West End:- 8 pairs of Common Terns have 18 young; 2 others still sitting on nests, 14 Lapwings, 3 Mandarins, 78 Great Crested Grebes.
Whillet’s:- 1 Red Kite, 3 Reed Buntings, 1 singing male Yellowhammer, 2 singing Chiffchaffs.
11 species of butterfly recorded included ; Small Heath, Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Large White, Common Blue, Red Admiral, Painted Lady, Comma, Speckled Wood, Meadow Brown & Ringlet. 3 Emperor Dragonfly, 2 Blue-Tail Damselfly and 3 White-legged Damselflies.

West End:- 11 Mandarin.
Whillet’s: Butterfly count – 16 Meadow Brown, 9 Large Skipper, 1 Small Skipper, 3 Painted Lady, 1 Small White, 1 Common Blue, 100+ Azure Damselfly at Meadow Pond, 1 White Legged Damselfly, 1 Beautiful Demoiselle.

West End:- 10 pairs of Common Terns nesting, 9 pairs on rafts and a pair on Martin’s Island. 16 chicks were seen on rafts, 2 birds are still sitting as is the bird on Martin’s Island.
Whillet’s:- 2 male Reed Buntings, 10+ Whitethroats, 2 Garden Warblers collecting food, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Mandarin, 4 singing Chiffchaffs, Willow Warbler.
Painted Lady Butterfly, 2 Emperor Dragonfly, 1 Four Spotted Chaser, 2 White-legged Damselflies, 3 Blue Tail Damselflies, 200 Azure Damselfly, 2 Large Red Damselfly.

On Dam:- Little Egret frightened off by 2 people who went swimming, House Martin, 4 Common Terns.
West End:- Kingfisher perched on tern raft.

West End:- Hobby seen over Pintail Bank.

WeBS
All reservoir:- 47 Great Crested Grebe, 7 Grey Heron, 8+2y Mandarin, 56 Mallard + 1 Feral Mallard hybrid, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 5 Moorhen, 5 Black-headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 6 Swift, 2 Kingfisher, 3+ Reed Warbler, 12 Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 4 Bullfinch, 3 Reed Bunting.
Dam End:- 3 Little Grebe in lagoon, 1 Skylark, 6 House Martin, 2+2y Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Raven, 1 juv Starling, 8 Goldfinch, 1m Yellowhammer.
West End:-  41 Cormorant, 79 Greylag, 1 White Feral Greylag hybrid, 12 Lapwing,
24 Common Tern (10 pairs are either successfully sitting on nests or already have chicks on rafts – 15 chicks seen on rafts so far), the 11th pair seem to have decided to try and nest on Martins Island amongst the Cormorants. The 12^th pair are trying to settle on a raft; but the pair already there have chicks and they do not seem to want to share and keep chasing them off.
Song Thrush heard, 2 Nuthatch.
Whillet’s:- 1 Beautiful & 1 Banded Demoiselle, 3 White legged, 3 Large Red & 25+ Azure Damselflies, 2 Emperor & 3 Four-Spotted Chaser Dragonflies.

West End:- At least 14 Common Tern chicks seen others probably hiding; still 3 adults on eggs. A 10th pair of Common Terns were seen mating so maybe another nest to come. Moorhens nesting in bush on tern raft, 6 Gadwall; 3 juvenile Grey Wagtails on hide roof.

A satellite tagged female Osprey from Kielder Ospreys in Northumberland has returned to the UK as a 2 year old from wintering grounds in N Mauritania. She’s spent time in Sussex, and on 4 June she was over Weir Wood West End at 18.37 BST. She arrived from the West and left to the NW, fixes were every 5 minutes so she can’t have been over the reservoir for long. An image is attached, she was about 60m above the terrain when the fix was taken.
I was reminded about your work party sighting on that date.
She has a blue ring marked 7L in white on her right leg, a BTO ring on her left.
Maybe the time will enable confirmation that it was – or wasn’t – her.
Joanna Dailey
Kielder Ospreys Project

West End:- 9 Common Terns now nesting and first chick seen this morning.

WEST END: 1 Osprey flew over.