2 Water Pipit and a little Egret also on the reserve today
1 Bittern - main lake (South shore)
2 Pintail - main lake
6 Snipe - main lake, wader scrape, grazing marsh
1 Little Egret - grazing marsh
2 Water Pipit - wader scrape
2 Bearded Tit - heard again in wildside (close to wildside hide)
1 Redpoll - wildside
2 Siskin - sheltered lagoon
60+ Goldfinch - South route, entrance lake
1 Red Kite - circled over before heading North West
October bird highlights: Teal(200+), Pintail, Pochard(52), Jack Snipe, Knot, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Redshank, Bittern, Great White Egret, Water Rail, Hobby, Hen Harrier, Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, Stonechat, Garden Warbler, Siskin, Skylark, Linnet, Lesser Redpoll.
Invertebrates: (late September) Common Darter (see photo below), Willow Emerald Damselfly, Migrant Hawker, Southern Hawker, Common Blue Damselfly, Ruddy Darter, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Small White, Common Carder Bee, Common Furrow Bee, Honey Bee, Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Beewolf, Red-legged Shieldbug, Common Sheetweb Spider, Common Stretch Spider, Common Wolf Spider, Wasp Spider.
Fungus: (August 30th Survey) Meadow Puffball (see photo below on left), Grey Puffball (see photo below on right), Giant Puffball, Tar-spot Fungus, Shaggy Parasol, Lumpy Bracket, Pancake Crust, Bleached Brittlegill, Candelsnuff Fungus, Brown Birch Bolete, Oak Curtain Crust, Blushing Bracket, Oak Mazegill, Brown Rollrim, Blushing Milkcap.