck
• black headed gull
• dunnock
• coot
• swallow
• great crested grebe
• sand martin
• house sparrow
• mute swan
• greenfinch
• lapwing
• oystercatcher
• shoveler
• little egret- might have seen one at middleton lakes also
• lesser black backed gull
• willow warbler
• song thrush
• blackcap
• great tit
• coal tit
• reed bunting

From these two days birding i saw 7 new birds. they were:

• wheatear
• little ringed plover
• swallow
• sand martin
• little egret
• willow warbler
• reed bunting

Robin at middleton lakes

wheatear

Little Egret

grey heron

About an hour ago there was a grey heron on a fence two doors away from me and it took off after a few minutes and flew round and landed in a tree, if it was still there now then there may have been a chance of nesting but its not unfortunately. it was amazing when it took off though.

ireland

i have been in ireland for the first week of easter and have seen many birds while i was there, this is what i saw:

• house sparrow
• rook
• starling
• song thrush
• blue tit
• great tit
• long tailed tit
• blackbird
• mallard
• hooded crow (new one for me)
• rock dove(new one for me)
• fulmar (new one for me)
• cormorant
• lesser black backed gull
• herring gull (new one for me)
• jackdaw
• great black backed gull(new one for me)
• chaffinch
• buzzard

i also have a few pictures with birds on this list and some pictures with birds on i am not sure of

starling

chaffinch

i think this is a herring gull but im not sure. if anyone knows please comment

house sparrow

i think this is a dunnock because of the greyness of its head but if anyone is sure please leave a comment

i think this is a cormorant

 at first i thought this was a cormorant but after i took this photo saw the board in the next picture. i am sure that the spot isn't result of rain because it wasn't raining.

seeing this board made me think that it was a black guillemot but the spot was too small and then i looked closely at the great cormorant photo and saw a small white spot in the same place as the one on the picture i took.

fulmar

rook

i don't know what this duck is but it had a yellow beak

Bray

In bray in ireland and i saw a hooded crow on the beach which is a new bird for me. I've seen tons of rooks and starlings but unfortunately I've left my binoculars in england. I will upload a photo of the hooded crow when I get back to England as at the moment I am using free wifi