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| Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17/12/23 | Mute Swan | Itchen Bridge, Southampton | 27 | I R Watts |
| 10:40 | Between bridge and Spitfire Quay. | |||
| 16/12/23 | Mute Swan | Normandy Marsh/Lagoon | 2 | G Mintram |
| 10:00 | ||||
| 15/12/23 | Mute Swan | Gosport, Workhouse Lake | 2 | R Forster |
| 10:20 | ||||
| 26/11/23 | Mute Swan | Alresford Pond | 30 | D Durell |
| 10:50 | ||||
| 23/11/23 | Mute Swan | Chessel Bay, Southampton | 59 | P Villiers |
| 15:10 | Including 4 cygnets. | |||
| 21/11/23 | Mute Swan | Chessel Bay, Southampton | 52 | I R Watts |
| 16:40 | ||||
| 19/11/23 | Mute Swan | Chessel Bay, Southampton | 51 | I R Watts |
| 11:10 | ||||
| 13/11/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Tide Mill | 2 | P Villiers |
| 15:40 | m/f. The previous incarnation of the 'Eling Swans' sadly came to an end in early October when the cygnet disappeared - last seen on the 2nd and the single mother went awol a few days later. A new pair have now appeared and are regularly sleeping on the hard in front of the Anchor pub and searching for food on Bartley Water around the existing nesting site. It's possible the female is the previous 'single mother' as it seems to be familiar with the island where it nested earlier this year. | |||
| 26/10/23 | Mute Swan | Bury Marshes | 27 | P Villiers |
| 16:00 | 22 ad 5 cygnet. After the +80 counts in August/September at Redbridge/Eling Great Marsh, the numbers have dropped drastically in October. I walked along the shore at low tide from Goatee Beach to Marchwood, and found just this one group at Bury Marshes. | |||
| 07/10/23 | Mute Swan | Emsworth | 28 | P Villiers |
| 15:00 | 22 adult, 6 cygnet. Main group at quay plus separate family towards Langstone. | |||
| 17/09/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 89 | P Villiers |
| 18:00 | ad 83 cygnet 6. Accurate count - yet another new 'recent' record. Larger family seems to be down to 5 cygnets again. | |||
| 16/09/23 | Mute Swan | Fareham Creek | 62 | A Robjohns |
| 13:40 | ||||
| 31/08/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 85 | P Villiers |
| 16:20 | 79 ad 6 cygnets. New 'recent' record count. | |||
| 29/08/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 82 | P Villiers |
| 15:00 | 76 ad 6 cygnets. As usual, spread across the Test between Redbridge and Eling Great Marsh between high and low tide. Includes the two families - 2 adults plus 5 cygnets (sadly down from the original 8) and the 'Eling 2' (mother plus cygnet). | |||
| 28/08/23 | Mute Swan | Bishops Waltham Ponds | 10 | G B Langley |
| 13:32 | pair with 8 cygnets. SU553175. | |||
| 09/08/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 84 | P Villiers |
| 15:00 | 83 ad 1 cygnet. Record count, I believe, for location - accurate as I did 3 separate counts, 2 from Goatee Beach and a further one from Redbridge Wharf. Includes the 'Eling' adult plus 1 cygnet but no sign of the larger family (2 ad plus 7 cygnets) which would have increased the total to 93! | |||
| 07/08/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 11 | P Villiers |
| 13:15 | ad 3 juv 8. Two families - 2 plus 7 cygnets and 1 plus 1 cygnet (the 'Eling swans'). Both are separate from the main group of 73 posted by SC at Redbridge - so a very healthy 84 in total along the Test today. | |||
| 07/08/23 | Mute Swan | Redbridge | 73 | S Clemons |
| 15:50 | On the water between the wharf park and Eling Great Marsh. | |||
| 04/08/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 60 | P Villiers |
| 09:30 | 58 on Redbridge side plus mother/cygnet off Goatee Beach. | |||
| 30/07/23 | Mute Swan | Redbridge Wharf | 54 | P D Winter |
| 12:00 | ||||
| 29/07/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 59 | P Villiers |
| 18:00 | On Redbridge side, viewed from Goatee Beach. | |||
| 23/07/23 | Mute Swan | Riverside Park, Southampton | 43 | I R Watts |
| 12:00 | 41 ad + 2 juv. | |||
| 21/07/23 | Mute Swan | Calshot Spit | 8 | R Chapman |
| 13:45 | 2ad, 6 cygnets. Off-shore from SW about 100m out then headed E towards Hill Head direction, at least 400m out when last seen some 20mins later. | |||
| 16/07/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Tide Mill | 2 | P Villiers |
| 16:55 | f ad + juv. Despite losing its mate several weeks ago the female is doing a great job raising the solitary cygnet. | |||
| 07/07/23 | Mute Swan | Alresford Pond | 58 | J P Turner |
| 18:35 | ad. Didn't see any cygnets. | |||
| 02/07/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 63 | S Clemons |
| 09:40 | Mostly on the water towards north end, south of railway line. | |||
| 29/06/23 | Mute Swan | Redbridge Wharf | 57 | P Villiers |
| 12:10 | ad. Top corner next to railway embankment. Only adults though some looked like they might be carrying young. | |||
| 12/06/23 | Mute Swan | Leckford | 18 | D Murdoch |
| 13:37 | Flock on main branch of Test. Big count for round here. | |||
