Tick and twitch event
A lovely day on the reserve for our new years day tick and twitch events. Lots of people started off their 2016 birding lists with a great start!
Todays Sightings - 58 species
Little grebe
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Bewick's swan - Friends hide
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Egyptian goose
White fronted goose - Lady Fen pool infront of thee café
Cormorant
Great white egret
Grey heron
Little egret
Shelduck
Mallard
Teal
Tufted duck
Pochard
Pintail
Gadwall
Shoveler
Wigeon
Marsh harrier
Buzzard
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Barn owl
Peregrine
Curlew
Ruff
Lapwing
Golden plover
Dunlin
Black-tailed godwit
Redshank
Snipe
Moorhen
Coot
Water rail - calling by the main observatory
Pheasant
Red-legged partridge
Blackbird
Starling
Song thrush
Mistle thrush
Fieldfare
Redwing
Cetti's warbler
Wren
Blue tit
Great tit
Dunnock
House sparrow
Tree sparrow - 3 on feeders at 11am
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Reed bunting
Green woodpecker
58 species
