Woodcock
Preferring to stay in unapproachable parts of the reservoir woodlands, it's hard to determine this species' status. Most records have occurred in winter.
03/12/64 - single bird.
12/03/70 - Single bird.
11/12/76 - Single bird.
1981 - 6 birds, flushed by game keeper.
08/01/84 - Single bird.
25/02/84 - Single bird.
22/02/86 - Single bird.
20/10/87 - Single bird, flushed near Chard reservoir.
14/01/91 - Single bird.
12/12/91 - Single bird.
28/11/96 - Single bird; taken into care after hitting a barbed wire fence but put down on the following day.
01/02/05 - Single bird in flight.
06/12/08 - Single bird flushed at the north end