| 25/06/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Tide Mill | 2 | P Villiers |
| 16:20 | ad female. 1 cygnet. Sad news - the adult male had to be put down due to unexplained injuries. The female seems to be coping well with the solitary cygnet. | |||
| 25/06/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Great Marsh | 50 | P Villiers |
| 16:00 | ad. All on south east side of Redbridge Causeway close to containers, so probably more out of view. Excludes the pair at the Tide Mill and the small group at LTM which were too far away to get a count. Lots of disruptive speed boat activity going far too close! | |||
| 24/06/23 | Mute Swan | Redbridge | 67 | S Clemons |
| 11:00 | 59 off wharf park (south of A35) + family group of 8 at Nine Elms (north of A35). | |||
| 22/06/23 | Mute Swan | Hill Head | 9 | A Robjohns |
| 07:10 | By the harbour entrance. | |||
| 16/06/23 | Mute Swan | Leckford | 20 | D Murdoch |
| 10:58 | Flock of 18 on main channel of Test. | |||
| 14/06/23 | Mute Swan | Sturt Pond, Milford-on-Sea | 6 | K P Duncan |
| 14:30 | BREEDING pair with four cygnets. | |||
| 13/06/23 | Mute Swan | Alton Kings Pond | 10 | K P Duncan |
| 13:00 | BREEDING pair with eight cygnets. | |||
| 12/06/23 | Mute Swan | Heath Pond (Petersfield) | 8 | K P Duncan |
| 18:00 | BREEDING pair have hatched six cygnets. | |||
| 08/06/23 | Mute Swan | Brownwich Pond | 6 | D Wallace |
| 10:45 | Regular pair now with 4 cygnets. | |||
| 01/06/23 | Mute Swan | Riverside Park, Southampton | 45 | D Durell |
| 15:40 | 40 x Adults & 5 x Cygnets. On River Itchen; between Cobden Bridge and Woodmill. . | |||
| 04/06/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Tide Mill | 3 | P Villiers |
| 12:30 | 2ad 1 juv. Ref my post 6 April re the 'Eling swans', good to at last confirm 1 cygnet. As the last two years have been barren, this is a step in the right direction! | |||
| 18/05/23 | Mute Swan | Cranmer Pond (Woolmer Forest) | 2 | M Lawn |
| imm. Presumably the ones that were at Woolmer Pond earlier in the spring. SU7833. | ||||
| 03/05/23 | Mute Swan | Warsash | 4 | G Patrick |
| 14:27 | In 2 groups of 2. SU495052. | |||
| 14/04/23 | Mute Swan | Woolmer Pond | 1 | J F Smith |
13:30 | Dead in the north west end of pond. | |||
| 06/04/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Tide Mill | P D Winter | |
| No forecast tides for Redbridge over 4.52m until early August. | ||||
| 06/04/23 | Mute Swan | Eling Tide Mill | 2 | P Villiers |
| 11:50 | ad m/f. The 'new' pair are nesting on the island in the millpond. The pair are the existing female, which had bred successfully until 2021 and her new mate, following the previous mate having to be but down in 2021. They didn't breed last year. We are concerned that the nest is in danger of being flooded if high tide exceeds 5m - the photo I'm posting in the gallery was taken at high tide today when it was 4.3m. | |||
| 29/03/23 | Mute Swan | Woolmer Pond | 1 | M Lawn |
| imm. 1 alive, 1 dead & no sign of the 3rd of the trio that's been here for 6 weeks. All 3 were alive yesterday. | ||||
| 17/03/23 | Mute Swan | Woolmer Pond | 3 | J F Smith |
| 13:29 | ||||
| 06/03/23 | Mute Swan | Chessel Bay, Southampton | 31 | I R Watts |
| 10:00 | ||||
| 22/02/23 | Mute Swan | Southsea Canoe Lake | 88 | P Hogston |
| 15:35 | Half on grassy areas. | |||
| 19/02/23 | Mute Swan | Bishops Dyke | 1 | J G Ross |
| 13:00 | In flight. | |||
| 19/02/23 | Mute Swan | Woolmer Pond | 4 | M Lawn |
| 1 ad, 3 imm. | ||||
| 15/02/23 | Mute Swan | Woolmer Pond | 3 | M Lawn |
| imm. | ||||
| 11/02/23 | Mute Swan | Emsworth | 37 | P Villiers |
| 14:00 | Usual place by the quay apparently, waiting to be fed by passers-by. A day trip to Emsworth for a lunch meeting pleasantly coinciding with low tide! | |||
| 01/02/23 | Mute Swan | Emsworth | 40 | A Southsea |
| 11:30 | mixed sex & age. I think this is more than I have seen before. I fed them with 2 bag of wild bird mixed seeds deposited close to the water line as they need water to swallow dry matter. (Meanwhile some people were throwing their ham sandwiches at them ignoring the fact that they are vegetarian - mostly). SU748054. | |||
| 03/02/23 | Mute Swan | Southsea Canoe Lake | 92 | A Southsea |
| 15:00 | mixed sex and age. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=236835442017035&set=pcb.236882125345700 ---- With the help of this Facebook page, we encourage, those who can, to go and feed them as they are immature swans (6 to 36 months, ie. below breeding age & brought here by their parents) currently 92+ "babies" depending totally on the surrounding short grass of the park (vitamins) and passing benefactors for food (energy) . SZ653983. | |||
| 05/02/23 | Mute Swan | Lepe | 3 | P F Fawkes |
| 10:00 | 1 on the sea, 3 on the Dark Water. | |||
| 26/01/23 | Mute Swan | Southsea Canoe Lake | 100 | N R Smart |
| 08:35 | Exactly 100 swans on the lake and surroundings excluding the paddle boats. | |||
