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WeBS Count

Water levels have improved and are continuing to drop, but the frozen conditions we are forecast will mean that every available bit of open, fresh water will be a lifeline to our birds, wader numbers may drop as the ground freezes but wildfowl will remain around the pools.

Wigeon - 5340
Mallard - 955
Teal - 796
Pochard - 449
Tufted duck - 395
Pintail - 89
Shoveler - 44
Gadwall - 6
Shelduck - 6
Egyptian goose - 2

Lapwing - 125
Black-tailed godwit - 61
Snipe - 25
Dunlin - 11
Redshank - 1

Marsh harrier - 1
Barn owl - 1
Kestrel - 1

Skylark - 56
Fieldfare - 28
Meadow pipit - 6

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