Today's sightings- Sunshine with a -3 start to the day!
As usual with freezing weather the shallow water areas have froze this morning, it should thaw through the day encouraging birds to return to the field and scrapes from the estuary.
Holden Tower
Bullfinch- 2 feeding on the buds
Avocet 2 on the scrape
Oystercatcher 2
Wigeon 300 on the scrape, 300+ on the estuary.
Buzzard 3
E. White-fronted Goose 132
most were on the estuary at 0930 the rest on the Dumbles. They began the day in the Four Score field South of the Kingfisher Hide.
Tack Piece
Greenland White-fronted Geese 5- best viewed from Holden Tower
Dunlin 300
Golden Plover 80
Lapwing 400
Wigeon 500
Teal 150
South Lake
Wader scrape frozen over
Ruddy Shelduck female
Pochard 130
Tufted Duck 220
Gadwall 16
Little Grebe 1
Lapwing 120
Black-tailed Godwit 120
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Rushy Pen
Bewick's Swan 100
Greater Scaup-2 1st winter females
Pochard 23 males and 16 females
Tufted Duck 70
Pintail 80
Shelduck 70
Kingfisher Hide
Reed Bunting two singing male
Little Grebe 1
Great-spotted Woodpecker drumming male
Zeiss Hide
Reed Bunting- male singing
Lapwing 110
