The list below indicates when birds are most likely to be seen (shown in bold e.g. JFM) on the Reserve. Some species occur in small numbers and/or at irregular times and are shown as JFMAMJJASOND.
Only birds likely to be seen at the Basin are listed here.
| Name | Month Seen | Name | Month Seen | |
| Red-throated diver | JFMAMJJASOND | Common gull | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Little grebe | JFMAMJJASOND | Lesser black-backed gull | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Great crested grebe | JFMAMJJASOND | Herring gull | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Cormorant | JFMAMJJASOND | Greater black-backed gull | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Grey heron | JFMAMJJASOND | Sandwich tern | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Mute swan | JFMAMJJASOND | Common tern | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Whooper swan | JFMAMJJASOND | Arctic tern | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Pink footed goose | JFMAMJJASOND | Little tern | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Greylag goose | JFMAMJJASOND | Guillemot | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Barnacle goose | JFMAMJJASDOND | Stock dove | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Brent goose | JFMAMJJASDOND | Woodpigeon | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Shelduck | JFMAMJJASOND | Collared dove | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Wigeon | JFMAMJJASOND | Swift | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Teal | JFMAMJJASOND | Kingfisher | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Mallard | JFMAMJJASOND | Skylark | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Pintail | JFMAMJJASOND | Sand martin | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Shoveler | JFMAMJJASOND | Swallow | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Tufted duck | JFMAMJJASOND | House martin | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Scaup | JFMAMJJASOND | Meadow pipit | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Eider | JFMAMJJASOND | Grey wagtail | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Goldeneye | JFMAMJJASOND | Pied wagtail | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Red breasted merganser | JFMAMJJASOND | Wren | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Goosander | JFMAMJJASOND | Dunnock | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Sparrowhawk | JFMAMJJASOND | Robin | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Buzzard | JFMAMJJASOND | Whinchat | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Osprey | JFMAMJJASOND | Stonechat | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Kestrel | JFMAMJJASOND | Wheatear | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Peregrine falcon | JFMAMJJASOND | Blackbird | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Grey partridge | JFMAMJJASOND | Fieldfare | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Pheasant | JFMAMJJASOND | Song thrush | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Oystercatcher | JFMAMJJASOND | Redwing | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Ringed Plover | JFMAMJJASOND | Sedge warbler | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Golden Plover | JFMAMJJASOND | Whitethroat | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Water rail | JFMAMJJASOND | Willow warbler | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Moorhen | JFMAMJJASOND | Goldcrest | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Grey Plover | JFMAMJJASOND | Coal tit | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Lapwing | JFMAMJJASOND | Blue tit | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Knot | JFMAMJJASOND | Great tit | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Dunlin | JFMAMJJASOND | Jackdaw | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Ruff | JFMAMJJASOND | Rook | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Snipe | JFMAMJJASOND | Carrion crow | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Black-tailed godwit | JFMAMJJASOND | Starling | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Bar-tailed godwit | JFMAMJJASOND | House sparrow | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Whimbrel | JFMAMJJASOND | Tree sparrow | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Curlew | JFMAMJJASOND | Chaffinch | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Redshank | JFMAMJJASOND | Brambling | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Greenshank | JFMAMJJASOND | Greenfinch | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Common sandpiper | JFMAMJJASOND | Goldfinch | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Turnstone | JFMAMJJASOND | Yellowhammer | JFMAMJJASOND | |
| Black headed gull | JFMAMJJASOND | Reed bunting | JFMAMJJASOND |