A suburban birding option - situated in Halswell, WestLake is a set of two artificially created lakes- originally the site of a gravel pit. A wide range of birds can be sighted at the lakes, which have refuge islands on them for birds to roost and breed. As WestLake is situated on the flyway beechen Ellesmere and the estuary- it would be a spot worth keeping on eye on for oddities. I have sighted royal spoonbill roosting on islands. To my knowledge crested grebe have not been sighted but are a possibility. Both the lakes take 15 minutes to walk around. They also have a healthy population of short-finned eels and possibly rudd and perch. Note the smaller lake is not shown on the topo image.
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