New-in Spotted Redshanks and Pintail
Top New Piece
Two 'new-in' juvenile Spotted Redshank (four on site today), 5 juvenile Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 420 Teal, 20 Wigeon, 12 Shoveler and 1 Pintail.
Bottom New Piece
Pair of Cranes.
Pill Box Pool (from Knott Hide and Estuary Tower)
Juvenile islandica Black-tailed Godwit, Little Egret and 7 Teal. Tack Piece- 4 Yellow Wagtail, juvenile White Wagtail and 15 Pied Wagtail, 32 Teal, 8 Gadwall, 3 Lapwing and a few Linnets.
Martin Smith Hide
Great White Egret and 2 Wigeon among the ducks.
Rushy Hide
Eight Lapwing, 2 Avocet, 15 Redshank, adult Spotted Redshank, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Wigeon, 2 Pintail, 55 Gadwall and 35 Teal
South Lake
Eleven adult Ruff +up to 10 juvenile Ruff but they are mobile, 4 Green Sandpiper, 73 Black-tailed Godwit, adult Spotted Redshank, 143 Lapwing, 1 Avocet, 5 Shoveler, 145 Black-headed Gull, 32 Starling foraging, Little Grebe, 81 Teal, 32 Gadwall, drake Pochard, 10 Pied Wagtails on the mudflats.
Middle Point
Two Greenshank (in the creeks and crater pools either side of the point), 6 Little Egret, 200+ distant small waders, 124 Shelduck with 8 Pintail and 7 Teal feeding with them and another flock of 20+ Pintail flew in. Marsh Harrier over fields to the North of Shepherds Hut Hide.
