Sightings and news to week ending 15 June
Thursday 12 June
Top New Piece
Pair of Common Terns, 3 Cattle Egret.
South Lake
Spoonbill
Middle Point
Male White-spotted Bluethroat.
Dumbles
14 GBB Gull, 6 Curlew and 2 Ringed Plover over the tide.
Wednesday 11 June
Zeiss Hide
1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Spoonbill, 3 Avocet, 12 Shelduck, 5 Lapwing with 1 chick
South Lake
2 Common Tern, 16 Redshank, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 168 Avocet, 35 Gadwall, Shelduck, Mallard and Mute families, 39 Coot, and 2 Oystercatcher. Common Tern seen again at 14:23.
Rushy Lake
Mediterranean Gull, Little Egret, Shelduck families, Tufted Duck family, and 48 Avocet
Decoy Hide
Kingfisher spotted briefly
Kingfisher Hide
Little Grebe and male Kingfisher
Middle Point
Buzzard, male White-spotted Bluethroat singing and doing display flights, 1 Kingfisher in rhine behind the Shepherd's Hut, Sedge and Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting too
Nuthatch seen and heard in trees above the Goose hut by the Shepherd's hut at 11:20
Robbie Garnett Hide
Blackcap, Grey Heron, 14 Shelduck, 1 Oystercatcher and 32 Gadwall
Tuesday 10 June
Middle Point
The White-spotted Bluethroat was again showing well but very mobile about the point.
Top New Piece
Three Cattle Egret, Spoonbill (was on South Lake earlier), 2 Oystercatcher, 16 Lapwing, 8 Redshank + juveniles, pair of Shoveler, 20 Gadwall + brood of 1, broods of 2, 4 and 10 Mallard, Shelducks, singing Reed Buntings and Reed Warblers.
Middle Point/Estuary Tower
34 Dunlin, 12 Ringed Plover and 6 Sanderling on the Severn mud.
Tack Piece
Lapwing and 3 Oystercatcher.
Car Park
Cuckoo audible. One singing regularly at South Finger.
South Lake
Eight Black-tailed Godwit, 14 Redshank, 130 Avocet, 3m and 2 female Teal, broods of 3, 3 and 5 Mallard.
Hogarth Hide
Duck Gadwall from bridge with 8 ducklings, broods of 3 and 3 Tufted Duck with another 5 in the back ditch.
Monday 9 June
Middle Point
Male White-spotted Bluethroat still singing + 4 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin and 3 Sanderling on the Severn mud.
Estuary Tower
Brood of Shelduck with 2 on Long Ground Pool.
Top New Piece
Fox picking up a carcass and 'decoying' Spoonbill, Shelducks, 41 Gadwall + brood of 1, pair of Shoveler, broods of 10 and 2 Mallard, 26 Lapwing and 5 Avocet.
Brood of 6 Gadwall from South Finger viewing screen
South Lake- Hogarth Hide
Broods of 8 and 6 Gadwall on the rhine from the bridge + brood of Shelduck and Grey Heron.
Broods of 3 and 6+ Tufted Duck, pair of Avocet, and 22 Gadwall on duck marsh.
South Lake from Discovery Hide
Seven Black-tailed Godwit, Little Grebe with chick, 3 Cormorant, 14 Redshank, 6 Oystercatcher, 146 Avocets (25 nests), 58 Gadwall, 3 m and f Teal, 2 drake and a duck Shoveler, 120 Black-headed Gulls and 46 Coot.
Rushy Hide
3cy Mediterranean Gull, Seventeen Gadwall, 21 Avocet (8 nests), pair of Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Redshank, brood of 4 Tufted Ducks broods of 13, 11 and 9 Shelduck.
Tack Piece
Great Egret, 2 Kingfishers, 4 Oystercatcher, 2 Lapwing, 2 Gadwall.
