Today's sightings
Holden Tower
Merlin- female for over an hour this morning
Stonechat female on Middle Point fence
Little Stint 2 around scrape and visiting the Tack Piece
E. White-fronted Geese-220+
Dark-bellied Brent Goose 1
Tundra Bean Goose 1
Wigeon 200
Golden Plover 30
Lapwing 40 still in wintering flock visiting the Bottom New Piece and
12 on breeding territories/nest scraping
Glaucous Gull- seen at 0900 flying upriver and later at 1300 on the sands
Tack Piece
Dunlin 400
Black-tailed Godwit 79 (120+ on site commuting between here/TNP and South Lake) Includes colour ringed bird
Curlew 4
Redshank 10
Ruff 1
Shoveler 30
Peregrine 1 in Turkey Oaks
Crane 3 (GCP) late afternoon
Avocet 2 adults during the morning, they spent the afternoon on South Lake
South Lake
Avocet 2
Great Crested Grebe 2
Kingfisher 1
Kingfisher Hide
Male Kingfisher nest digging
Willow Hide
Redpoll 4
Zeiss Hide
Teal 300
Rushy
Bewick's Swan 7 (pair with 3 cygnets and two single cygnets)
Pochard hybrid male (reminiscent of Redhead)
Pochard 100
Pintail 40
Shelduck 70