Today's sightings
Holden Tower/Tack Piece
Golden Plover, Dunlin and Lapwing flocks have fluctuated troughout the day. N counts made but plover species present in the many thousands, the Dunlin in hundreds. A very low high tide this afternoon meant that not all birds came in from the estuary.
Pink-footed Goose - adult with 31 White-fronted Geese on the Tack Piece but also visited Top New Piece and Dumbles with Greylag. The first winter bird was with Greylag on the Tack Piece and fields N of there.
Bewick's Swan 28 on site, seen on Tack Piece and Rushy.
Little Stint 2 on the Dumbles
Raven 2 on Tack Piece
Ruff 7+
Black-tailed Godwit 60
Teal 300
Spotted Redshank 1
Redshank 8
Chiffchaff 5 came through with a tit flock around 1230
Zeiss Hide
Green-winged Teal drake
Teal 800
Redshank 9
Spotted Redshank 1
Black-tailed Godwit 200
Dunlin 40
Shoveler 154 (217 from the hides today)
South Lake
Shoveler 40+
Rushy
Pochard 100+
Pintail 60+
