Today's sightings-Festival of Birds-Day 1
Holden Tower
A very high tide flooded the Dumbles, this should produce some great birding as waders pick over the silt and duck utilise the floods. A dog appeared around the Holden Tower which caused disturbance for a while as it was chasing Roe Deer.
3000+ Golden Plover, 1000+ Dunlin and 6000+ Lapwing were highly mobile between the Top New Piece, Dumbles, Tack Piece and 100 Acre.
Dark-bellied Brent Goose 1
Peregrine 1
Curlew 300
Greylag 3
Shelduck 45
Tack Piece
Ruff 2+
Black-tailed Godwit 10+
Wigeon 1200
Pintail 120
Bewick's Swan 30
E. White-fronted Goose 170
wader flocks- see above
Zeiss Hide
Avocet 4
Teal 400
Wigeon 340
wader flocks- see above
A Merlin flew high past the restaurant toward the Tack Piece.
