A thaw and some visible migration
Ice is melting slowly and a few waders and Ducks returning to the fields and scrapes. There was some steady visible migration this morning with several flocks totalling 240 Redwing and 80 Fieldfare.
Zeiss Hide and South Finger
Wigeon 2000 in a dense flock
Teal 80
Lapwing 90
Dunlin 380
Snipe 1
Buzzard 1
Long Tailed Tit 15
Cettis 1
Holden Tower and Hides
Whitefronted Goose 100 (feeding in fields to north but dropping in to drink)
Canada Goose 380
Barnacle Goose 208
Brent Goose 1
Crane 13
Lapwing 300
Golden Plover 95
Chiffchaff 1 from Knott Hide
Reed Bunting 5
Rushy
Bewick's Swan 80
Pochard 45
Pintail 70
Little Stint 1 through the middle of the day yesterday.
South Lake
Shoveler 60
Pochard 24
Teal 200
Cormorant 7
