Today's sightings
Holden Tower
Little Stint 2 feeding around the scrape.
Merlin- female resting on the foreshore driftwood.
Peregrine female on the fence at south end.
E White-fronted Geese- 232.
Greenland White-fronted Goose 1- dark bird with long bill.
Avocet 4 roosting on the estuary over the tide.
Curlew 509.
Lapwing 3000.
Dunlin 1400.
Golden Plover 400.
Bewick's Swan 90 feeding on the Dumbles and Tack Piece.
Tack Piece
Disturbed today by essential Internal Drainage Board work but the swans and waders remained. Black-tailed Godwit and Redshank were present among the Dunlin, Lapwing and Golden Plover flocks.
Zeiss Hide
Teal 250.
Shoveler 30.
South Lake
Great Crested Grebe 1.
Tufted Duck 80.
Pochard 30.
Cormorant 12- few now moulting and showing white heads and thigh patches.
Oystercatcher-first two returning birds of the year.
