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Today's sightings
Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece Little ringed Plover 5- at least 4 juvenile Dunlin 20 Redshank 1 Snipe 2 Ruff 2 female Lapwing 100 Avocet 33 fledged/adults and three chicks. A flock of 28 appeared to have been feeding on the estuary and arrived over the high tid
15 July 2014
Today's sightings
Record count of 50 Avocet today! all are breeding birds, see below... Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece over high tide Avocet 33 adult/fledged and three small chicks Ruff- 2 adult male and adult reeve Black-tailed Godwit 13 Lapwing 109 Little-ringed Plover 4 juven
14 July 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Hen Harrier- male flew over reserve, circled for ten minutes or so before drifting off S 1125-1135hrs High tide-Dumbles edge Curlew 150 Mediterranean Gull adult breeding plumage Yellow-legged Gull 3 adults Great Black-backed Gull 20 Ringed Pl
13 July 2014
Todays Sightings
Rushy Five adult Avocet, 2 fully grown young and 2 newly hatched young all very active. Robbie Garnett Dominated by the Green Sandpipers, there were 18 here this morning. No sign of the Blue Headed Wagtails but two Little Egret were very close. Holden Tow
12 July 2014
Todays Sightings
Rushy Avocet 8 Green Sandpiper 1 Sedge Warbler 2 Robbie Garnett Hide Little Egret 2 Green Sandpiper 18 Mediteranean Gull 1 ad Black Headed Gull 90 Holden Tower Goldfinch 40 Curlew 35 Zeiss Hide Avocet 29 Redshank 18 (7 juvs) Dunlin 16 Black Tailed Godwit
11 July 2014
Today's Sightings
Zeiss Hide Avocet- 25 Redshank- 27 Shelduck- 12 Teal- 34 Reed Warbler- 3 Lapwing- 1 Kingfisher Hide Little Grebe- 1 Rushy Green Sandpiper- 1 Avocet- 5 Oystercatcher- 1 Tufted Duck brood- 6 young Martin Smith Little Egret- 1 White Throat- 1 Robbie Garnett
10 July 2014
Today's Sightings
South Lake Shelduck- 10 Tufted Duck- 1 Redshank- 45 Lapwing- 28 Black- tailed Godwit- 115 Great Crested Grebe- 3 Common Crane- 2 (flying over) Common Tern- 2 Spoonbill- 1 Zeiss Hide Shelduck- 16 Avocet- 26 Grey Heron- 1 Lapwing- 7 Dunlin- 12 Reed Warbler-
9 July 2014
Today's Sightings
South Lake Tufted Duck- 3 Lapwing- 38 Black-tailed Godwit- 114 Redshank- 34 Great- Crested grebe- 1 Spoonbill-1 Ringed Plover- 2 Zeiss Hide Heron- 2 Avocet- 35 Shelduck- 13 Lapwing- 11 Reed Warbler- 2 Black- tailed Godwit- 15 Martin Smith Hide Wigeon- 2 R
8 July 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Little-ringed Plover 2 juvenile Swallow 40 (30 juveniles) Chiffchaff 5 juvenile in hedge Reed Warbler 3 juvenile in hedge Tack Piece No sightings of Blue-headed Wagtails again on morning round, female likely to be incubating now and male avoi
7 July 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Yellow Wagtail 1 Turnstone 1 adult at high tide Curlew 60 Little ringed Plover 2 juvenile Leucistic Meadow Pipit along Summer Walk (white body, wings and tail, pale brown head) Lesser Whitehroat 1 Summer Walk hedge Redstart male Summer walk f
6 July 2014
Today's sightings
The Tack Piece Blue-headed Wagtail 2 pair still nest building Green Sandpiper 10 Avocet 2 The Zeiss Hide Avocet 13 Black-tailed Godwit 20 Little-ringed plover 1 Redshank 18 Shoveler 1 female with 2 young Little Egret 1 The Rushy Avocet 9 Green Sandpiper 3
5 July 2014
Today's sightings
The Big Pen Common Sandpiper 1 The Tack Piece Blue-headed Wagtail 2 Little-ringed Plover 1 Green Sandpiper 15 Wigeon 1 Grey Heron 3 The South Lake Kingfisher 1 Shoveler 18 Redshank 59 Black-tailed Godwit 57 Lapwing 70 The Zeiss Hide Avocet 21 Lapwing 25 G
4 July 2014
Today's sightings
The Tack Piece Blue-headed Wagtail 2 still nest building. Green Sandpiper 14 The Holden Tower Little-ringed Plover 1 Green Sandpiper 3 Curlew 1 The Zeiss Hide Green Sandpiper 4 Redshank 8 Avocet 9 The Rushy Avocet 8 Green Sandpiper 3 The Car Park Cuckoo 1
3 July 2014
Today's sightings
The Rushy Ruff 1 male (Mobile seen from 3 hides) Avocet 9 Green Sandpiper 1 Little-ringed Plover 2 The Tack Piece Blue-headed Wagtail 2 Green Sandpiper 16 Ruff 1 (Same male) The Holden Tower Green Sandpiper 2 The South Finger Cuckoo 1 The South Lake Black
2 July 2014
Today's sightings
Tack Piece/Robbie Garnett Hide 'Blue-headed' Wagtail-pair nest building, often visit the scrape edge Little ringed Plover juvenile Green Sandpiper 12 Shelduck brood of x5 South Lake Avocet 6 Redshank 65 Black-tailed Godwit 48 Oystercatcher 4 Green Sandpip
1 July 2014