CBC Wildlife News
Records submitted in the last 14 days, most recent first. Amber indicates local or uncommon, bold red indicates a description is needed for verification at county or national level, green indicates category D (reasonable doubt of natural occurrence) or category E (escapes or non-sustaining introductions).
Tue 02 December 2025
Tue 02 December 2025
Tue 02 December 2025
Tue 02 December 2025
Tue 02 December 2025
1 Pintail (ad m) ,
4 Moorhen ,
1 Mute Swan (juv (4GEW)) ,
[David & Pat Wileman]
Tue 02 December 2025
2500 Pink-footed Goose (flocks on and off reserve from fields) ,
13 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (flew E) ,
20 Pintail (2 Brackish, 18 Arnold's but mobile) ,
6 Little Grebe (Don's, Brackish & Main Drain) ,
2 Little Egret ,
1 Cormorant ,
4 Avocet (Pat's) ,
17 Black-tailed Godwit (Pat's) ,
4 Curlew ,
3 Redshank ,
5 Snipe (3 Pat's, 2 Brackish) ,
19 Dunlin (Pat's) ,
423 Lapwing ,
1 Golden Plover (Pat's) ,
1 Red Kite (W) ,
1 Kestrel ,
5 Marsh Harrier (incl. yellow tagged fem) ,
2 Stonechat (pr E Bank) ,
[David & Pat Wileman]
Mon 01 December 2025
2 Red Kite (Drifted south together) ,
1 Kestrel ,
2 Buzzard (Came into roost) ,
[David Fell]
Sun 30 November 2025
3 Chaffinch ,
1 Wren ,
1 Bullfinch (Male.) ,
2 Cormorant (Flying SW, separately.) ,
c.50 Lapwing (On field immediately E.) ,
c.10 Curlew (On field immediately E.) ,
1 Kestrel ,
1 Shelduck ,
4 Gadwall ,
c.9 Teal ,
12 Golden Plover (Flying W.) ,
2 Mallard (Both male.) ,
1 Wigeon (Male.) ,
1 Shoveler (Male.) ,
c.1 Cetti's Warbler (Heard only,singing.) ,
[Tony Pope]
Sun 30 November 2025
c.1200 Pink-footed Goose (Wigeon marsh) ,
350 Wigeon (East Bank) ,
7 Shoveler (East Bank) ,
62 Teal (East Bank) ,
2 Shelduck (East Bank) ,
2 Little Egret (East Bank) ,
8 Dunlin (East Bank) ,
1 Ringed Plover (East Bank) ,
1 Stonechat (East Bank) ,
9 Goldfinch (Cricket Marsh) ,
150 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Bull Marsh) ,
[Kath & Mick Claydon]
Sat 29 November 2025
400 Pink-footed Goose (Maximum count mid AM after about 2000 returned from the south and alighted onto Billy's Wash/Eye Field/Bull Marsh) ,
150 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Eye Field) ,
80 Greylag Goose (Field east of Babcock Hide) ,
15
Pintail
(3 Simmonds, 12 Arnolds)
,
c.600 Wigeon (250 Simmonds, 350 Serpentine) ,
4 Avocet (Pats) ,
c.7 Black-tailed Godwit (Icelandic) (Pats) ,
6 Water Pipit (Maximum count on/over Pats with two seen on Serpentine) ,
c.2
Kingfisher
(From Bishops Hide, using the post and also hovering to fish. Another East Bank)
,
2
Black-headed Gull
(Simmonds including a pink-breasted individual)
,
112 Dunlin (22 Pats, 90 Arnolds) ,
1
Jack Snipe
(Very close to LHS of Bishops Hide and still cryptically camouflaged. A lot of bobbing which actually made one feel queesy! A Common Snipe walked passed allowing fantastic comparison of features.)
,
15 Gadwall (Brackish Lagoon) ,
450 Teal (Pats/Simmonds/Serpentine) ,
1 Chiffchaff (collybita) (East Bank shrubs) ,
1 Water Rail (Dons Pool) ,
c.1 Grey Wagtail (Snipes Marsh) ,
1 Blackcap (Male Walsey Hills) ,
1 Redwing (Walsey Hills) ,
2 Marsh Harrier (Adult female and juvenile over reserve) ,
2 Little Egret (Brackish Lagoon) ,
1 Grey Plover (Arnolds Marsh) ,
2 Ringed Plover (Arnolds Marsh) ,
1 Turnstone (Arnolds Marsh) ,
7 Snipe (Pats, one near Jack Snipe and 6 flew south) ,
[David Griffiths]