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Today's sightings-Yet more Wigeons!

Hybrid drake American Wigeon X Eurasian Wigeon on the Tack Piece JSLees

Amazingly we now have a new drake American Wigeon x Eurasian Wigeon hybrid to go with a female American Wigeon, 2500 Eursian Wigeon and one leucistic Eurasian Wigeon!

The Holden Tower

American Wigeon 1 First winter female till mid-day then flew towards Tack Piece
Wigeon 300 Including leucistic female
Tundra Bean Goose 3- Showing very well again
White-fronted Goose 224 -Includes at least 20 new birds that have arrived overnight
Barnacle Goose 140
Egyptian Goose 1
Shelduck 80
Golden Plover 700
Lapwing 1600
Dunlin 500
Ruff 3
Curlew 40
Peregrine 2
Buzzard 4

Short-eared Owl 3 Flushed oout by the tide at Midde Point fence line.

The Tack Piece

American Wigeon x Eurasian Wigeon Hybrid 1 male
Pintail 250
Wigeon 1100
Teal 550
Shoveler 30
Snipe 4
Lapwing  1200
Redshank 40
Common Crane 4 (GCP) late pm

Entrance Pond

Kingfisher 1
Grey Heron 1
Water Vole 2

Fox 1
Roe Deer 1

The Kingfisher Hide

Bittern 1 seen in the afternoon

The Zeiss Hide

Little Egret 4
Grey Heron 1
Water Rail 1
Black-tailed Godwit 90
Lapwing 700
Teal 650

Grounds

Lesser Redpoll 20
Siskin 6
Jackdaw 7,000 Roosted

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