Sightings for 14 March
Holden Tower
One Grey Plover with 66 Golden Plover, 50 Dunlin and plenty of territorial Lapwing. Three GCP Cranes and a few Greylag and Canada Geese with the 80 Shelduck.
Tack Piece
The White-fronted Goose flock remains, they have usually left us by this date but are pinned down by an Easterly wind. The flock consists of 98 European and 5 Greenland White-fronted Geese, the latter will be heading in the opposite direction for their breeding grounds and are likely to stage in West Scotland and Iceland before reaching Greenland. The European White-fronted Geese will head across the North Sea and make their way to the Russian tundra in the Arctic circle. A flock of 450 Wigeon also remains on the Tack Piece. Five GCP Cranes were also present this morning.
Rushy Pen
Greater Scaup with 54 Pochard (20 females), 60 Pintail and 70 Shelduck. One Avocet on the lower lake.
South Lake Discovery Hide
Two Avocet, 30 Teal, 4 Oystercatcher, 120 Black-headed Gull, 3 Pochard, 45 Tufted Duck.
Please note that Hogarth Hide is still closed, contractors are currently fixing the leaking roof, the birds on the wader scrape and deep lake seem to largely ignore them.
Zeiss Hide
Nineteen Avocet, 250 Wigeon and smaller numbers of other duck species present.
