Today's sightings- another hint of migration
Holden Tower
Big tides and a very strong N wind battered the Dumbles shoreline. Very heavy overnight rain has flooded the fields to full extent. Higher tides forecasted until the weekend.
2 Red Knot (non-breeding plumaged) among the 300 Dunlin that fed around the scrape. A small party of 12 Golden Plover were also present as well as 40 Barnacle and 30 Canadad Geese. 8 Great Black-backed Gull roosted.
Red Knot and 2 Dunlin
Tack Piece
109 European and 5 Greenland White-fronted Geese remain as well as 100 Wigeon.
South Lake
Bar-tailed and 130 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Oystercatcher, 13 Avocet on the wader scrape. A female Greater Scaup was among 40 Pochard and 2 Great Crested Grebe.
Rushy Pen
One Greater Scaup female with 30 Pochard and 50 Pintail.
Pintail- Image by M.J.McGill
Zeiss Hide and South Finger
Apologies but closed during the worst of the gale period today for tree safety reasons.
2 Avocet, 150 Wigeon and 50 Dunlin were on the floods.
