Sunday sightings
Martin Smith Hide
The Jack Snipe is still proving very popular and showing on and off from the Martin Smith Hide, also 4+ Common Snipe, Water Rail and a Cetti's Warlber here and two Chiffchaff this morning. The JS has been favouring the eastern (right hand) cut sedge/rush island.
Willow Hide
Two Water Rail seen here today.
Knott Hide
180 Wigeon on the pool.
Holden Tower
At least three Cranes plus two Peregrine and the Barnacle and Canada Geese. 25+ Linnet roaming the salt pasture and saltmarsh.
Tack Piece
Got busier through the day with flocks of Wigeon, Starling, Greylag, Golden Plover, Lapwing, Redshank and at least 9 Ruff, 200+ Dunlin and 20 Curlew. Many of the Bewick's Swans fed here during the day. 5 E. White-fronted Geese were among the Greylags.
Rushy Hide
98 Bewick's Swans (+2 on Tack Piece), 100+ Pintail and 125 Pochard (24 females).
South Lake
Great Crested Grebe, 45 Shoveler, 80 Teal, 14 Cormorant, 22 Black-tailed Godwit, 540 Lapwing, 2 Dunlin and a Snipe. A single Bewick's Swan was resting here. 40+ Herring, 2 Lesser Black-backed, single Common and 250 Black-headed Gulls.
Zeiss Hide
70 Golden Plover, 300+ Wigeon, 200+ Teal and 300+ Lapwing early morning.
Kingfisher Hide
The E.White-fronted Goose flock was in the field to the south of the hide today, a Peregrine was seen mobbing a Buzzard.
Grounds
Chiffchaff by the Otter enclosure with a Treecreeper and Goldcrests.
