Cotswold Water Park Bird Sightings. This stunning wetlands landscape hosts tens of thousands of breeding and watering birds and is an ideal destination for watching wildlife all year round. It includes some 130 lakes covering over 1000 hectares of the Upper Thames Valley.
We found pit 74 and twitchers gate with a degree of ease however we had to settle for just Great Crested Grebes and Wigeon. All records and photos from both local observers and visitors are welcomed. Details of the meeting place for this trip are on the information sheet issued with the Summer 2019 edition of WOS News.
Cotswold Water Park was created as a result of historical lime gravel workings Carine06 Flickr.
The area is of international importance for overwintering birds. The area is of international importance for overwintering birds. Bird monitoring and ringing studies are showing that the CWP is an important stop-over for feeding for migrating birds both during the spring and the autumn. Kingfisher flying about all morning and a shelduck.