John Turner’s records from Danson Park for July 2015.
John comments
“Both the little grebe nest (disappeared) and great crested grebe nest (abandoned) have failed it seems. The garden warbler was a quick glimpse of a brown warbler! Thus the ? The ringlet, the ruddy darter and the banded demoiselle are our first records for Danson Park.”
Bird walk attendees had a great view of these Great Crested Grebes indulging in their courtship display on Danson lake. (Photo: Richard Spink)
| 05/07/2015 | 14/07/2015 | 17/07/2015 | 028/07/2015 | |
| a.m. | a.m. | a.m. | a.m. | |
| Great-crested Grebe | 2+nest | 2+nest | 2+nest | 2 |
| Little Grebe | 2` | 1 | 2+nest | 1 |
| Cormorant | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Heron | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Mute Swan | 2+5juv | 2+5juv | 2+5juv | 2+5juv |
| Canada Geese | 41 | 48 | 45 | 43 |
| Grey Lag Goose | ||||
| Egyptian Goose | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Mallard | 88+2juv | 84+8juv | 70+7juv | 84+9juv |
| Tufted Duck | 4 | 3 | ||
| Sparrow Hawk | ||||
| Moorhen | 7+2juv | 2 | 10+4juv | 8 |
| Coot | 73+5juv | 67+4juv | 51 | 60+4juv |
| Black-headed Gull | 10 | 37 | 48 | 61 |
| Yellow-legged Gull | 1 | |||
| Lesser Black Backed Gull | 2 | |||
| Herring Gull | 5 | 4 | 17 | 1 |
| Wood Pigeon | 12 | 20 | 2 | 17 |
| Stock Dove | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Collared Dove | ||||
| Ring-necked Parakeet | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 |
| Kingfisher | ||||
| Green Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | ||
| Greater-spotted Woodpecker | ||||
| Nuthatch | ||||
| Pied Wagtail | ||||
| Grey Wagtail | ||||
| Wren | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Dunnock | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| Robin | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
| Blackbird | 7 | 11 | 2 | 3 |
| Mistle Thrush | 1 | |||
| Song Thrush | 1 | |||
| Blue Tit | 1 | 3 | ||
| Great Tit | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Coal Tit | ||||
| Long-tailed Tit | ||||
| Starling | 10 | 9 | 30+ | 5 |
| Jay | 2 | 1 | ||
| Magpie | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
| Crow | 70+ | 53 | 52 | 44 |
| Jackdaw | ||||
| House Sparrow | ||||
| Chaffinch | 1 | 1 | ||
| Greenfinch | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Goldfinch | ||||
| Goldcrest | ||||
| Swift | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| House Martin | ||||
| Swallow | ||||
| Chiff chaff | 2 | |||
| Blackcap | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Garden Warbler | 1? | |||
| Grey Squirrel | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| Brown Rat | ||||
| Speckled Wood | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Meadow Brown | 10+ | 15+ | 15+ | 10+ |
| Peacock | ||||
| Small Tortoiseshell | ||||
| Large White | 9 | 6 | 11 | 2 |
| Common Blue | ||||
| Holly Blue | 1 | 1 | ||
| Red Admiral | ||||
| Small Skipper | 8 | 5 | 4 | |
| Ringlet | 4 | |||
| Comma | 3 | 1 | ||
| Gatekeeper | 4 | 10 | 11 | |
| Common blue damselfly | Many | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Blue-tailed damselfly | Many | 4 | Many | 5 |
| Azure winged damselfly | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
| Banded demoiselle | 1 | |||
| Emperor Dragonfly | 1 | |||
| Black-tailed skimmer | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Broad bodied chaser | 2 | 1 | ||
| Ruddy darter | 2 female | |||
