The Barn Owl: Barn owls are regular birds seen at the lakes in the summer evening, unless you’re looking out for them you can very easily missed seeing them.

Blackbirds: Are one of the most common birds seen around the grounds and be seen most of the time.

Blue Tits: These little Birds are very busy in the springtime nesting among the willow trees around the lakes.

Cormorants: The Cormorant isn’t a very poplar bird to be seen at the trust lakes, for the simple reason they are predator birds that eat fish that the trust can’t afford to loose.

Green Woodpecker: Like the other woodpeckers, Greens do drum, but their drumming is neither as resonant nor harsh as the other two species, nor as frequent - they rely on their laugh a 'yaffle' call to demarcate their territory. In Europe the closely related, though duller, grey-headed woodpecker is also found - but this is a more difficult bird to find, and one that even keen birders often have trouble in seeing.

Kestrels: Occasionally a pair Kestrels nests in one of the older trees that have been left for these birds to use as a nesting site.

Kingfisher: These little birds are so fast they are very difficult to see, occasionally if the anglers are very quite they have been know to settle on their rod to stalk they pray in the shallow waters edge.

The Sparrow hawk: Although it dose not nest anywhere in the grounds of the Trust, you can frequently see them hunting along the hedge rows around the Trust lakes.

Song Thrush: Song thrushes are less "go ahead" than ever-abundant blackbirds and tend to feed closer to cover. At the Trust they are normally seen at early morning. They progress by short runs or a series of hops with pauses and are always in an alert posture. Often the head is held on one side as if listening; look for them closer to the hedge rows.

Swan: There is almost always a pair of swans at the trust lakes during the spring and summer months.

Terns: Are frequent visitors at the lakes feeding on small fish that are abundant on the surface water of the Lakes.

Treecreeper: Can be seen during the summer month nesting and feeding in the summer months in the willow trees at the Manderson Trust.

Swallow: Flying, the swallow is most graceful. Its effortless twisting and turning in search of food is a delight to watch. A brief stall to intercept an insect, which has nearly - but not quite - passed, occasionally interrupts the ceaseless flight. The long tail is used to good effect to accomplish the intricate manoeuvre. They are a pleasure to watch at the Trust Lakes, anglers like to see them - they eat the midges that are a pest when fishing.

Wren: These little birds can be seed throughout the year they are always very busy feeding in the hedgerow around the lakes.

Redwings and fieldfares - winter visitors: In severe winters fieldfares are forced to retreat from East Anglia and they then head westward across the Irish Sea. Fieldfares breed in Scandinavia and the former Soviet Union including the Baltic States. In central Europe the breeding range has extended to Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France.

Sedge Warbler: Not only have sedge warblers been late in arrival recently, but even as the longest day approaches the numbers in parts of East Anglia have been below normal. However, populations of summer migrants wintering in Africa vary here from summer to summer. And the sedge remains the most widespread of our marsh haunting warblers.

The Lesser Spotted Wood Pecker: These birds can be seen around the lakes almost anytime, very often they can be heard tapping at the tree trunks of the willows around the lakes, there are normally some breeding pairs nesting in the willow trees.

The Moorhen: Moorhens nest and breed productively every year they are residents at the lakes all year round.

Bullfinch: In late autumn it is more of a wanderer, they can be seen feeding largely on the seeds of herbaceous plants and berries in the hedgerows. But these decrease in importance with the onset of winter and are replaced by tree seeds, especially ash. The next diet change is in spring when fruit buds become the staple diet. Around the local fields about the Trust are many of fruit trees left from the old orchards that use to thrive in this area which help sustain these beautiful birds. These attacks can become a serious problem. A single bullfinch can remove 30 or more buds in a minute.