British Garden Birds - LWT Whisby Nature Park

Whisby Nature Park is managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust on behalf of North Kesteven District Council and Lincolnshire County Council; it is located south-west of Lincoln.

The reserve comprises flooded gravel pits - it was previously a sand and gravel quarry - surrounded by willow and birch scrub. The railway, which cuts through the reserve, is edged by a oak woodland. There are also dry areas of gravel and a sand bank where a colony of Sand Martins nests.

I've only been in May and June with the specific aim of seeing Nightingale and I've not yet been disappointed as there are several pairs of Nightingales and up to 20 singing males. Delightful!

There's a good chance you will see or at least hear a Turtle Dove and a great many other species too.

What You Might See
Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Blue Tit Bullfinch Canada Goose Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Collared Dove Common Tern Coot Cormorant Cuckoo Dunnock Gadwall Garden Warbler Goldfinch Great Black-backed Gull Great Crested Grebe Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker Greenfinch	Grey Heron Grey Partridge Greylag Goose Herring Gull Hobby House Sparrow Jackdaw Jay Kestrel Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Whitethroat Linnet Little Grebe Little Ringed Plover Long-tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Mistle Thrush Moorhen Mute Swan Nightingale Oystercatcher Pheasant	Pied Wagtail Red-legged Partridge Reed Bunting Reed Warbler Ringed Plover Robin Rook Ruddy Duck Sand Martin Sedge Warbler Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Starling Stock Dove Swallow Swift Tree Sparrow Tufted Duck Turtle Dove Whitethroat Willow Tit Willow Warbler Wood Pigeon Wren