Moore Nature Reserve 30 March 2018
Most of our March had been filled with our holiday in America but we managed to get back into the birding group Tuesdays for the last date of the term which was to Moore Nature Reserve. We ran in to the warden in the car park and she toild us theat three Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers had been seen close to the usual place for them the previous day. We didn’t have any luck finding them, however, despite spending a long time looking. Perhaps they were hiding because it was raining quite heavily most of the time we were there.
We did manage to hear a Green Woodpecker calling constantly but couldn’t lay eyes on it. We had better luck with the Great Spotted Woodpecker. We got plenty of Treecreepers, a Jay, a Buzzard, a Song Thrush and, on the water, we got some Goldeneye and the usual Tufted Ducks and Teals. In general, the water level was very high. The rain was a bit disheartening so we were quite ready to decamp to the local pub where we planned the next terms birding sites.
Bird Sightings : Moore Nature Reserve
| Greylag Goose | 1 |
| Canada Goose | 12 |
| Mute Swan | 3 |
| Common Teal | 4 |
| Tufted Duck | 20 |
| Common Goldeneye | 2 |
| Little Grebe | 1 |
| Great Cormorant | 2 |
| Common Buzzard | 1 |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | 1 |
| Green Woodpecker | 1 |
| Eurasian Jay | 1 |
| Great Tit | 2 |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | 4 |
| Eurasian Treecreeper | 3 |
| Eurasian Wren | 2 |
| European Robin | 2 |
| Song Thrush | 1 |
| Dunnock | 1 |
