Today's sightings
Holden Tower 0830-0930
Tundra Bean Goose- adult arrived and settled among the Barnacle Geese. Flew off with Greylags across the estuary.
Greylag Goose- 5
(3 new big, pale birds arrived and joined the 2 sometimes 3 saltmarsh wintering birds)
Dark-bellied Brent Goose-1
Barnacle Goose- 41
Little Stint 3 around the scrape
Grey Plover- 2 on the estuary shelf
Golden Plover 1000+
Lapwing 3000+
Dunlin 800+
Peregrine 1
Tack Piece
Wigeon 2600 flushed by Peregrine to estuary
Shovleler 80
Teal 300
Black-tailed Godwit 60
Redshank 36
E. White-fronted Goose flock hidden in Goose House field.
Zeiss Hide
Bittern- stalking voles out in in the field at 1000am. S end of field.
Teal 800
Crane 2 GCP nest building
Cetti's Warbler singing
Rushy
Bewick's Swan 130 at roost
Pochard 280
Pintail 150
South Lake
Great Crested Grebe 1
Oystercatcher 2
Road fields
Crane- 2 pairs of GCP at 0800