Today's sightings
Holden Tower
Swallow 20
Peregrine 1 female
Dunlin 70 along shore
Little Stint 2 with Dunlin
Sanderling 2
Knot 1 along shore
Redshank 1 along shore
Ruff 12 on the floods
Lapwing 90
Ringed Plover 16
Golden Plover 35
Barnacle Goose 120+
Wigeon 400 on the estuary saltmarsh
Little Egret 4
Kestrel 1
Buzzard 1
Late news for yesterday- 2 E. White-fronted Geese and 4 D.B. Brent Goose present later in the day. Ruddy Shelduck on the estuary with 140 Shelduck
South Lake
Black-tailed Godwit 26
Redshank 1
Teal 130
Tufted Duck 62
Greylag Goose 220 (Pink-footed Goose still here yesterday)
Pochard 2
Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece
Spotted Redshank 1
Greenshank 2
Redshank 40
Teal 560 (numbers increase during the day)
Pintail 36
Shoveler 13
Pochard 5
Tufted Duck 14
Wigeon 12
Mallard 120
Rushy
Disturbance due to tree coppicing/pollarding today, sorry.
Martin Smith Hide
Little Grebe 1