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A fantastic week over 100 bird species @WWTWelney

A great week at WWT Welney lots of spring migrants and our first lapwing chicks!

This weeks totals - 103 species

Little grebe
Great crested grebe
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Shelduck
Wigeon
Teal
Shoveler
Gadwall
Mallard
Garganey - 4
Tufted duck
Coot
Moorhen
Water rail
Cormorant
Little egret
Grey heron
Great white egret - 2 Nelson lyle hide
Avocets - 95
Redshank
Lapwing
Black-tailed godwit
Whimbrel - Lady Fen
Greenshank
Green sandpiper
Oystercatcher
Snipe
Jack snipe
Dunlin
Ringed plover
Little ringed plover
Spotted redshank - 1/5/16 Lyle hide
Common tern
Black-headed gull
Common gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Greater black-backed gull
Yellow legged gull
Marsh harrier
Buzzard
Peregrine
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Hobby - 2
Barn owl
Little owl
Short eared owl
Pheasant
Red-legged partridge
Crow
Rook
Jackdaw
Magpie
Jay
Woodpigeon
Stock dove
Collared dove
Starling
Wheatear
Blackbird
Song thrush
Mistle thrush
Treecreeper
Great spotted woodpecker
Green woodpecker
Cetti's warbler - 13 singing males
Chiffchaff
Willow warbler
Whitethroat
Lesser whitethroat
Reed warbler
Sedge warbler
Goldcrest
Blackcap
Swallow
Sand martin
House martin
Swift
Cuckoo
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Wren
Dunnock
Robin
Blue tit
Great tit
Long-tailed tit
House sparrow
Tree sparrow 5 on feeders
Linnet
Redpoll
Meadow pipit
Skylark
Pied wagtail
Yellow wagtail
White wagtail
Reed bunting
Corn bunting
Yellowhammer

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