Sightings- Yet another 20 species of wader day!
Mediterranean Gull- juvenile just starting moult to first winter hence the few grey mantle feathers.
Image by MJMcGill
South Lake
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
if not viewable from South Lake Obs try Hogarth Hide especially afternoons.
Black-tailed Godwit 187
Redshank 74
Green Sandpiper 2
Shoveler 56
Mediterranean Gull juv in the afternoon
Holden Tower
Dumbles- the area of saltmarsh grassland beyond the seawall
Curlew 300
Whimbrel 1
Bar-tailed Godwit 2
Ruff 5 juveniles
Greenshank 2
Lapwing 200+
Little ringed Plover 2 flew over one feeding in scrape near tower
Peregrine 2 hunting all the birds mid-morning
Marsh Harrier 1
Black-tailed Godwit 2
Saltmarsh shelf/Edge of Dumbles at high tide
Dunlin 70
Ringed Plover 48
Red Knot 5 juveniles
Tower
Chiffchaff 24
Willow Warbler 2
Little Egret 15 in the distant Purton roost, edge of estuary
Wheatear 1 Middle Point fence
Zeiss Hide
Dunlin 10
Ringed Plover 8
Greenshank 5 flushed by Peregrine and went out to estuary creeks
Marsh Harrier was hunting here and the Dumbles
Wood Sandpiper 1 briefly, calling all the time
Green Sandpiper 3
Snipe 30 in flight
Teal 456
Tack Piece/Robbie Garnett Hide
Wood Sandpiper 1
Green Sandpiper 6
Rushy
Green Sandpiper 4
Black-tailed Godwit 33
Other
Two unusually late broods of Tufted Duck, one South Lake and one Long Ground Pool. At least 40 Chiffchaff today.
