Sightings and news to week ending 24 May 2026
Image- female Bullfinch near Discovery Hide MJM.
Rushy Hide and Peng Observatory
At least four second calendar year Mediterranean Gulls (one pictured below) with the Black-headed Gull colony/roost, a few chicks viewable in nests on the lower pond. The Avocets have 37 occupied nest sites.
Tack Piece
Two drake and a duck Teal, 27 drake Gadwall, the buff/black breeding plumage male Ruff, a Dunlin came in early morning, circled but left, drake Pochard on the scrape. Over high tide a flock of 104 Ringed Plover, 94 Dunlin, a Sanderling and 2cy Curlew Sandpiper fed on the central flood.
Estuary Tower
Dark-bellied Brent goose on the Dumbles foreshore, around 18 small waders- Dunlin/Ringed Plover and a gathering of Lesser and Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls, a Common Gull flew through to Tack Piece. Cranes in the fields to the north including the pair with two chicks. Brown Hare on the Dumbles.
Top New Piece
Five Lapwing, pair of Oystercatcher, Crane, four Roe Deer.
