Sightings and news to week ending 9 August 2026
Image - Green Sandpiper, Robbie Garnett Hide (MJM)
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Monday 3 August
Middle Point
Moulting adult Black Tern resting on the mud+ 400 Black-headed Gulls but has moved, 3 Little-ringed Plover and 3 Dunlin to South, 24 Ringed Plover and 7 Dunlin, Great Egret, 2 Little Egrets to North.
Tack Piece
Juvenile Wood Sandpiper, 7 Green Sandpiper, juvenile Greenshank, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, juvenile Little-ringed Plover, 3 Lapwing, 2 juvenile Avocet.
Top New Piece
Three Little-ringed Plover, 2 Sanderling among the 112 Dunlin but former headed to the Severn, juvenile Wood Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Avocet, 19 Lapwing, Little Egret, 63 Teal, 1 Snipe, Reed Warblers.
South Lake
Little-ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, 65 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Ruff, 3 Redshank, 9 Lapwing, 70 Gadwall, 20 Teal, 20 Black-headed Gull.
Rushy Hide
Five Redshank, 3 Spotted Redshank, 2 juvenile Greenshank, 25 Black-tailed Godwit, Little Grebe, flocks of Gadwall and Teal.
Estuary Tower
Adult Yellow-legged Gull on the Severn and both Lesser Whitethroat and Willow Warbler in the bushes below the tower. A few Yellow Wagtails following the cattle
