News and sightings to week ending 27 July
Image- Little Egrets on the Lower Pond from Rushy Hide- MJM
*Note that there has been no sign of the White spotted Bluethroat since early last week*
Monday 21 July 2025
Top New Piece
Bittern again from Vand de Bovenkamp Hide, six Cattle Egret, Pink-footed Goose with Canada/Greylag flock, Common Sandpiper on a post, 2 Green Sandpiper, 6 Dunlin, Snipe, Avocet, Redshank, 3 Ruff, 98 Lapwing, 36 Teal + Shelducks, Gadwalls and Mallards
Kingfisher Hide
7 Cranes on the Four Score Ground wheat stubble.
Middle Point
Three Little ringed Plover on the drier mud to SW of the point, (the Tack piece trio on an outing). The juvenile Mediterranean Gull again among the 100s of gulls, Greenshank, 35 Dunlin, 7 Little Egret + Shelducks, Oystercatchers and Curlews S and W of the point, 8 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret and 50+ Avocet in the heat haze to the N of the point.
Tack Piece
17 Green Sandpiper, 2 Lapwing.
Long Ground Pool
Green Sandpiper. Pill Box Pool- Green Sandpiper.
South Lake
Ruff and Redshank among the Black-tailed Godwits, Common Sandpiper, broods of Avocets, newly hatched Little Grebe chick with parents on deep lake + a raft of Pochard, Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Shoveler and Teal. Tundra Bean Goose with the Greylags.
Rushy Hide/Peng Observatory
14 Little Egret, 6 Redshank, Kingfisher, Snipe, new brood of Tufted Duck.
Grounds
We still have singing Song Thrush, Blackcaps and Greenfinch with Blackbird singing yesterday.
