Tack Piece flooding
Tack Piece (Martin Smith and Robbie Garnett Hides)
Water levels coming up nicely here pulling in lots of birds:
Greylag 289
Euro Whitefronts 57 and Greenland 5 (here early before hopping over hedge to north)
Wigeon 1089 and Teal 779 crowding the new flood in the center of the field.
Waders very up and down but typically;
Lapwing 700
Golden Plover 12
Dunlin 150
Curlew 47
Black Tailed Godwit 31
Ruff 5
Redshank 7
Crane 5
Holden Tower
Golden plover 900
Grey Plover 1
Lapwing 1500
Dunlin 600
Little Stint 1
Curlew 60
Peregrine 2
Marsh Harrier 1 ad female 1 immature female.
Sparrowhawk 2
Buzzard 2
Crane 4
G B B Gull 48
Walkway
Chiffchaff 1
Goldcrest 2
Long Tailed Tit 12
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2
Zeiss Hide
Teal 347
Pintail 42
Wigeon 200
Snipe 1
Cettis 1
Kingfisher Hide
Lapwing 150
Dunlin 591
Black tailed Godwit 42
Ruff 5
Redshank 7
Curlew 47
Grounds
Scaup 1 female in Eider pen
Redpoll 8 confiding birds in Alders near "Back from the Brink"