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