High Tide and Waders
Zeiss Hide
Good high tide this morning pushed a lot of Ducks and Waders onto the Top New Piece. There were over 1200 Teal with a scattering of Pintail and Shoveler among them, 150 Wigeon were grazing in the field when another 150 were flushed from the estuary by a Peregrine. Waders were great:
Golden Plover 8
Lapwing 240
Dunlin 2
Little Stint 1
Knot 1
Redshank 12
Spotted Redshank 2
Greenshank 1
Ruff 8
South Lake
Good wader activity here as well 178 Black Tailed Godwit held a single Knot among them. There were 3 Curlew Sandpipers and around a dozen Redshank, only 1 Snipe this morning but scan around the edge of the scrape for more. There was a male Mandarin on the lake, 68 Shoveler and 230 Teal on the scrape.
Holden Tower
Great views of 13 Cranes from here, 120 Wigeon with 20 Pintail were over the estuary and 3 Golden Plover were flying around
