2021 Bird List (also including butterflies and dragon/damselflies)

Here is our reserve bird list for the year (2021). We will try to routinely update the list and hopefully match last year's count of 169 species. Dates are when first seen/reported (unless 01/01-04/01 when initial list put up). 

1. Canada goose
2. barnacle goose (17/01, fly-over)
3. greylag goose
4. pink-footed goose (fly-over)
5. white-fronted goose
6. mute swan
7. whooper swan (19/10)
8. Egyptian goose
9. shelduck 
10. garganey
11. shoveler
12. gadwall
13. wigeon
14. mallard
15. pintail
16. teal
17. red-crested pochard (27/02)
18. pochard
19. tufted duck
20. scaup (21/08)
21. goldeneye (first return: 15/10)
22. smew (04/01)
23. goosander (11/01)
24. red-legged partridge
25. grey partridge (07/05)
26. pheasant
27. little grebe
28. great-crested grebe
29. black-necked grebe (05/02)
30. glossy ibis (10/01)
31. spoonbill (10/04)
32. bittern (22/01)
33. cattle egret  (23/01)
34. grey heron
35. great white egret
36. little egret
37. cormorant
38. osprey (09/04)
39. sparrowhawk
40. marsh harrier
41. red kite
42. white-tailed eagle (04/04)
43. buzzard
44. water rail (05/02 (heard prior))
45. moorhen
46. coot
47. oystercatcher (12/02)
48. avocet (26/02)
49. lapwing
50. golden plover (25/02)
51. grey plover (26/04)
52. ringed plover (19/02)
53. little ringed plover (29/03)
54. whimbrel (23/04)
55. curlew (07/03, fly-over)
56. bar-tailed godwit (19/02)
57. black-tailed godwit (10/01)
58. turnstone (13/05)
59. knot (07/03)
60. ruff (15/01)
61. sanderling (04/05)
62. dunlin (26/02)
63. little stint (05/05)
64. woodcock 
65. jack snipe (01/12)
66. snipe (27/02)
67. common sandpiper (23/04)
68. green sandpiper (24/04)
69. redshank (11/02)
70. wood sandpiper (01/05)
71. spotted redshank (20/02)
72. greenshank (26/04)
73. kittiwake (15/03)
74. black-headed gull
75. little gull (16/04)
76. Mediterranean gull (02/03)
77. common gull
78. great black-backed gull
79. Iceland gull (22/01)
80. Kumlien's gull (24/02)
81. herring gull
82. Caspian gull (25/11)
83. yellow-legged gull (16/12)
84. lesser black-backed gull
85. sandwich tern (14/04)
86. little tern (30/04)
87. common tern (01/04)
88. arctic tern (16/04)
89. black tern (30/04)
90. feral pigeon
91. stock dove
92. woodpigeon
93. turtle dove (26/04)
94. collared dove (29/04)
95. cuckoo (20/04)
96. barn owl (12/02)
97. tawny owl
98. little owl (10/01)
99. long-eared owl
100. short-eared owl (11/04)
101. swift (25/04)
102. kingfisher
103. great-spotted woodpecker
104. green woodpecker
105. kestrel
106. hobby (30/04)
107. peregrine (26/10)
108. Alexandrine parakeet (13/01 (presumed escape))
109. jay
110. magpie
111. jackdaw
112. rook
113. carrion crow
114. raven (05/02)
115. blue tit
116. great tit
117. bearded tit (18/01)
118. skylark
119. sand martin (27/02)
120. swallow (30/03)
121. house martin (15/04)
122. Cetti's warbler
123. long-tailed tit
124. willow warbler (31/03)
125. chiffchaff
126. sedge warbler (31/03)
127. reed warbler (19/04)
128. grasshopper warbler (18/04)
129. blackcap (26/03)
130. garden warbler (20/04)
131. lesser whitethroat (23/04)
132. whitethroat (19/04)
133. firecrest (30/04)
134. goldcrest
135. wren
136. treecreeper (01/02)
137. starling
138. ring ouzel (01/05)
139. blackbird
140. fieldfare
141. redwing (first return: 13/10)
142. song thrush
143. mistle thrush (28/05)
144. spotted flycatcher (01/09)
145. robin
146. nightingale (01/05)
147. pied flycatcher (05/09)
148. redstart (06/09)
149. whinchat (06/09)
150. stonechat
151. house sparrow
152. dunnock
153. yellow wagtail (09/04)
154. grey wagtail (22/12)
155. white wagtail (26/03)
156. pied wagtail
157. meadow pipit
158. tree pipit (08/09, fly-over)
159. water pipit (15/01)
160. rock pipit (15/10)
161. chaffinch
162. brambling (07/10, fly-over)
163. hawfinch (13/10, fly-over)
164. bullfinch
165. greenfinch
166. linnet
167. lesser redpoll (20/02)
168. goldfinch
169. siskin (27/10, fly-over)
170. corn bunting
171. yellowhammer
172. reed bunting

Butterflies:

1. small/Essex skipper
2. large skipper
3. brimstone
4. large white
5. small white
6. green-veined white 
7. orange-tip 
8. small copper 
9. brown argus
10. common blue
11. holly blue
12. red admiral
13. painted lady 
14. small tortoiseshell 
15. peacock 
16. comma 
17. speckled wood 
18. gatekeeper
19. meadow brown
20. ringlet
21. small heath

Dragon/Damselflies

1. banded demoiselle
2. emerald damselfly
3. willow emerald damselfly
4. white-legged damselfly
5. large red damselfly
6. azure damselfly
7. variable damselfly
8. common blue damselfly
9. blue-tailed damselfly
10. red-eyed damselfly 
11. small red-eyed damselfly 
12. hairy dragonfly
13. migrant hawker
14. southern migrant hawker 
15. southern hawker 
16. brown hawker
17. Norfolk hawker
18. emperor dragonfly 
19. four-spotted chaser
20. scarce chaser
21. broad-bodied chaser
22. black-tailed skimmer
23. common darter
24. ruddy darter