Lone Bewick's Swan
Around midday we picked up a Bewick's Swan arriving from the NE over the Rushy visitor centre, it circled a few times before dropping into the Rushy. It's a bird that is known to our researchers and is called Bubbly.
The Dumbles
Good to see Golden Plover numbers increasing, a flock of over 800 settled on the Dumbles with another flock circling. Adult Dark-bellied Brent and 8 Pink-footed Geese.
South Lake
200 Knot, 332 Shoveler, 210 Teal, 7 Cormorant, 12 Pochard, 6 Pintail, 8 Gadwall, 100 Knot, 1 Dunlin, 450 Black-tailed Godwit, 20 Ruff, 110 Lapwing and 4 Snipe.
Rushy Hide
Counts of 61 Pintail and 81 Pochard among the 100s of duck, look out for the Pochard x Ferruginous hybrid. Again no Bewick's Swans this morning
Tack Piece
200 Wigeon, 120 Teal, 40 Lapwing and 20+ Russian White-fronted Geese with the Greylag Geese in the NW flood channel
Top New Piece
1st winter Spotted Redshank, 22 Redshank, Avocet, 66 Dunlin, 34 Pintail and 700 Teal.
