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Today's sightings

Peregrine Falcon at Slimbridge taken by remote camera trap. (Archive Picture)
Peregrine Falcon at Slimbridge taken by remote camera trap. (Archive Picture)

Holden Tower

Sightings include...a Peregrine on lookout from the driftwood, a party of 6 Lapwing with a further 6 looking very territorial, one male in display flight near the scrape. 18 Great Black-backed Gull on the foreshore, 4 Greylag and 20 Canada Geese with c40 Shelduck. A male Stonechat on the Middle Point fence. A single Crane (Buttercup) near the reedy pool where 100+ Wigeon, 2 Little Grebe, 6 Gadwall and 5 Tufted Duck could be seen.

Tack Piece

100 European and 5 Greenalnd White-fronted Geese, 200 Wigeon and 30 Shoveler. Little Egret and 1 Lapwing.

Rushy Pen

2 Greater Scaup among the 70 Pochard and 140 Tufted Duck, 7 Gadwall, 3 Shoveler and 30 Teal.

Zeiss Hide

17 Avocet on the flood and islands, 3 Snipe, 30 Lapwing, 20 Dunlin and 2 Oystercatcher feeding in the cut rush areas. 350 Wigeon on the flashes.

Kingfisher Hide

1 Golden Plover, 60 Lapwing, 5 Redshank and 70 Dunlin feeding on the Bottom New Piece

Road fields

2 Raven at 0800

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