Today's sightings-1000's of wintering birds
Holden Tower/Tack Piece
Lots of movement between the above areas.
Peregrine 2
Buzzard 2
Merlin 1 hunting Meadow Pipits
Little Stint 3
Black-tailed Godwit 50 on Tack Piece (few moulting into breeding plumage)
Curlew 40 on the Tack Piece
Redshank 1
Lapwing 2400
Golden Plover 1650 (some in breeding plumage)
Wigeon 1100
Teal 400
Pintail 30
Ferruginous Duck was reported from Holden Tower again today, after a search only the Pochard x Ferruginous seen by staff/vols.
White-fronted Geese- 178 with one adult Pink-footed Goose among them at 1230-1300hrs, flew off N after drinking/bathing.
Knott Hide/viewing slots in the wall
Little Grebe 2
Bullfinch 4
Gadwall 7
Willow Hide
Water Rail 1
Reed Bunting 1
Rushy
Pintail 201
Bewick's Swan 150 at 0815 (still over 200 on site)
Pochard x Ferruginous Duck hybrid male (also from Holden Tower on Tack Piece today)
Shelduck 130
Zeiss Hide
Wigeon 400
Teal 450
Cetti's Warbler 1 calling
Kestrel 1
Avocet 1
Oystercatcher 2
Kingfisher Hide
Bullfinch 6
South Lake
Cormorant 10
Great Crested Grebe 1
Dunlin 30
Oystercatcher 2
Tufted Duck 23
