High Tide - Great Birding

29 October 2011

Holden Tower A good high tide at 9.7 M has pushed lots of birds onto the Dumbles edge this morning. Whitefronted Goose 32 Grey Plover 16 Golden Plover 300 Lapwing 250 Curlew 120 Dunlin [...]

Holden Tower

A good high tide at 9.7 M has pushed lots of birds onto the Dumbles edge this morning.
Whitefronted Goose 32
Grey Plover 16
Golden Plover 300
Lapwing 250
Curlew 120
Dunlin 650
Ruff 3
Redshank 7
G B B Gull 48
Yellow Legged Gull 2
Peregrine 1 ad female

Tack Piece (Robbie Garnett Hide)

New flooding here has drawn in a good number of birds;
Wigeon 36
Lapwing 600
Golden Plover 450
Curlew 10
Linnet 200

Martin Smith Hide

Snipe 2
Cettis Warbler 1

Rushy

Bewicks Swan 3
Pochard 76
Pintail 54
Tufted Duck 120

South Lake

A Cattle Egret reported here yesterday roosted on the main causeway close to the hide and was still there at 08.30 this morning but not located again so far (11.00).
Cormorant 11
Graet Crested Grebe 1
Tufted Duck 130
Pochard 8
Black Tailed Godwit 84 (just arrived 11.30 presumably from Zeiss see below)

Zeiss Hide

Great birding here again this morning.
Teal a big increase to over 1000,( prizes for the first person to pick out an American ).
Wigeon 35
Avocet 1
Golden Plover 40
Dunlin 270
Ruff 6
Redshank 33
Black Tailed Godwit 55
Water Rail and Cettis close to the hide and 2 Fieldfare passing over.

Kingfisher Hide

Good numbers if some what distant of waders in the newly flooded back part of the field;
Lapwing 260
Golden Plover 40
Ruff 4
Curlew 8
Little Grebe 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Buzzard 1
Cettis Warbler 1