Today's sightings
An overnight frost left many shallow water areas frozen but this thawed rapidly with the onset of a front from the SW. The colder conditions and resultant drier few days has allowed water levels to subside slightly. The vast wader flocks have dispersed today with not as many as we have become used to seeing. They should return as the weather changes back to wet and windy.
Holden Tower
The Dumbles
Dark bellied Brent Goose 1 among the 150+ Barnacle Geese
Greylag- 3 saltmarsh birds on the edge of the Dumbles.
E White-fronted Geese- 192 were on Tack Piece before moving to the Dumbles and then to the Goose House Ground with the Bewick's Swans.
Bewick's Swan- 30 on the Dumbles the rest in the Goose House
Lapwing 800
Golden Plover 600
Dunlin 400
Wigeon and Teal- large flock out on the estuary.
Siskin 8 and Lesser Redpoll 2 feeding in the Alders
The Tack Piece
Teal 340
Wigeon 400
Shoveler 43
Little Stint 2 feeding on the ice morning only
Black-tailed Godwit-110
Curlew 35
Redshank 30
Crane 1 GCP bird
South Lake
Great Crested Grebe 1
Pochard 60
Cormorant 12
Gadwall 34
Shoveler 63
Zeiss Hide
Teal 550
South Finger Reedbed
Little Grebe 1 on the settling lagoon
Rushy
Larger numbers of duck day roosting here today
Bewick's Swan 132 at roost with 3 in the Grounds
Pochard and Pintail in numbers
Entrance fields
3 GCP Cranes at 0800.
